What is a Wholistic Health Practitioner?
Leah Rose Duke - Wholistic Health Practitioner
The term “Whole”- istic refers to you as a “Whole” person; and “Wholistic Health” reflects the Mental, Physical, Spiritual, and Emotional factors that are integrated to create balance and health in your life. In the modern world of today, you go to the doctor when you are sick, and they will prescribe you a “medicine” and when you take that medicine, your symptoms go away. Even though you feel better for the time being, what you are doing is only working on the symptom, and that does not help you in the long run.
I am not knocking Western Medicine. We have come a long way, especially in the way of treating acute injuries or immediate trauma, like getting into a car accident or breaking your leg. But for more chronic illnesses, like Cancer, Bronchitis, Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome the physical symptom is often a sign of a something much, much deeper that needs to be addressed.
For example, say you are a person who suffers from chronic headaches. You go to the doctor’s office for these headaches and the doctor prescribes you pain killers for pain relief. You go home and begin to treat yourself to an pill or two every time you have a headache. You may be treating the pain, but you are still getting the headaches and taking medications, which can suppress your immune system and impair your own bodies ability to heal itself.
What if I told you that you that you could be pain free without popping any pills?
A Wholistic Health Practitioner can offer you a Personalized Wellness Program which will include but definitely not limited to: Massage Therapy, Bodywork, Nutrition, Exercise, and Meditation Practices.
Practitioners may also combine Detoxification, Breathwork and other alternative healing therapies to assist clients in creating optimal health. Most Wholistic Health Practitioners will offer a variety of their own specialties, as we all have our different callings to help others.
So, if you came to me for your Headaches, we would tailor a session distinctly for your needs. I would check in with you about your diet and water intake. We would find the trigger and stressors so we can knock them out. If it is diet, then we will tailor a cleanse or eliminate certain foods for awhile. If it is from your tense shoulders, we will give you a head neck and shoulders massage, maybe some deep tissue in your trapezius muscles to loosen up your back and neck. And if it is due to too much stress, we may use breathing and visualization techniques during our session.
What is most important to me, is that you leave with the tools to get rid of these headaches.
This is just a small example of what a WHP can help you with.
Wholistic Health Practitioners are educators and counselors. We embrace the belief that “disease” of the body reflects Mental, Physical, Spiritual, Emotional or Environmental imbalance.
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True healing is an internal process where individuals search for and resolve the conflict within. Each person’s healing experience is uniquely personal and profound. Working with clients in this capacity requires great sensitivity, knowledge, skill, and a deep belief in the natural healing powers of the human body. Wholistic Healing provides not only the skills, knowledge and understanding required by clients to guide their bodies to optimal health, but also allows them to realize and integrate each their own innate sensitivity and wisdom.
I (Leah Rose Duke) am a Wholistic Health Practitioner and Wholistic Massage Therapist that received my WHP certification in 2007 through the SkyHill Institute in Petaluma. I am educated and well versed in a variety of lifestyle applications and techniques including Massage Therapy and Bodywork, Nutrition and Detoxification, Energy and Chakra Healing, Emotional Cleansing, Group and Personal dynamics, Breathwork, Meditation and Shamanic Life Coaching.
For more information or to schedule a session with me, please call 650-892-5489 or email me at LeahRoseDuke@gmail.com
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