About Holistic Insight
Care and development for your mind, body and soul.
Seeking answers to health, wellness and meaning through
holistic science and medical intuition.
Amanda Smithson
Qualified, lifelong Herbalist, Medical Intuitive, Holistic Nutritionist and Researcher.
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Degree qualified Medical Herbalist, Medical Intuitive, Holistic Nutritionist and Researcher. Combining modern, holistic clinical diagnostics with medical intuition to resolve mysterious and complex illnesses.
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Creator of the Holistic Insight clinic and school.
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Avid researcher and learner. Dedicated to empowering people to take control of their own health through the sharing of holistic science and health knowledge.
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20 years experience as a holistic therapist, advising on the use of holistic approaches, including herbal medicine, nutrition, aromatherapy, skin care and flower essences.
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Specialism in the mind-body connection. The stories that we tell ourselves impact us holistically on emotional, physical and spiritual levels. Medical intuition originating from holistic pathophysiology and psychological understanding, has developed into a heightened sensitivity to people, where medical insight is felt on a deep level. Read more about my medical intuition here.
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Raising awareness of "Lost Soul Syndrome". Providing specialised clinic and access to medical literature through an ongoing research project, found here.
Credentials​
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First class BSc (hons) degree in Herbal Medicine - University of Lincoln
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Nutritional Therapist Level 5 Diploma.
Holistic vs Conventional Science
Holistic thinking is revolutionising science, through areas such as health services, ecology, physics and evolutionary biology.
Historically, our textbook academia has been led by reductionism, which aims to reduce questions down to a simple answer. Holistic science, opposes reductionism and acknowledges all of the connections and dynamics which exist within an organism; it's cells and constituents, but also beyond that.
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Where reductionism attempts to explain, predict and manipulate nature by mechanical parts, Holistic Science recognises the limitations of this methodology, embracing and seeking out the complexity and true value in nature. This philosophy underpins the content and services you'll find here.
Medical Intuition
Medical Intuitive is a non-specific term adopted by some healers to explain the use of extrasensory perceptions. In the world of healers, there is a culture of grouping therapists into packaged up modalities in order to place them into formalised roles and to consequently assume that their healing approach is the same. In reality, no two healers are truly the same.
I explain my medical intuition as gathering insight through 7 main layers - from basic pathophysiological disturbances to "othering" phenomena.