really understood that a veterinarian studies and practices medicine.  That medicine and surgery are a prominent part of practice.  This was not consistent with my way of thinking about health and wellness, for me or for animals. What to do?  I continued pursuing my horse studies.  One advanced class I wanted required a nutrition class as a prerequisite.  I fell in love.  I found it miraculous how our body could take a food and change it into living flesh.  How we process different things differently.  How we get rid of what we don’t need.  My understanding of these processes and the implications of our lifestyle and diet choices would deepen greatly as I journeyed with my mother through breast cancer and her search for answers.  She studied with Anne Wigmore in Boston introducing me to wheat grass and the powerful concepts of living foods.   We traveled to Mexico so she could receive care at the Gerson Clinic.  Here we took classes and learned about the miracle of fresh juices.  While at the Gerson Clinic I met a recent chiropractic graduate there with his father.  It was from our lengthy discussions on nutrition, chiropractic, health and wellness that committed me to chiropractic.  I was inspired by the basic tenets of chiropractic, the innate healing capacity of the body, the expression of health from the inside out.  Above, down, inside, out.  It all made sense to me, tying together so many of the pieces of my upbringing.  I loved and excelled at school, graduating magna cum laude.  Part way through school I married my sweetheart, Andrew Downey, fellow traveler, visionary and very bold adventurer.  Committed to ourselves, each other and the service of others in the pursuit of health and expanding wellbeing, the adventure in always close at hand.  Together we continue to explore the natural world-both inside and out joined now by our two exceptionally intelligent and healthy boys.  

                                                                       Learning.  Sharing.  Serving.  Making a difference.