A Holistic Healthcare Secret in Plain Sight

Let me tell you a secret so well kept in the holistic health community that few of us even know it ourselves

We are taught that everything is interconnected, and then trained to forget all about that, by focusing only on treating individual variables.

A good practitioner is always self made. Let me explain.

Most holistic practitioners don't analyze the body as a whole system. Instead its broken down into pieces and never put back together well enough to paint a full picture. Its really up to the individual's ability to connect all the dots they are left with.

The education system for DCs, RDs, NDs, Nutritionists, etc… is playing off of a deep seated industry-wide imposter syndrome by mirroring the educational format of allopathy. Their curriculums were forcefully standardized over 100 years ago as pharmaceuticals were first created and the profit based allopathic system that was backed by the oil industry took power in government.

There's undeniable benefit from having very similar foundational education on human anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and diagnosis as MDs and PHDs. There's also major drawbacks and we can see them everywhere by just acknowledging the substandard baseline of quality of care across all types of healthcare in America.

Its up to the individual to recognize this and synthesize all the useful information they learn into a working framework for holistic healing, while rejecting the ubiquitous themes of fear-based, authoritative, and disease-focused symptom management.

Some may be triggered by this. I believe they may be thinking more highly of their education than it deserves, without realizing they actually need to give themselves more credit. Every effective practitioner I've ever met owes their ability to their own values, morals, passions, and beliefs for the quality of healing they're able to provide. You ask where the source of their expertise lies, and they have a rich and storied past of extracurricular study that goes far beyond the requirements of whatever license or certification they hold.

Being certified does not make you qualified.

Its all about who you are, not what you are, that makes an effective practitioner - this is also a MAJOR reason to not write off an entire profession if you've had any one or five of these different types of care providers fail you in your journey. Yes, most docs are clueless. Blame the institution, then the individual, and never all people with the same title.