Naturopathy, QRA, Nutrition, BodyTalk, Reiki, Flower Essences, Essential Oils, & more ...
I qualified as Naturopath a few years ago. Coming from a finance and systems background and studying part time for close to 10 years, I know all about juggling family, home, work - how do we then care for ourself?
I'm continually adding more therapies and tools to my collection, I enjoy learning new things and incorporating them into my treatments. Recently it was the Advanced level of QRA - a form of muscle testing to identify the location of energy blockages and therefore appropriate supplements to personalise the treatment plan - this removes a lot of the guess work from my suggestions.
I've worked with essential oils for a long time, they were brilliant when my children were young! More recently I've been playing with creating essential oil products, protection blends, massage blends, and looking forward to using some beautiful sets of sacred space and Japanese forest blends I found in Australia a few weeks ago.
Homeobotanicals or HB's are a form of homoepathically prepared herbal blends, they allow the creation of a great mixture specifically for any client. With some 60+ blends available in both oral drop form and creams, a mix can be created to cover any need. These are a perfect way to start with many treatment plans as they don't interact with medications and are simple to administer, very affordable too.
I'm now starting to include NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) into sessions, I find that this helps to better understand what's going on emotionally for a client, and provides techniques to better manage many emotional issues. Anxiety, stress, grief, low self esteem, lack of confidence, accepting change, blocks to health, unable to maintain weight loss - its clear that weight loss is as much about emotional stress as it is about food choices and exercise. Therefore its not too great a stretch to imagine that other physical issues may have an emotional component.
I'm continually adding more therapies and tools to my collection, I enjoy learning new things and incorporating them into my treatments. Recently it was the Advanced level of QRA - a form of muscle testing to identify the location of energy blockages and therefore appropriate supplements to personalise the treatment plan - this removes a lot of the guess work from my suggestions.
I've worked with essential oils for a long time, they were brilliant when my children were young! More recently I've been playing with creating essential oil products, protection blends, massage blends, and looking forward to using some beautiful sets of sacred space and Japanese forest blends I found in Australia a few weeks ago.
Homeobotanicals or HB's are a form of homoepathically prepared herbal blends, they allow the creation of a great mixture specifically for any client. With some 60+ blends available in both oral drop form and creams, a mix can be created to cover any need. These are a perfect way to start with many treatment plans as they don't interact with medications and are simple to administer, very affordable too.
I'm now starting to include NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) into sessions, I find that this helps to better understand what's going on emotionally for a client, and provides techniques to better manage many emotional issues. Anxiety, stress, grief, low self esteem, lack of confidence, accepting change, blocks to health, unable to maintain weight loss - its clear that weight loss is as much about emotional stress as it is about food choices and exercise. Therefore its not too great a stretch to imagine that other physical issues may have an emotional component.
Gina Sarten |
Whats important to me?My family are vital to my well-being, but I also know that to be the best for them I have to prioritise myself. How can I care for them if I can't get out of bed because of a migraine. I learned this when my kids were little, putting effort into myself pays off for everyone. I'm far from perfect though, there are plenty of days when I can't manage to cook so reach for takeaways, and my exercise is suffering lately. Its important to learn cause and effect, but keep things in balance - life's about living, not being perfect!
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Why Naturopathy?I've enjoyed working in the finance area, but to be honest its not an area that I find fulfilling. I'm not someone who suffered through life with health issues, except during pregnancy what a shock that was! I was able to manage by modifying diet and exercise, this, combined with wanting to get answers to normal childhood illnesses without needing to visit the doctor, started my journey. A journey I don't expect to complete any time soon!
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