When I was young (20 years old) and facing my demons head on and entering recovery, receiving holistic treatment services for a broken pelvis( acupuncture, cranium sacral, hot stone massage, practicing meditation for pain management, trauma healing and grounding), and then later moving my professional practice to clinical and holistic services, knowing that was the right next move for me professionally  as well as for the well-being and healing of my clients.

I had absolutely no notion, idea, or insight that the global movement of awareness, treatment, knowledge and commonly accepted treatments would also move in that direction. Sure grateful it did, but I was doing it even if it did not and did all of this in a time when I was walking the path of the minority.

I am stronger and wiser because of the personal and professional challenges, opposition and negativity and became very solid in my way of life and my practice as I faced and surpassed the negativity, scoffing, and judgments one client at at time.

Lori Ellis~McKinney (2018)