This is an excerpt from our Spring 2016 issue. Read about other students and their experiences at CNM by subscribing soon so we can post you a copy or picking up a magazine from one of our lovely stockists all over Ireland. Tell them we said hello!
Careers in Naturopathic Medicine
Candice Behan, Acupunturist and CNM Staff Member
My mom always healed my sister and I with “home remedies”. Fresh aloe for sunburn, bicarbonate soda paste for a bee sting… it was what we knew. It seemed only natural would choose a career in natural medicine, right? Fast forward a few years and I had landed a career as a medical sales representative. This was big! I went to university for Business and Marketing and medical sales had the reputation as being hard to break into but well worth the effort. I was soon making a high-salary income and also found the work quite easy. But there was always something missing. One afternoon while waiting to speak to a physician, I found myself looking around at the patients waiting to get in. They were sitting there, looking less than healthy, toting their bag of prescription medications with them. After years in the industry, their pile of pill bottles was confusing even for me. I decided there had to be a better way. I was seeing an amazing acupuncturist so I began to ask him questions. Turns out, he was an instructor at an acupuncture college and he loved his career. I signed up. Three years later I was in private practice. I now specialise in fertility acupuncture and have never looked back! The first call I received from a patient telling me she was pregnant at the age of 41, after years of trying, well, it doesn’t get any better than that. Acupuncture gives me passion and has brought me more joy than I could have hoped. The memory of that waiting room still makes me sad but it will always be a reminder that there is a better way, and I found it!
This is an excerpt from our Spring 2016 issue. Read about other students and their experiences at CNM by subscribing soon so we can post you a copy or picking up a magazine from one of our lovely stockists all over Ireland. Tell them we said hello!
