I worked for 20 years as a veterinarian. During those 20 years, I spent hundreds of hours talking to my clients about their pet’s home environment. My philosophy was – why use drugs and surgery if you could resolve the problem in other ways? Nutrition and stress are big contributors to health or illness. Why not look to control the factors that you can? In other words, I was already acting as a Holistic Health Coach.
 
Yet the more time I spent talking to owners, the more I started to see that the family members often suffered from the same conditions as did the pets – diabetes, cancer, obesity, allergies, anxiety. Was this coincidence – or was it an indication of a problem in the home environment?