Friday, January 9, 2009

Week 1

I was born in Natick, Massachusettes. I grew up on the coast of Rhode Island. As a kid, I was adamant about becoming a pastry chef. My father agreed to pay for culinary school as long as I got my bachelors' degree first. This turned out to be excellent advice. After working as a Pastry Chef for a few years I was diagnosed with celiac sprue disease. This discovery halted my present career goals and allowed my to re-think my future plans. I was so thankful to Acupuncture for finally showing me the path to whole health, but I knew I would really miss the personal/customer contact from baking & pastry. 

I worked in Marketing for Whole Foods Market for a few years until literally one day it occurred to me to go back to school for Acupuncture. Once this thought entered into my mind, all the other pieces of my life started to fall into place. In other words, it was the only thing that made sense. So...here I am. 

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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 11, 2009 at 4:30 PM

    Your story of excelling as a pastry chef and then being diagnosed with celiac is very interesting. So many people are coming forward with intolerances to gluten. I wonder how this background will be something you are able to draw upon when you see patients in the future who are gluten-intolerant and trying to make the adjustment in diet/lifestyle. I'm sure it will be very helpful as a practitioner : )

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  2. WanderingAboutItJanuary 11, 2009 at 5:36 PM

    Hi Heidi, it's Cait. I'm from Cape Cod - so we're sort of childhood neighbors. My Pastry Chef buddy Michelle just graduated so if I start flagging you for cookie recipes, I hope that's okay. yeah, illness has a way of paving roads for us, for "good" or "bad". I'm grateful to acupuncture also, mostly and as of late for all the help so many great practitioners gave my injured shoulder - I never really knew what an acute needling tx was till I got a few dozen...

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 11, 2009 at 10:32 PM

    I want to hear the story of how you became so adamant about becoming a pastry chef at such a young age!

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  4. frog2012January 12, 2009 at 10:35 AM

    I went to high school in Massachusettes. I wonder, do you find the irony of your story humorous or infuriating?

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