Cindy’s Bio
January 21st, 2007 by Cindy Hebbard
Certified Community Herbalist & Wellness Educator
I am an herbalist, having studied herbalism, nutritional wellness, shiatsu and holistic healing for nearly 35 years. My teachers have included Rosemary Gladstar, Bernard Jensen, Dennis Willmont, Stephen Harrod Buhner, Andrea and Matthias Reisen and Annemarie Colbin, but few have contributed so profoundly to my understanding of true healing and wellness as Paul Schulick and his lovely wife, Barbi, co-founders and formulators for New Chapter, Inc.
Over the years, I have searched for answers and healed myself from the grasp of several painful auto-immune conditions, including juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, multiple chemical sensitivity, chronic fatigue, eczema, psoriasis, chronic acid reflux, IBS and fibromyalgia. Doctors will usually tell us that, once you have most of these conditions, you’ll have them for life. Maybe.
I have raised both of my daughters, now young women, on organic foods and when they needed non-emergency healthcare, we chose to use healing foods, herbs, nutrition and other holistic therapies. Their health and well-being continues to thrive.
When I was a young child, I wasn’t so lucky. In a two year period, I was prescribed several rounds of antibiotics for ear infections, pneumonia and other illnesses. During those early childhood years, I was accidently poisoned with DDT on our farm. I believe that these two blows to my immune system lead to the degeneration of my liver and digestive tract, allowing the onset of the auto-immune response. As I have learned to properly cleanse and detoxify my cells, and to use foods and safe nutrients to rebuild my compromised organs and tissues, I have regained the vibrant health and emotional wellness I had searched for for a half century. I now feel younger and more vitality in my early fifties than I did in my teens and early adulthood.
Through my deep understanding of the auto-immune response and the healing process,I now provide herbal and nutritional wellness education through:
private or family consultations,
on my website,
lectures and
soon-to-be-published books.
I am not a healthcare provider, and therefore, do not diagnose, treat, cure or mitigate disease. I offer education and a deep understanding about the use of healing foods, safe, effective herbal remedies, nutritional supplements and lifestyle practices so that clients may help their own body, mind and spirit to recover from harm; to detoxify, rejuvenate, revitalize and feel re-enregized!
If you are interested in how you may heal yourself, please contact Cindy for more information or to schedule an initial consultation.
Cindy, congratulations on learning to take care of your own health needs in a healthier, holistic way. If my doctor had his way, I would be on “the purple pill” for the rest of my life for acid reflux from a hiatal hernia. The purple pill wasn’t working so I started doing research on my own and found a friend who uses alternative, intuitive healing methods who told me instead of having too much acid as the drug companies want you to believe that I didn’t have enough stomach acid. Within a year, I was off of the purple pill and only occasionally have indigestion. I have been a vegetarian for almost 10 years and am healthier for it. I am learning to trust my own body to tell me what it needs.