I’m an emergency medicine PA and still struggle to navigate the alternative medicine space. I am really looking forward to learning more. Thanks for doing this, Katy.
Exactly! Even just knowing some of the red flag/green flag signs will be helpful. I fired my DPC doc this morning so alternative medicine might be creeping more into my life soon! So excited for this! I will reply to the email so you can record my RSVP!
I’ve spent many years navigating this space as well. I’m a Reiki II practitioner myself and about to attune to Reiki Master. There are good, bad and ugly in both traditional and alternative medicine. The challenge with alternative medicine is that there are very few standards, so you aren’t judging from a neutral starting point. I started my Reiki journey with Level I in 2020, then Level II in 2022. I’ve spent years studying, contemplating and growing to finally feel like it’s time to become a Reiki Master. My teacher has decades of experience and is very committed to detailed training, honoring the practice. Conversely, there are Reiki Masters that went from no experience to master in a two-day course with a teacher who didn’t have much experience themselves. So much of it is about finding quality humans to connect with. Excited to hear what you have to say in your webinar!
So true Samantha! My writing on the placebo effect the past two articles really holds some clues - if you connect with someone and you believe they can help you, then that trust unlocks healing. That's not to say that practitioners aren't doing anything, just that there's some mystical aspect here that makes their impact effective when the spirit of the other person really finds their "person."
Yes!! ❤️ Energy healers / practitioners, don’t actual heal. They hold space for people to heal themselves. Without trust, “finding your person”, letting go and surrendering is higher cliff to dive from.
This is so needed. There are so many doctors and healers who are happy to keep taking their patients' money even though the patients aren't seeing results. I don't know how they sleep at night.
That's why I started reading research myself. I figured that I could do it better than the professionals I was paying, who I suspected didn't even read past the abstract.
Yes it’s the Wild West out there!! There are good ones but it’s hard to even figure out what kind is the right one for you much less which one of that kind.
I’m an emergency medicine PA and still struggle to navigate the alternative medicine space. I am really looking forward to learning more. Thanks for doing this, Katy.
It is SO hard! And there aren't easy, formulaic answers. But there are some things I can pass on!
Exactly! Even just knowing some of the red flag/green flag signs will be helpful. I fired my DPC doc this morning so alternative medicine might be creeping more into my life soon! So excited for this! I will reply to the email so you can record my RSVP!
Awesome!!!
I’ve spent many years navigating this space as well. I’m a Reiki II practitioner myself and about to attune to Reiki Master. There are good, bad and ugly in both traditional and alternative medicine. The challenge with alternative medicine is that there are very few standards, so you aren’t judging from a neutral starting point. I started my Reiki journey with Level I in 2020, then Level II in 2022. I’ve spent years studying, contemplating and growing to finally feel like it’s time to become a Reiki Master. My teacher has decades of experience and is very committed to detailed training, honoring the practice. Conversely, there are Reiki Masters that went from no experience to master in a two-day course with a teacher who didn’t have much experience themselves. So much of it is about finding quality humans to connect with. Excited to hear what you have to say in your webinar!
So true Samantha! My writing on the placebo effect the past two articles really holds some clues - if you connect with someone and you believe they can help you, then that trust unlocks healing. That's not to say that practitioners aren't doing anything, just that there's some mystical aspect here that makes their impact effective when the spirit of the other person really finds their "person."
Yes!! ❤️ Energy healers / practitioners, don’t actual heal. They hold space for people to heal themselves. Without trust, “finding your person”, letting go and surrendering is higher cliff to dive from.
This is so needed. There are so many doctors and healers who are happy to keep taking their patients' money even though the patients aren't seeing results. I don't know how they sleep at night.
That's why I started reading research myself. I figured that I could do it better than the professionals I was paying, who I suspected didn't even read past the abstract.
Yes it’s the Wild West out there!! There are good ones but it’s hard to even figure out what kind is the right one for you much less which one of that kind.
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