About Kate

My Path to Kinesiology,

I never set out to be a kinesiologist. I was planning a range of other career activities and passion projects, but as tends to happen in this crazy ride called life, the universe had other ideas.

I had always been a migraine sufferer. I got my first migraine when I was 14 years old. I knew they were hormonally triggered. In my teens and early twenties, I would only get a few a year and as they lasted for a matter of hours at a time, they were quite easy to manage. I went on to have two children, the first pregnancy was easy and I felt well, but after my second pregnancy everything changed.

I was exhausted, anaemic, had a weakened immune system, and my hormones were all over the place. I just could not get on top of my health. I also noticed a dramatic increase in migraines starting from this period. I tried to regulate my hormones with hormonal contraceptives, however I noticed that these made my migraines worse, not better, so I had to stop trying those too. However, despite no longer taking synthetic hormones, the migraines persisted and got worse. For a period of two years I had migraines 60-80% of each month, and every other day I had a dull, relentless ache in my head. I lived on painkillers and migraine preventers and even then was unable to have much quality of life. I wouldn’t travel or go out for the fear of a migraine in public. The frustrating thing was I would see every specialist, neurologist or doctor with an interest in migraines, but nothing seemed to work. That was when I reached rock bottom.

I really had nothing to lose - so I tried kinesiology.

I expected it not to work, like everything else. To my surprise, after my first balance I felt completely different. It was the strangest experience as migraines had been part of my life for such a long time, that I could always feel the exact location that they resided, and yet after that balance I just couldn’t find them anymore. No dull ache, not aura, no blurred vision, no other symptoms. I still expected them to come back, week after week, but the migraines didn’t return. I did struggle with headaches for a few more months, but it was nothing in comparison to what I used to live with. And after a number more sessions of kinesiology I noticed the headaches had disappeared too.

I didn’t understand. How was it even possible doctors and neurologists with years of study and specialisation that I paid a fortune for couldn’t help me, yet a kinesiologist could? None of it made any sense. What was kinesiology? How did it so quickly change my life? I had to know more. I started researching what it was and how it worked the night of my very first session.

Within 3 months of first seeing a kinesiologist I had enrolled in a course, and that is when my life began to change.

I was able to learn a different way of healing that I had never considered before. I learned that emotions, stress, unresolved issues and thought patterns can be held in the body and contribute to sickness. I realised that there was merit in returning towards healing disciplines that have been used for thousands of years and that western medicine, with all of its wonderful benefits, is still in it’s infancy and focuses on only treating the symptoms. Yet, holistic methods don’t treat the the symptoms, they treat the cause.

Since Discovering Kinesiology

Do I entirely understand the exact reason that my migraines got so bad and why they went away? Not exactly. But doctors don’t understand the exact reason that medicines work for some and not for others. Maybe we aren’t supposed to understand everything. But what I know is that since discovering kinesiology, and working with my clients to give back to the modality that saved my life I have found health and happiness like I never knew existed.