The Art of Healing

An Evolution of Wisdom

Wow, was I clueless when I started in the health and fitness industry almost thirty years ago. I thought I knew everything, but I knew nothing! As I have recently entered my second half-century of life and am passionately and expectantly heading towards the magical 100-year mark, I can look back and see an incredible and transformational evolution of my thinking and attitudes towards optimal wellbeing.

It all started for me back in the 1980s as I was coming out of a seven-year professional stint playing football and looking for my next career progression. Needless to say, it was those seven years that dramatically influenced and shaped my young thinking, attitudes and actions as I started out in the health and fitness industry.

If you have had any experience in professional or high-level sport, then you’ll understand what I mean when I tell you that the one word I resonate most with, as I think about that period, maybe even would be apt.

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