I successfully managed to find this image from 2013? 2014? by combing all the way back through my Facebook photos. But here I am and here we were during a perfect spring morning in sunny San Diego - Encinitas to be exact. Featured is a few friends of mine and the president of the Holistic Chamber of Commerce (HCC) - Eileen Kurlander in the middle and me on the right as the Vice President of the HCC.

Eileen Kurlander had asked me to be her VP after she saw my desire to create change in my community. At the time I was the lab manager at Psy-Tek Subtle Energy Laborary, a student at the California Institute for Human Science and also becoming certified in Pranic Healing and Biofield Tuning - and also becoming a yoga teacher! I was hungry and I wanted more.

I was teaching classes all around Encinitas at various different places on different topics. Chiropractors and acupuncturists would invite me to their clinic to educate on Thermography, yoga studios would invite me to talk about energy healing, and sometimes cute and cozy coffee shops would invite me to talk about women’s health. At this point I had been teaching these topics since my early 20’s as it became a special interest of mine after a health crisis caused by allopathic medicine and pharmaceutical drugs.

I left college with my undergrad as I was too sick to continue pursing a Master’s. Around that time I had met a ND, MD and PhD (all the same guy) and had fallen magically into a Thermography career. With all these things combined - being mentored by someone versed in all angles of medicine, having a medical background myself, learning about prevention and preventive scans topped with a special interested in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, and entering the rabbit hole that is energy healing; I naturally started teaching locally as I figured if this information is helping me expand and grow, it would help others too.

I taught and traveled and ended up moving to Florida first before moving out west and taught across the United States. Once I got to California I had already been teaching holistic and sometimes obscure topics for many years which made me an incredibly well-rounded teacher and writer, as also at this time I was writing articles for various magazines like Natural Awakening, The Hour Detroit and for websites like The Gerson Therapy.

I taught for the Holistic Chamber of Commerce and met Amelia (pictured left in the image) and started writing for yet a local Encinitas magazine called The Life Connection.

I was Vice President of the HCC (Encinitas Chapter) for one year and worked alongside Eileen expanding our outreach and education programs.

I very much enjoyed my time with the HCC and under the mentorship of Eileen, and was pleased by all the things I was able to learn from and grow into!