ABOUT Johanna
About Johanna Herget
I suffered from a major digestive imbalance in my early 20’s resulting in mood swings, migraines and blood-sugar problems. Through a desire to regain my health, I made a major diet change. Using Chinese dietary theory to balance my meals, I cut out all sugar, wheat and processed foods while increasing intake of vegetables and whole grains. Within 2 weeks all my symptoms had disappeared. In the next 3 months I saw other profound changes happen in my body. I had enormous amounts of energy, no longer caught the cold that was going around at the time, an improved complexion, and an actual change in body shape to name a few.
For the next six years I read everything I could get my hands on regarding alternative health care and dietary therapy: from Ayurveda to western herbs, Atkins to Macrobiotics. I was amazed not only by the changes I had been able to create myself, but also by the lack of knowledge I had had before. I knew that I had to help others find their health and power over their life. Finally, I decided to formalize my training by entering a Master program in Oriental Medicine.
Today I treat many different forms of imbalance. I understand the desperation involved when conventional medicine doesn’t help or understand. My goal is to treat people until their health is in their own hands – to help bring patients to a state of balance and teach them how to listen to their body.
Find the Path to a Long and Healthy Life
I started practicing in 2005 with this pressing message to my patients:
"As a healthcare practitioner, my objective is to empower you with the knowledge of wellness, to teach you how to listen to your body and to help bring you to a state of balance. I will educate you not only to interpret the messages your body is sending, but also to respond in a practical way.
I understand the desperation involved when conventional medicine doesn’t help or understand. Ultimately, I think the power over your own health should belong to you.”
Now after nearly 2 decades in practice I find this message still stands.
Not Just Needles
I love working with diet and herbs. In fact diet and the results of simple and straight forward changes in diet is what led me to study this medicine in the first place. It is amazing to watch the changes that can come about when food is used as medicine because as we all know - you are what you eat! But food also tradition and habit and comfort and safety and these are as important and vital to your health as calories and vitamins and micronutrients and proteins or carbs. How you FEEL about what you eat is as much part of the picture as all the rest. If we work with diet it will be together and one practical step at a time that takes all of these parameters into consideration.
Sometimes food isnt enough. There are kitchen herbs - foods taht can be used as medicine, medicine that can be used as food. Added to the diet, selectively consumed. And then there are actual medicinals. These are used as needed for patients who are interested. Sometimes these are prescribed in the traditional format, a decoction of various carefully selected herbs grouped into what are called formulas. These formulas were developed and documented over the past 2000 years and continue to be studied today extensively. At times research from the west has borrowed active ingredients (as an attempt to provide scientific controls) from this long standing medicine to enhance its own medicine. Many of the prescriptions we may get today have roots in ancient herbal knowledge. In my practice I rely on the reserah conducted within the communities to select and modify formulas for the myriad of symptoms and patterns
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MY COACHING METHOD
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Focus
It all starts by learning how to focus on what you want.
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Reflect
Next, you’ll reflect on what may be blocking you, and learn how to overcome these obstacles.
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Refine
The last step? We learn how to continually refine what we’ve learned. Think of this as your new beginning.
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