Graduate Spotlight
Janet Adams Urquhart, Doctor of Naturopathy
“The Truth Is In Your Eyes…and Feet”
During
the 1970s in Ohio, Janet Adams Urquhart first taught cosmetology in the
public schools. Moving to Georgia in the 1980s, she began teaching at
the college level, encouraging others how to recognize and maximize their
natural beauty and inner glow. So it seems only natural that she would
also build and grow her own cosmetology practice alongside these teachings.
“I have always enjoyed the close personal relationships that come from helping people tend to their hair and skin,” she says.
So Janet soon found herself pondering why some of her clients were aging, slowing down and “wearing out” fast, while others almost seemed to get stronger with the years. Far beyond the smokers’ premature wrinkles, she wondered why sometimes a young person’s eyes looked dull and lifeless while her very next customer, perhaps 30 or 40 years older, enjoyed the soft skin and lustrous hair of a teenager.
“I started chatting with everyone who sat in the chair, like a real-life research experiment, to find out more about how they fed their physical hunger and how they fed their minds and their souls. I knew, all my life, that the foods we choose and the thoughts we entertain are how we, all by ourselves, can expand or shrink our life force with relative ease.”
Clayton College became her learning partner, and Janet remembers her instant, deep fascination with the teachings of Iridology, reflexology and herbology.
After graduating in 1989 she opened The Herb Shoppe in Midtown Atlanta in 1995. Over the years as many as half a dozen employees at a time learned from Janet how to improve their own lives and also the lives of thousands of natural health consumers.
Janet the life-long learner travels and studies internationally. She has created iridology training videos that address the challenges of “reading” the constitutional properties of darker irises, whose microscopic fibers can be more difficult to read than green and blue irises.
She has also created reflexology and herbology video segments that introduce the tenets of natural health to a growing audience of community/civic, church and other professional groups. “You have to always be in a learning mode, in order to teach,” she says, “and I love the whole, never-ending process.
“As I learned naturopathy my family became the willing Guinea pigs,” she says with appreciation. “By replacing the jolting caffeine ‘kick’ with non-toxic and invigorating ginseng and green tea, and really adsorbing all nutrients through food combining, my husband has changed his life and improved his health -- and not because of what I say but through all the nutritional research he helps me do. For these last four years I’ve operated a naturopathic consulting business, Alternative Decisions, from our home. We have a huge teaching library that Norman has been instrumental in building.”
With reflexology, Janet empowers others to address systemic and organ-specific pain and weakness by helping to remove energy blockages within the corresponding energy meridians in clients’ feet and hands. With ears that listen deeply and the intention to really touch another’s life, for this naturopath the rewards of helping people find an easier way to live strong are nothing less than a spiritual calling.
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