Hello, my name is Amanda Goodfellow. After graduating from York University with a BSc in Biology and changing career paths from Animal to Human Medicine – I graduated from Centennial Colleges Paramedic Program in 2009. Since then, I have been working full time as an Advanced Care Paramedic. It became quite clear to me early on in my career the limitations of our health care system. I found that most of my patients were unable to actually sit down and have a conversation with their health care providers. This resulted in many patients being confused about treatments and options of certain conditions they had. Most never considered the question “What has led me to this point?”.  I truly believe that health care today is very much symptom relief based rather than problem solution focused. With that in mind, I set off to become a more well rounded and educated individual. Never being a religious person, I started a spiritual journey rather than religious one though Hatha Yoga and completed a teacher training program. Along the same theme of the mind,  I enrolled in many (probably too many) certificate courses in mental health training and became a member of my regions Critical Incident Stress Management Team (CISM) and Peer Support Team. To complete my mind-body-spirit journey, I enrolled in NutraPhorias Holistic Nutrition Program in hopes that the knowledge I will gain will help my current and future interactions with people in addition to creating balance in my own mind-body-spirit health.