Joanne Smith explains why people become healers: most practitioners first experienced mind-body medicine's benefits in their own recovery. That personal transformation creates a drive to share the methods professionally, especially as mainstream medicine increasingly accepts them.
There's a big drive actually to get more and more people to come into this supportive mind-body medical world, so if many people who do come into this as a profession, they do have their own recovery stories, and it seems to be the case with the majority of people that I've met in this world that they've found themselves now doing this for a living because they can't not. Because they've seen it for themselves, they've experienced it for themselves, and it's like a massive drive that this— more and more and more people need to know about this. And just as, I guess, medicine's catching up, and just as it's filtering into the mainstream medicine system, it's our responsibility now, now that we know this stuff, There's not many people that get well that don't end up doing that loudly because it's impossible not to do, so if you do need help, it's such a great place to get help, it's such a supportive world to become involved in that just
