I feel so lucky to have found my passion in life. To be able to practise daily is what makes my heart sing. I am so honoured to be able to do the work I do. I grew up on a farm and loved the earth with all its many faces. I love animals and remember spending many hours looking for birds nests, watching for the first frog spawn of spring, trying to find hedgehogs, waiting to see the first swallow or hear the first cuckoo, waiting for Mother earth to give birth to primroses and violets.

I loved caring for children of all ages so it is not surprising that I started work as a children’s nurse. I finally went and did my midwifery training in Glasgow. I totally loved this area. After 20 years I hung up my uniform to possibly become a “mum” but God had other plans for me.

Due to an illness in 1989 I went for acupuncture treatment and was so impressed with my body’s recovery that I finally entered the healing arts in a different way. After two years of study I finally had my first patient for Acupuncture in April 1992.

The following year I started a Kinesiology course. This really was the “WOW” factor for me and I was totally hooked. To me another of God’s amazing gifts. In very simple terms kinesiology is the art of asking the body (higher self) via a muscle test if something is good or bad for it. So I gloried in all the information the human body could divulge, always taking into consideration that the questions are being asked in the right way!

During this time I was also attending personal growth workshops. These were causing all sorts of changes but best of all I was getting to know “me”, to recognise my fears, my anxieties, and my insecurities. Through a friend I started having counselling sessions, which proved of great benefit both to me personally and in communicating with clients.

And then the missing factor came into my life Herbal Medicine. Again it was a feeling of coming home. The herbs are God’s most perfect gift – placed on this wonderful earth before we were, put on this beautiful planet as our natural healers. The wholeness of each herb has the perfect balance so as not to cause our bodies any toxic side effects. Herbs revitalise every cell of the body in so many different ways.

And the last tool. A few years ago I did a Hopi ear candling course. By placing a long specially designed hollow lighted candle in the ear it acts in a fashion to a chimney and has the ability to draw out wax. It sounds like a gentle crackling fire or as someone commented gentle rain, and is equally soothing.

The middle path – moderation is the most perfect way. By looking at each person holistically, that is mentally, physically, and emotionally and looking at each person’s eating habits I can give guidelines/suggest changes that can have subtle or often dramatic positive effects. I have learned to listen to my body (don’t always heed it) and have better health now than I did in the first half of my life. Finding time for being at peace is so healing. To stop and still the chatter for even two minutes every day is so powerfully healing in this frantic fearful world in which we live.
For every illness there grows a herb near by – Paracelsus

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Vivien Hutchinson S.C.M., M.H., M.B.A.W.M.Ac.,Lic.Ac.
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