Camilla:

“For the first time since I graduated I felt excited about the prospect of being an acupuncturist. 

I left feeling very enthusiastic with the thought that "yes, I can do that, I can help these women" - whereas before I wanted to help them but was somehow blocked, or lacking in all the tools. 

The workshop opened up my eyes to other methods of dealing with these cases outside TCM which I have always instinctively known but never had the permission to use without feeling like I was practicing ‘impure’ TCM.
 
It also reawakened my interest with the 8 extras, a topic that was belittled sometime in the 4th year of college when we were doing our research subject.
 
It gave me the confidence to clearly see what was REALLY happening when I visited one of my patients after a C-section in a private hospital a week later. 

The uneasy feeling about what was being done to here was more than an uneasy feeling but a clear picture of the patterns being laid down that would affect her and her babe for years to come”.                                                                       

The course gave me was a passion and a need to be practicing in the area of women’s health which I have toyed with for years but never actively pursued.

I had the belief that I needed to have a general practice and not exclude all the other cases because if I did I would not have enough patients and would not be able to make a living, I now realise there are an abundance of birthing women who need our help.
 
Thankyou so much – you validated some of my deep personal subconscious beliefs about birthing that I must have had passed down to me from my mother because they were never something we learnt at college."