Dr. Tabatha Barber got certified as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner to gain credibility, but felt called to publicly identify as a Christian Nutritionist despite her hesitation about the evangelical label. She wrestled with the conflict between private faith and public declaration for years before embracing it.
Started reading a bunch and went back to get my certification as a nutritional therapy practitioner with really no plan to help anybody. I just wanted my friends and my family to listen to me. You can probably relate. Nobody will listen. I'm like, maybe if I have some letters behind my name, they will listen. They still don't. But even though I had no plans to do anything with it, I just felt God calling me to it because I was like, gosh, if I can help one person like me, if I could change one person's life, it would be so worth it. Felt him calling me to call myself the Christian Nutritionist. I was very resistant to that because I've always been Christian but very private in my faith. I, you know, I felt like that was very evangelical to put myself out there like that. And so I was like, no, no, God, you ask somebody else, you know, not me. But you know how God is when he's really just kind of pressing into your mind and your soul to do something and just doesn't let up. And so I was like, fine, you know, all right, I'll do this. And so that was about 12 or 13 years ago, and I've been doing it ever since.
