I had graduated from the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, with a B.S. in Community Health Education and a minor in biology. The biology minor was for a future return to grad school. Not sure what that path would be, I still felt it important to prepare for it.
Medicine, I knew, was not the path for me. Why? Simply put, medicine did not resonate with me. What I was looking for was a profession that would provide a "world view" that was vibrant and alive for both patient and practitioner. Science was fascinating and alive but... the study of disease was not. It did not provide the sense of fulfillment that I felt would only come from leading people towards a healthy way of life. A lifestyle, whole, full of vision for a bright future for all people is really where I wanted to BE. I wasn't interested in dispensing medicine. I wanted something I could do with my hands. I wanted something purposeful and real and creative!
Of course most of these thoughts were just on the edge of my concrete awareness in undergraduate school. I had to search for a period of time before I found chiropractic.
How did I find chiropractic? It's actually a bit humorous because it was right under my nose for quite some time before it actually dawned on me. I regularly took my boys (and self) to a chiropractor. One day I noticed a poster on the wall that said something to the effect of "Have you considered a career in chiropractic?" It was from Sherman College.
It was immediate, once I noticed the poster of course. Why hadn't I thought of it before? Within the month I was driving south from Maine to South Carolina in a car brimming full of "boy energy." You know, the kind of "boy energy" that means pillow fights in the back seat of the car, in the middle of the night while Mom (me) is driving in the fog through winding mountain roads with lots of big trucks (going kinda fast). Now I can smile about it! Then, I wasn't sure if we'd make it to Sherman alive!
To be continued....
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Married with two young children and working in the family chiropractic office as a massage therapist, Melinda Hallam realized she still had more than 30 years of work ahead of her, and she wanted to do something she was passionate about. So she put her fears aside and enrolled at Sherman College. When she graduates, she’ll join her father and uncle as a doctor of chiropractic.
Growing up in the chiropractic lifestyle, Ryan Burkhart was inspired by science and health as a sophomore in high school and decided then that he would follow his father’s footsteps and enroll at Sherman. “I saw Sherman as the place to think of both the why and the how of chiropractic,” he explains.
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09/01/2011
How did I come to see that Chiropractic and Sherman College were THE PATH for me? (Part I)
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