Graduate Spotlight
Erin Post, Doctor of Naturopathy “Hope Can Change Your Life”
Back when Erin Post was raising two youngsters and running a beauty salon in Michigan, two things about the business never ceased to amaze her: what customers talked about and what they ate!
“We are such a junk food society that it’s no wonder our emotional health can be so vulnerable. People drive-up and order entire ‘family meals’ out of a window, never even getting out of the car! Then they try to gulp down some ‘non-food’ while also inhaling traffic fumes, all of which makes us likelier to give or get a harsh dose of road rage. Then we wonder why our nerves stay on edge and our thinking is so fragmented.”
As many salon-goers can attest, when you see people fall asleep with their head in the shampoo bowl, it’s pretty clear that they just may be too exhausted to plan effectively and move with purpose. But Erin is quick to add that more than 15 years of interacting with distracted, excitable multi-taskers “ultimately provided an ‘emotional laboratory’ that now helps me create a calming, safe oasis as a natural health consultant.”
Growing up as an active, outdoorsy teenager, Erin loved the exhilaration of biking and hiking. Exercise was a natural mood-elevator, and she could easily perceive that certain foods were energizing while others were draining. With this innate appreciation of health in balance, she found it easy to choose naturally-sweet fruit and equally easy to resist the candy and soda that some of her moodier classmates seemed to need.
As she learned more about supplements and became a young wife and mother, Erin tried her best to attend campus-based classes and earn a degree in business. “What a hassle,” she recalls, “trying to find sitters, wasting time commuting, feeling limited about my ability to deeply embrace family life while trying to juggle job and class schedules.”
After the birth of their third child her family moved to Atlanta, and a personal inventory of “What’s next?” led Erin to discover and choose Clayton College. She has since completed undergraduate and doctoral degree programs, plus our certificate program in iridology. She is now board-certified in iridology and a board-certified naturopath.
“I remember years of taking the kids to gymnastics and wrestling practice, bringing my textbooks on body movement, homeopathy or herbology, studying for a few minutes at a time in the car, in the bleachers. Now I have a teenager who knows enough about nutrition to resist many of her peers’ unhealthy habits, a son in college who has always believed in using natural supplements, and a daughter who is raising two little ones with health options that include both herbal and medical approaches.”
Erin is now completing a book on food combining and the nutritional needs of people with cancer, diabetes, depression, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, hypoglycemia and other conditions. She works with Wellspring Clinic, which was founded by a pharmacist-turned-chiropractor. Her colleagues include a registered nurse who is also a massage therapist, plus specialists in reflexology, iridology, nutrition and other natural health modalities.
“Helping clients explore various health options, we help people develop confidence to make informed choices. Knowing that someone is listening with empathy and knowledge can help restore hope, even in the face of long-term, chronic issues. We know that the body is amazingly resilient, with keen healing intelligence, and so we never lose hope for improvement — sometimes with small steps and sometimes with quantum leaps!”
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