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Katherine Willow
Promoting healing and education
for a healthy community
BY KAREN SECORD
Sustainability contributes to positive business – Katherine Willows
Katherine Willow believes in building a healthy community,
one person at a time.
“I believe in the importance of developing oneself as a
contribution to the planet,” says Katherine emphatically.
A naturopathic doctor, business owner, entrepreneur
and community leader, Katherine can best be described
as a hopeful visionary. She has big dreams and an even
bigger resolve. And is dedicated, both professionally and
personally, to teaching and facilitating healing and sustainability.
Ask Katherine to explain how this vision manifests itself
in practical terms and you can feel her excitement.
“If you integrate healing and sustainability technology
into the culture, it can have a huge effect,” she says. “We are
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so connected that what we feel and what we think affects
everything around us in such a profound way.”
Healing is the foundation for everything Katherine
does. Not the take-a-pill-and-feel-better kind of healing we
might associate with traditional medicine, but a deep personal
exploration that promotes inner peacefulness, environmental
awareness and innate wisdom.
“Even living a lifestyle that is healthy contributes to
sustainability. It contributes to positive businesses — contributes
to a whole different mindset,” says Katherine.
“And I really feel like that is coming. [I feel] that there’s
an inherent movement in this world that’s trying to evolve
us, and that we’re just working with that — and it’s just
opening and it’s blooming. It’s who we’re meant to be —
PHOTO: KAREN SECORD