Practitioner Get to Know You Questions

Why did you choose osteopathy as a career choice?

I’ve known since I was 14 that I wanted to help people — I remember saying I wanted to “help people walk again.” That calling led me into healthcare, but I knew early on that medicine wasn’t my path (I’d faint at the sight of blood!). I started searching for alternatives to medicine and found physiotherapy and osteopathy.

Osteopathy I think really chose me — it was third on my list of options. When I received the news I would be training as an osteopath I so upset and decided i’d transfer to my first preference as a physiotherapist as soon as I could. Failing some of my first year subjects meant that I had to step into second year and that when something clicked. I cant even put it into words but the philosophies and pricnciples, resonated so deeply. I felt like I was home.

What do you find most rewarding as an osteopath?
Over time, osteopathy has become much more than a career. It’s a way of life, a way of being that informs all aspects of my life. From quiet decisions I make in my personal life to decisions I make in my professional life.

The most rewarding part of being an osteopath is the moments before healing and resolution of complaints for me. It’s the ability to connect deeply to the force of creation that move through us and the healing potential that each of us possess, sitting right there wanting to grow develop and heal us. That feels like sacred work that I have dedicated my life to bring forward at Nourish.

What brings you the greatest joy?

I feel joy in many things I do - in seeing the transformations infant of me in peoples lives and bodies to quiet meditation and time in the stillness of nature. For fun though, I am out on my paddle board or creating art!!