To the people who make up our profession…
I’m just back from attending the opening of the Melbourne Apothecary/ Mecca collaboration in Melbourne CBD as one of Charmaine & Carly’s VIPPPs… Very Impressed Proud Privileged People
Everyone who knew I was attending wants to know the details of this extraordinary evening & describe what these women (and a TEAM of awesome individuals alongside them) have created and achieved. I can only respond with a GIF that conveys…I don’t have the words, my mind is truly blown. And it is.
This is the culmination of 2 years of their non-stop efforts. Pitching, planning, problem-solving & preparing, on a scale that most of us can not even imagine. But it’s also off the back of Charmaine’s 20+years of doing more of the same, running pioneering fertility practices in Melbourne. These guys impress the pants off me. But it’s not just them.
I’m surrounded by nats, nuts and herbalists who have collectively achieved almost anything and almost everything. Some have established food production farms, others grow medicinal herbs at scale, build apothecaries either large and small, set up annual conferences to educate their colleagues and communities, write and publish books, have launched a podcast, go work for government, set up patient programs, run ground-breaking group consults, work in research taking our great work global, open a clinic in rural and regional locations etc etc. And the new grads I’ve witnessed take their very first steps, crafting and creating their very own business branding and logo, perhaps setting up an online business. And for those of us a little more seasoned…maybe to have just kept on keeping on, to have faced barriers and re-routed, to have fallen down and got back up again…seriously…it is all impressive.
So look around and you might just fall in love all over again too. We only need to see ourselves to be inspired ♥️
