Take a few seconds to ponder: What is disease? What is healing? Sure enough, disease can wear many different hats. But if you listen carefully, there are two words that come back over and over when patients seek for help: From their perspective, disease is before anything else about pain and limitation. If that’s the case, what is healing then? Is it the complete absence of pain? Partially relieving the pain when nothing else can be done, is that not healing? Is it the complete absence of physical symptoms? If our mind, body and spirit are connected one to another, then can there be a disease that has no emotional component to it? As a practitioner, can you only target physical symptoms without helping the soul? Would a “physical cure” be considered complete or partial? What is healing? Can there be no healing of an incurable disease? Finding emotional peace when faced with a terminal illness, is that not healing? What is healing? Is it merely a return to our previous state of heath? Could it not mean also reaching a greater state of health than ever before? What is healing? Is healing limited to human beings? Can there be healing of humans without healing of our trees, of our birds, of our seasons, of our planet? Many people are under the impression that naturopathic treatments take months to take effect. This is not always true. The best examples of quick and dramatic improvements are seen in children, who have such a vibrant vitality. However, patients often seek alternative care after trying many other options, and when their health condition has deteriorated over months, if not years. In that case, and even though relative improvements may be soon noticeable, deep healing may take time and courage: We set personal goals that are too high for our own capacities; unexpected events happen that set us back; we need to leave our fears behind and dive into the unkown; or we simply have to face our own vulnerabilities… Regaining health is not a linear process, rather it is often a work under construction, made of improvements and sometimes of aggravations. Thus we need to step back here and there to contemplate the mileage we've covered since we started taking care of ourselves. We have to keep in mind that this journey is ours and no one else's, that we can only move at our own pace and that the goal is to keep improving on a global level. In a sense, it is about taking our body by the hand day by day - Corpus diem. Sure enough, this choice we made to address the root of our imbalances will ultimately be rewarded beyond our expectations.

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