my CA education

This is Cortnisco here. Ya, I am not super impressed by my personal Brazilian soccer name. It sounds sort of like Crisco. But, I'll try it on for the day just to see where it takes me....

Gosh, I have to admit that I am an every-other-month blogger. Frequently I am lying in bed at night running the beginning of blog posts through my head. Every now and again I come up with a really good starter line and think to myself that I should get up and write it down so that I can remember it and go with it in the morning, But, always, by that time I am too tired and reassure my easily deceived mind that I will remember it when I wake up.

So, this month, I am racking my brain....what should I blog about, what should I blog about, hoping something amazing will happen or that I can transform and relate a simple event into an inspirational one. But, hey, even though it is that holiday time, nothing is falling from the sky beaming with blog worthiness.

After all this jibber jabber in my mind, I am laughing at myself. Why am I looking for something life altering to write about? Most events are not as such.

So instead of waiting for a revelation, I wanted to simply reflect on how grateful and how lucky I am to have CAN and its members and a few wonderful mentors be a consistent and solid part of my education.

I discovered CA before the end of my first year of school. And, it was love at first explanation. Since then, I knew exactly how I wanted to practice acupuncture. I knew how I could gradually change healthcare and not contribute to the already messed up system. And, I knew how I could have a socially just business and treat the patients I wanted to treat and not sell out to make money and to be able to have compassion and provide a service to many many people who are without healthcare and who do not want charity and so forth and so on.

I often say to people, from day one, CA "just made sense" to me. And, oh, how great it is when something just makes sense and there are no lingering doubts.

I have been able to watch it grow. I often show my partner the list of CA clinics as the number continues to rise steadily and he watches as I get so excited because I just knew right away, from day one, that this would be the case. And, being in school, and not being able to practice the model (quite yet) I am forced to wait patiently (patiently may be exaggerating) and to get ever so excited for others benefitting from this model (patients and practitioners).

It has been interesting to see classmates wrap their minds around CA. Some learn about the model and are at once excited. Others have been trying to wrap their minds around it for the last couple years and still cannot seem to fully take the plunge into the CA world. Should they have to? Of course not. Do I still want them to? Of course. Have I wanted to grab some of them by the shoulders and shake the sense into them? Yes.

So, here I am, nearing my last months of school. (about 9 left) And, how grateful I am to have had CA as a major (a huge!) part of my education. All acu-students should have the same (but that takes time....).

And how much more calm and excited I am to join the full-fledged CA practicing acupuncturists out there when I have completed my schooling.

So, here's a little holiday-winter toast to CAN. Oh how glad I am that it is a huge part of my life!