The Purpose
The Vision
My vision is hope.
To provide hope when all feels hopeless.
No matter how grim your circumstances, no matter the seriousness of your condition, there is always hope.
Too often we are told there is no cure, that there is no possibility for improvement, and too often this becomes our story. We may deteriorate and accept the path that has been written. But we have the power to remain hopeful: to rewrite our story, imagine the impossible, and to make that impossible tangible.
The Mission
To empower people and to help them access their body’s ability to heal naturally and holistically. To teach the tools to have a strong foundation and create an awareness of and access to the various choices they have to live a hopeful, healthy and purposeful life.
The Philosophy
Dr Diana’s philosophy is embedded in an understanding that we are more than just physical bodies. The very word ‘body’ poses conceptual problems in the first place. ‘The body’ implies an entity, individual or subject, a ‘thing’ in which I dwell. The body, on its own, as an entity, is un-alive, a thing, simply put – ‘matter’.
Why is this important? Why should it matter whether we view the body as separate and contained?
The answer is simple: it impacts on the way we view the world; it impacts on how we participate in the world and our relationships; and it impacts on the way we see ourselves. Significantly, if the body is just a thing in which I dwell, it impacts on the way we approach our health and our self-care.
We cannot look at our body in isolation
Healing, in a Western context, is often sought after to deal with physical manifestations of pain or disease. That is, someone will seek medical support or intervention when they are in pain or diagnosed with a serious illness. Their 'body' is not functioning as they are accustomed, and they seek to improve the way their body feels. Healing is certainly needed at this level to improve one’s physical state.
However, did you know that often, illness and disease can manifest in the body with physical signs and symptoms occurring last? Factors such as emotional stress, sadness, anxiety, diet, environmental influences, social relationships, and spiritual discontentment have been linked to illness and disease. This means that healing is not something that happens just within the finite body as we often understand it. We are not simply a sum of body parts, or limbs or organs, that stop functioning simply because illness happens to land in that part of the body. A broader understanding of who we are as a whole person helps us address healing and health in a way that is not restrictive to physical symptoms. And with care, a person can thrive before they become ill or improve their state if they are already unwell.
The white coat is not always right
Doctors cannot be expected to know everything and many will admit they do not. However, the authority and certainty ascribed to some diagnoses and timeframes is dangerous. This is particularly concerning as it takes away someone’s ‘power’, hope and the belief that they can affect change in their own life and in their own body. Changes that might be made simply by radically altering one’s diet, implementing specific natural medicine, or changing one’s mindset, should be enough to make those specific doctors heed the dangers of their warnings and cautions. It is disappointing, at best, and irresponsible and negligent, at worst, when certain holistic methods are ignored, ridiculed or eliminated simply because they are different and contrary to the medication that has just been approved. This medicalised and pathologised world has created an over-reliance and dependency on doctors and created in us a lack of confidence in our body’s ability to overcome illness and disease given the right tools. We have lost our connection with nature and from where we came. Somewhere along the way, we lost the truth. And we lost hope.