Suzi Nevell, physiotherapist and CHEK faculty, is my dear friend and has been my greatest mentor for working with the physical body and so I have invited her here today, to talk about Holistic Health. Suzi has an amazing professional career as a physiotherapist spanning more than 27 years. After some years touring the world with a variety of high performance athletes and sports teams, and becoming New Zealand’s Women’s Trampoline Champion, Suzi moved to the United States. While there, she was invited by Paul Chek to join the CHEK Institute’s senior teaching staff in San Diego. Over the course of the next 16 years, she absorbed Paul’s teachings on blending physical, nutritional, mental, emotional and spiritual coaching into a coaching model for health. Today, Suzi brings all her experience, professional expertise and philosophies on life, health and wellbeing, for the benefit of her clinic and gym, Sweet7 back in her hometown, Auckland, New Zealand.   In this episode we discuss: Why we need to look at the person that has the disease, not the disease that has the person. Suzi’s experience as an athlete that inspired her to be a holistic practitioner My experience with trauma and how movement helped me overcome that. How Suzi moved from a physiotherapist into being holistic health practitioner The Six foundations of health: Breathing, Hydration, Nutrition, Movement, Thoughts, Sleep Suzi’s 7th Foundation - hence naming her business Sweet 7 How to choose the priority issue for a client How the client actually tells us what the diagnosis is Practitioners working together for the client - Suzi and I talk about our referral networks of allied health practitioners and how the dream team can get a client real success. Real client cases Suzi and I have worked on/are working on where the issue has required us to use the totem pole assessment and build a treatment plan encompassing all aspects of healing and sometimes we’ve not even been the practitioner needed to work on them. When things are actually nothing to do with the musculoskeletal system and we need to refer out. My experience of orthodontics for a chronic jaw issue and what that taught me about coaching clients. Being able filter out what is appropriate for a client The Totem Pole, created by Paul Chek and the hierarchy of bodily systems for survival.  https://chekinstitute.com/totempole/   You can find Suzi Nevell at https://www.sweet7.co.nz/physio-in-auckland/ She is available in Auckland for physiotherapy appointments and online for practitioner mentoring and presentations.  I highly recommend you get in touch with Suzi if you are a practitioner wanting to expand your practice. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.