"One thing I never lost was a deeper sense that love was always present."

Acceptance and the Integrated-Alternative 

"As he rested on a set of wooden stairs at the Mesh Hall in the Northern Vancouver Island, six-year-old Kiem placed his young hands on the weathered back in front of him and felt, for the first time, his natural ability to see into the body and intuit the transfer of energy, and tension.”

Whether this heightened ability was an innate gift or an approach to connection that differed from the traditional, the result remains awe-inspiring. The desire to "integrate the alternative” is extremely meaningful to your childhood story.

What’s fascinating is your identification with dyslexia. The reluctance of the brain to separate or distinguish words from one another strikes me as a powerful metaphor for emotional intelligence (the kind talked about in spiritual "academia" or the cutting-edge conversations on 'the hard problem' of consciousness, as a start) and supports the idea that one would arrive at a career that focuses on non-duality: the merging, blending and connecting of ideas, modalities and people, rather than the separation of them. 

As a natural-born healer, sensing and feeling energy on a much deeper level than most, you are prime to lead the conversation about how much protection is required to maintain safety for healers, helpers and even the healing modalities themselves. Moreover, the blend of these two experiences is what creates the space for both protection and possibility, which could be described simply as "options outside the traditional." 

It’s easy to imagine that child may seek to investigate modalities in their healing journey that validate the energetic and emotional experience in the mind-body (psyche & soma) instead of relying on words or traditional frameworks for learning (i.e. the school system). 

Learning to Fly [again]

Is there a pre-pain state in everybody? Does every human (or every client) know or remember the state of pre-trauma, pre-injury, pre-wings-clipped? These questions are vital to our understanding of how your pursuit of health (and love) takes shape in the realm of your career and business. 

Imagine that there is a memory rooted deeper than science tells us - one that reaches deeper into our connectedness to nature - that you have been able to access and one that psychedelics seem to offer the avenue to. Your birth story is important here as well. However, there may be something more profound in you that connects you not to who you are or where you came from but to who you really are, and where you really came from. That, I believe, can be defined as love.

In the business's scope, we define this as a state of health (joy, vigour, vibrancy, connectedness). To inspire in others the belief that challenges are not barriers; rather, they are lessons, is the foundation of your work. The proof is in the lifelong resiliency you have shown, despite tremendous personal and professional obstacles. 

Dean Ornish is an excellent example of someone who talks to the power of love in reversing poor health or injury, in much the same way you know it as a remembrance in your own life — a circling back to the time before you knew pain.

But, you have to believe it's there and also want to pursue it: this is what I define as "Health Perseverance" — and maybe it's simply a desire to "make it stop" or "make the pain stop." It can perhaps remain a somewhat indefinable quality, too, which is your magic. To quote you: 

"One thing I never lost was a deeper sense that love was always present."

Its possible that you are that love, and that love (or health-seeking) is your purpose. You were, to be slightly cliche, made to fly. Love, or health, was always available. How did you know? And how do we inspire this in your customer?

"I hope to inspire others to continually pursue a state of good health, with greater love and through new levels of consciousness - not merely in the absence of illness, injury, or trauma, but, instead, because of it. 

The radical acceptance of our traumas and challenges, paired with a deeper knowing that we can overcome them if we are willing to persevere and integrate new modalities, is the key to real success and true wellbeing. 

As a child who witnessed too early in life the devastating effects of mental health deterioration on marriages, children, families and entire communities, it is my wish that this Center can act as a safe place for clients to move beyond their suffering and, in some way, find a return to themselves, to nature and their interconnectedness with all things. If we can move past the barriers in our psyche, and the barriers seen somatically, we may have access to the joy of 'conscious' living."

What we seek, we are. And who we are, we seek.

- Poet and Writer