Promoting the Profession
This is the beginning of a new column in the Holistic Times, "Promoting the Profession." Each issue, this column will cover issues such as building your practice, credentials and practice parameters, or joining forces with others to network or support the profession on a national level.
Many graduates of CCNH programs choose to practice in the field of natural health. Upon enrollment, many of you are already in practice, perhaps in a conventional healthcare field or perhaps as an herbalist or natural health educator. The focus of this column will be on you, the practitioners.
For our maiden voyage, here is some exciting news about how a medical physician, Elson Haas, MD, supports careers in natural health. As many of you know, Dr. Haas hosts two weekly radio shows. In his local area of northern California, he has a half hour show on KSRO in Santa Rosa. Each Monday at 12:30 pacific time, you can hear him live. Then, later on Monday, he is live on a national internet talk show, Health and Wellness on VoiceAmerica. To listen, go to www.Health.VoiceAmerica.com from 3 - 4 PM, Pacific time. (All of his shows are archived, so you can listen to any previous show at your convenience!)
Following our fourth annual conference where Dr. Haas was a speaker, he returned to Birmingham to visit CCNH. During his stay, he broadcasted his weekly radio shows from CCNH offices. It was great fun and very inspiring!
His topic on Voice America was Careers in Healthcare. CCNH graduates who are in practice and using their education from CCNH in their daily careers called in to his show and shared their successes. Dr. Linda Page joined him to encourage all of those passionate about natural health to write about it as she has done. In fact, she suggested that other PhD students follow her lead—use your dissertation as your first book and get it published! CCNH student Maria Wry, who works at a wellness center in Montana, called in to the show sharing how her life had changed when she changed to a new profession: nutritional consultant. Then graduate Christine Gust called and enthusiastically described how she integrates the principles of naturopathy into her human services work with local businesses in Colorado. Clearly, students and graduates can turn their passion for natural health into a career by finding an avenue to share it with the world, one person at a time.
Thank you, Dr. Haas, for "promoting the profession" by building that bridge between conventional medicine and natural health!
Susie Hale 
shale@ccnh.edu
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