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Oh my goodness, thank you so much for all those kind and inspiring words, Kayla! I love you and your strong spirit so much and am constantly inspired to move forward with my dream because I see you doing it on the daily making real healing art and medicine happen not just for "patients" but for all us healer patients, as well. I hope you know what a force you are and never stop doing you! Once I figure out how to copy my original intro post to the real thread (lol, face palm), I am going to update it to reflect some hard-core transforming I have done over the last week, and I haven't even been actively participating in this group! You were the catalyst to finally help me come into alignment with my dream and purpose! I absolutely LOVE the ideas about retreat medicine you wrote about in your comment up there ^. I am happy to report that I'm 100% in on making my own business/dream happen and am going to be unapologetically my WHOLE self in all I do from here on out. There will be no state hospital or signing up for some job, because I have too much to offer people and feel called to help heal a sick and over-medicated society!

Also, see you in about A WEEK!!! :-D

Love both of these intros above that I just saw!

Kimberly and Kathryn-

Please re-post these as your own unique thread under the Introductions tab so that we can add comments and you can grow your story over the next few weeks.

SO GORGEOUS though, both of you!

Dr. Little - You have TOO MUCH to offer, honestly, and that will be one thing to help you move toward your dream: declutter! You are screaming for it in your post! We can do a little Ayurvedic detox protocol (in fact there is one adapted specifically for us by a former student of Dr. Vasant Lad. https://www.mooncyclemedicine.org/forum/ayurvedic-life-immersion/ayurvedic-life-immersion-instructions Your intention is right on, so if you keep walking bravely forward the path will come to light. I am SO excited for you! Welcome!

Dr. Cranford - My story into medicine is SO similar in that I was TOO YOUNG and then TUNNEL VISION, holy cow! I remember sitting in undergraduate classes with you, and noticing that you *handled* an intensity similar to my own, which is why I was attracted to you. I'm glad we've been friends for so long. You have always been there for me as an example of STANDING UP FOR YOURSELF and DOING THE RIGHT THING. For me the time to walk away for awhile came a bit later, so you literally set the example. YOU CAN STILL BE AN ARTIST. That is YOU! Healing ART. Bring it forward sister. Nothing else will do. Can you reach out to that teacher now? and BABE!!!!! You have been offering your gift since you were a CHILD!!!!!

$450/hour to talk with you virtually and a place for people to make donations to your dream NOW! Did you hear about Dr. Kendra seeing her patient in the middle of the lake?! Lets all get retreat centers and we can co-teach. I'm pretty much ready here. WHERE do you want to be? YOU can be more lucrative than the state hospital. GUARANTEE it! I have clients BEGGING for someone like you. There are therapists in Juneau that charge $600. To talk. No drugs.

Just saying.

LOVE YOU BEAUTIFUL HEALING DOCTORS! Thank you for stepping up and being horizontal mentors to me and others in this group. Let the self-healing and the next step begin!

kimcranford7@gmail.com

1) What inspired you to become a healer?

I officially decided to become a doctor my junior or senior year in high school when the “career counseling” brigade began parading how important finding a path in life was to us unsuspecting 16 and 17 year olds. I now realize that the certainty with which I chose medicine was unnecessary and ultimately unhealthy, but from that day forward I pursued getting into med school with tunnel-vision focus and unwavering determination. For that, I am very proud, as it speaks to my ability to make anything happen that I doggedly pursue. In high school I decided upon “doctor” as my career path because I enjoyed biology, was a very good student, and figured that since I wanted to help people it was a great idea. All the unrealistic encouragement I got from all the adults in my life, none of them doctors who knew what it was actually like, only further consolidated the decision. I’ll never forget the disappointment on my art teacher’s face that she unsuccessfully tried to hide when she knew I would be majoring in some form of biology in college and not art. To this day, I wish I would have listened to her sense that pursuing an artistic path would be a great fit for me.

The good news is that though I now know I don’t want to be a doctor when I grow up (better late than never now that I am one! ;), I do know that I am deep to my core a healer, whether or not I want to be. Since I was little I was an old-soul introvert, and my parents’ adult friends and acquaintances would often approach me and have adult conversations with me, baring their souls to me. It always struck my parents as odd that they would come around a corner and there would be me, a little girl, intently listening to one of their friends blathering on and on. I’ve always been a natural listener and love to hear people’s stories and discover what stirs their souls. This trait lives on in me but is currently subdued and somewhat in hiding, slightly traumatized by the pressures of remaining within the framework of a typical psychiatric visit that has to fit into 30-60 minute appointments including documentation, blah blah blah you all know this theme. My goal is to heal these wounds and see who I am after the stale and suffocating cobwebs of medical training have been brushed away. I miss my natural upbeat curiosity about humans, not “patients” (because really aren’t we all patients?), and the world around me. I want more time for this person to explore and contribute in a more meaningful way. I want to meet people where they are at in a way that is necessary for them to bare themselves to me so that I can help them find the powers they innately possess to heal themselves. If that is on a mountaintop or in their favorite coffee shop or on walks around the lake they love, then that is where I want to hold space with them, not in the confines of a traditional doc-in-a-box office space. Though if this traditional setting is what someone else requires, then that’s fine too.

2) Describe your dream clinic/practice/workspace/job:

My passion regarding human health is steeped in diet and lifestyle. There is so much knowledge about how diet and lifestyle impacts mental health (and all health) that is not being utilized in typical medical care. My dream is to hold monthly retreats to educate people who want to take control of their lives and health, reclaiming their intuitive healing powers as human beings. These retreats would include hands-on learning how to cook a plant-powered diet, yoga, meditation, and lots of education on topics such as the mind/gut connection and how most chronic conditions including many (if not all) m