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Restoring Radiance: My Path to Integrative Health

Finding Natural Healing

 

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For years, I've been searching for alternatives to highly processed foods and conventional remedies. Along the way, I discovered something profound: many treatments only address symptoms rather than root causes, and the information available often contradicted itself.

My quest for deeper understanding led me to the Integrative Health Practitioner Institute, which uniquely combines seven different disciplines:

  • Functional Medicine

  • Orthomolecular Medicine

  • Eastern Philosophy

  • Traditional Naturopathy

  • Herbalism

  • Bioregulatory Medicine

  • Ayurvedic Medicine

This certification journey taught me more than I ever expected. Though the program is entirely science-based, it unexpectedly strengthened my faith and deepened my understanding of God's creations and mercy.

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Woman in a Field

A Personal Turning Point

My relationship with God was complicated by grief. In 2002, I lost my Abuela to cancer. She was the most active and giving woman I've ever known—waking before sunrise to cook, clean, sew, care for grandchildren, help neighbors, and support anyone in need. Watching this amazing woman suffer through cancer created doubts about an all-loving God. Why would He choose her to endure such suffering and take her from us?

This course answered that question in a way I never expected.

The Wisdom of Natural Healing

God created us so perfectly that we have the remarkable ability to heal ourselves. When you get a cut or break a bone, it heals on its own. What I hadn't fully realized was that our entire body works this way—if we remove what hinders healing and provide what the body needs.

Think about a simple cut: you clean it to remove dirt and germs (what hinders healing), then perhaps apply something to aid the healing process. What happens if we leave the dirt, or worse, keep adding contaminants? Not only will it not heal, but it might become infected and create bigger problems.

The same principle applies to our whole body. The difference is that while most of us know how to care for a cut, we haven't always been taught how to remove obstacles to healing and support our body's natural processes in other areas of health.

This understanding transformed not just my approach to health, but my spiritual journey as well.

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