Linda Mac Dougall M.A. Psychology, B.A. Anthropology, Holistic Health Practitioner, Massage Therapist

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Linda Mac Dougall Quick Facts

Main Areas: Medically oriented massage, enzyme therapy, nutrition for seniors
Career Focus: Bodywork, teaching, training, writing, speaking, and researching health topics, business owner.
Affiliation: ABMP, Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurses Association

This is where I am today:

I have recently published an e-book, "The 'S.P.I.R.I.T.' Method of Massage for Seniors", geared to both massage therapists and to anyone working with seniors and the disabled. I plan on speaking, training, mentoring, and teaching classes from my book and from my experiences with seniors and with a senior body. Since I have a background in psychology, there is a focus on understanding aging, the obstacles seniors enoucnter, their time of life, and the trials of aging minds and aging bodies.

I am a Holistic Health Practitioner, Massage Therapist, and teach, train, speak, and coach toward healthy outcomes.

I have also done a training for SCE in Orange county on safety in the workplace. The perspective was unique as it focused on the personal responsibility of the worker, and the proper support of the feet so they were more stable in their daily activities.

This is the path I have taken to arrive there. I have been an

Advocate for Persons with Disabilities and Health Researcher for Hawaii's state Protection & Advocacy agency.

Administrator of two 15 bed homes for United Cerebral Palsy with 30+ staff

Member of the United Cerebral Palsy Training Team - Human relations areas:

Problem solving and Mediation

Counseling/ Educating/Training/Leadership Development

Hiring / Termination

Staff morale and advocacy for clients, staff, and guardians.

Community relations involving persons with disabilities, parents, vendors, consultants, service organizations, donors, Department of Health Services and Tri-Counties Regional Center.

Fund Raising

Internship: Vista del Mar Hospital in the Addictions Medicine Unit

11 years instructing and/or aiding in special education classrooms at Camarillo State Hospital with individuals having Autism, Department of Justice DD inmates, Down Syndrome, Mental Illness, etc.

1 1/2 years in the juvenile justice system at Ventura School

Buena Ventura Academy for children with developmental disabilities

Houghton Home for individuals with developmental disabilities

With this background it has been a fairly easy transition to seniors with health issues, the injured, and those who have orthopedic or medical conditions such as fibromyalgia. It has been a privilege to gain the trust of such clients.

Other Programs & Highlights

I represent a few very reputable nutritional companies. Designs for Health is a company whose supplements have been designed by natural doctors for their patients. Create an patient account on their site and name me as your practitioner so you can gain access to their catalogue.

I also work with systemic enzymes and have used them myself for many years to work pain free with my herniated disc. Contact me for further information of the many benefits of this foundational supplement and the brand that is effective.

I am now a rep for Forward Arch corrective orthotics. Supports all three foot arches and get the muscles to work again, strengthening the entire foot. No foot casts and not measured by shoe size, but by arch size. You stand straighter and pain goes away with proper alignment.

I have added Tate's All Natural Miracle Conditioner line of products with no mystery ingredients. LifeForce and their liquid products for easier absorption are also natural products that I represent.

Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Linda Mac Dougall

I love the puzzle of the body, the body and mind interaction, and how nutrition supports both. If the mind and body are lacking what they need to thrive, the spirit is suffering as well. As they are but reflections of one another, what affects one will affect all for better or worse.

There have been cases of juvenile delinquents that ,when supported nutritionally, have become interested students. Some who have been lost in developmental delays have surfaced when yeasts, bacterial or viral infections, parasites, allergies, toxins or leaky gut problems have been identified and treated. And seniors with vascular dementia brought back through enzyme therapy.

We have to look in order to find. We have to question what is. We have to listen and observe. And we have to share what we know to those who follow so knowledge is not lost.