Holly's Story

Holly's interest in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) began in 1990 when her husband was diagnosed with cancer and given no guarantees for a full recovery. Holly's husband, like at least 50 per cent of cancer patients, began to get calls from family and friends with recommendations of herbs and alternative treatments for "curing" his cancer. While keeping an open mind, Holly began to investigate some of the herbal and nutritional recommendations. Her husband made positive recovery with a combination of intense chemotherapy, and radiation in combination with a select number of complementary therapies.

In 1996, Holly began taking courses and researching over 50 complementary and alternative health care practices, determining the value of each practice. Holly continues to meet and interview hundreds of CAM practitioners trying to make sense of healthcare practices that are beyond the boundaries of medicine.

Holly, a former nurse with over 17 years of clinical nursing experience, left the hospital setting in 2000 to research complementary & alternative health practices and now educates the Canadian community on the value and cautions of these practices.

Holly has personally experienced naturopathy, aromatherapy, homeopathy, meditation, music therapy, chi gong, tai chi, massage therapy, rolfing, chiropractics, active release, yoga, Chinese medicine, acupressure, and acupuncture, hypnotherapy, iridology, photocomparative blood analysis, electrodermal screening, applied kinesiology, vitamins and herbal therapy, flower essences, and reiki. She continues to experience the different therapies and evaluate them from an objective perspective.

Holly, who was once very much committed to conventional medicine as being the best option, now incorporates her medical expertise with her complementary and alternative health expertise to offer the most reliable information in integrative medicine. Holly is recognized as a Canadian leader and trusted source of reliable information in alternative and complementary medicine and is a strong advocate of integrative medicine.

Founding EnerChiHealth.com

In October, 2001 Holly founded Enerchi Health.com, an online internet resource for quality information and resources on complementary & alternative medicine.

EnerChi Health.com brings what Holly believes to be the most credible CAM resources together in one location to minimize the confusion that so many people face when seeking information on complementary and alternative medicine.

Currently the website sees an average of 12,000 visitors to the site every month. Since its inception, Holly has communicated with people worldwide on CAM.