One of the things I noticed when I mention I am an alternative medicine practitioner is the judgements and assumptions people project onto me before I even get to know them, or open my mouth. They are:

1.) I am a vegetarian
2.) That I am going to judge them if they smoke, drink, eat junk food, or eat meat
3.) I am then going to lecture them about the errors of their ways and try and convert them to my lifestyle
4.) That I must be totally healthy and perfect myself, and if I am not then I am a hypocrite
5.) Get into this superiority/ inferiority power struggle or moral struggle with them

Ok news flash:

I do not care if you smoke, drink your brains out, eat crap all day, and use foul language everytime you open your mouth. I am not interested in judging you. It's not my life, it's your life. You can do what ever you dam please with your life.

I am interested only in helping people if they ask for it.  If people are sick, of being sick. When my brother was ill,  I never once mentioned to him he can seek out alternative health care, not once did I pressure him into anything. I went with him to the hospital for support and that's it. 

I grew up in a home with cigarettes, alcoholism, junk food and negative thinking. I am used to that whole way of life. In fact my best friend Ed smokes. So smokers do not need to hide under a couch when I walk into a room.

Some health practitioners may behave this way, but not all of us do.  I just want to set the record straight. It's no different than projecting judgements onto other professions. For example: that all blue collar workers are stupid and uneducated. Or that all lawyers are crooks, or that all politicians are liars, or that all mechanics are men, or all nurses are women.

These shenanigans need to stop.

Lindsay Tietz, Homeopathic Doctor
Owner  Intention to Heal
Proudly Serving the Danforth Area Directly