Due to a congenital spinal problem and a chronic
illness since age 19, my health had seriously deteriorated by my
mid-20’s. I was seeing several specialists who finally told
me there was nothing more they could do for me. It was during this
struggle with my health that a friend introduced me to homeopathy.
I credit my homeopathic physician with saving my life, but at the
time I had no plans to give up a fun, exiting and lucrative profession
as VP of a small software company to become a homeopath. Well, as
my mom always said, “Man plans and God laughs.” When
my homeopath decided to retire, I panicked. When I expressed my
concerns, he said not to worry, that he was prepared to train me.
I figured I’d better take him up on it, since, if I was studying
with him, I could pick his brain about my own condition. Well, I
discovered I had a passion for it that surpassed even that for computers,
and within a few years was seeing clients on my own. I spent all
of my spare time for the next ten years under his tutelage and decided
that when I retired, I would become a full time homeopath.
After moving to the mid-west, a physician friend asked me to join
his holistic health clinic as a homeopath.
I was trained in classical homeopathy by G. Kent Smith, M.D., of
Huntington Beach, CA. Dr. Smith’s father, Dwight Smith, M.D.,
was a friend and personal student of James Tyler Kent. In addition,
I have attended numerous seminars and workshops with other well
known homeopaths. I have additional class work from the California
State Homeopathic Medical Society and the International Foundation
for Homeopathy. I am a member of The Friends of the Ohio State Homeopathic
Medical Society, an honorary member of the Ohio State Homeopathic
Medical Society and a practitioner member of The National Center
for Homeopathy.
In my personal life, I’m married to a wonderful man. We have
two adult children, both married and living in other parts of the
country. We have five grandchildren and three cats. We live in a
hundred year old Queen Anne house which we have been renovating.
It’s a money pit, but we love the house, our neighbors and
our neighborhood. My husband and I have been active in the development
of a new school for our community. I’m chairman of the health
and wellness committee and my husband is on the architectural committee.
It will be an arts based Montessori public neighborhood school.
It will be built using sustainable construction methods and be an
example for the future.
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