40-Year Holistic Health Practitioner: Bridging Herbs, Yoga, Nursing & Natural Medicine

Words by Annmaree
I have called myself a holistic Healthcare Practitioner for nearly 40 years.
Commencing with herbs and yoga interest and studies, I then reluctanctly started studied nursing from the mid 80s from the ground up, EN, then EEN, then RN mainly for patient contact experience. Nursing has only a fraction of my healthcare interest, the allopathic perspective has given my own clinical and academic work a greater perspecrive on healthcare analysis, hence the term ‘holistic’ is my emphasis. In addition, nursing was the last thing i did as a foundation, and I have respected the nursing profession for decades, however, my nursing studies gave me a stepping stone to further expand my studies in natural lifestyle and medicine that included:. yoga and herbs, nutrient, massage , and a university Masters degree in biology of aging, stress physiology/management, health education/promotion and more.
The main point here is my primary focus always was, always will be holistic health.
Hence, I have practised as a holistic health practitioner for nearly 40 years.
Prior to the scamdemic beginning I had or was clinically practising, teaching yoga classes, teaching degree students Health Science subjects, nursing and involved in further studying as I have continued to upgraded my studies for decades. My clinic work never ceased.
This particular course at the time was extremely important to me as cancer is both a personal and professional interest of importance. The course by a renowned Australian herbalist Prof. Kerry Bone, called ‘ functional herbal therapy for cancer’, I had won a grant through Australian Traditional Medicine Society ( ATMS) to do. On completion I produced a schematic that was viewed by Dr Joachim Fluhrer who invited myself to speak at an international cancer conference in 2020. Whilst preparing my talk I was continually receiving journal studies on a novel coronavirus that stopped the planet.
All i can say here is OMG , what a con and i knew it before the hype exploded into the ether.
You see my first herbalist teacher Simon Schot back in 1983 said…” you cant catch a cold!.” So for myself I knew the hype was misleading. Two jobs I let go of plus an all expenses OS trip, nothing was worth risking my health for an experiment so I maintained my stance .
I had also been let go from the hospital I worked at for 19 years in 2016 because I refused the Hep B.
Not anti . Just prochoice.

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