Having originally trained as a doctor, the area of health continues to be of great interest as well as experience.
My decision to leave medicine came about in part from feeling restricted when working within “the medical model”.
Also, I discovered through my NLP training that my desire was to work in the area of mental health as opposed to mental illness – this was an important distinction for me and one that determined the direction I wanted to move in.
Throughout my training I had been less than impressed with the results achieved in psychiatric medicine and this led to a move towards using NLP therapy processes and in particular, the area of mind-body healing.
One important thing I have learnt is this:
When you position the doctor (as opposed to yourself) as the expert on your body, maybe what you are really doing is shooting the messenger – your symptom(s) may return or get worse.