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Our graduates, in their own words.
Certified Natural Health Coach
Jasiel Monge
“I didn’t want another health tip. I wanted to understand the body. I wanted to know why symptoms showed up at all, why two people could run the same protocol and get completely different results, why someone could do everything ‘healthy’ and still feel stuck. Dr. Group, DC gave me language for the one thing I’d been sensing for nineteen years: symptoms are signals of a deeper imbalance.”Read Jasiel’s full story here
Board Certified Natural Health Coach
Dr. Rowen Pfeifer, DC
“The root cause of disease comes down to two things: internal toxicity and external toxicity. The toxic gut, the toxic liver, the parasites, the chemicals and heavy metals. These are the four instigators, the places where that toxicity accumulates. Once you understand that, everything else falls into place. The symptoms make sense. The protocols have a sequence. I had lived this truth in my own body for thirty-six years.”Read Dr. Pfeifer’s story
Certified Natural Health Coach
Dr. Tia Kansara
“What excited me wasn’t simply the prospect of learning more about natural health. It was the possibility of reconnecting with my own body, understanding its extraordinary intelligence and beginning to participate in my wellbeing rather than feeling helpless in the face of everything happening around me.”Read Dr. Tia’s full story

A message from Dr. Edward Group, DC
The world is ready for thousands of natural health coaches.
My work has always come back to one thing. Teach you the root cause of disease and how to reactivate your body’s own self-healing mechanism. And then provide you with the knowledge and tools to teach others how to do the same.
I have spent thirty years asking one question. What is actually causing this? Not the symptom, not the label on the chart, the cause underneath it. That question took me around the world, through ancient healing systems, and into the research that became everything we teach at the Global Healing Institute.
Your questions, answered.
Some students enroll to build a coaching career. Many more come to walk their own healing journey, or to better support a friend, family member, or loved one. Wherever you are on that path, here is everything you need to know before your call.
The Program
What is the Natural Health Coach Certification, and what does it mean?
The Natural Health Coach (NHC) Certification recognizes that you have completed the Global Healing Institute training program and demonstrated a working understanding of its health-coaching principles and root cause healing methodology.
It equips you to educate, support, and empower others through natural health coaching and lifestyle guidance, grounded in the root cause wellness principles of Dr. Edward Group, DC. Graduates put this certification to use in many ways:
- Building a professional coaching practice, one on one or in groups.
- Working in natural health food stores and wellness retail.
- Aligning with natural health professionals like chiropractors, massage therapists, and acupuncturists as a complementary root cause resource.
- Creating their own brand, from supplement lines to signature coaching programs.
- Becoming a thought leader on social media and in their community.
- Public speaking, including podcasts, interviews, summits, and live events.
- Writing, including books, blogs, newsletters, and educational content.
- Supporting family, friends, and loved ones with real root cause knowledge.
- Enhancing an existing career in the wellness or healthcare field.
Throughout, you become a knowledgeable guide and educator, while encouraging clients to work alongside licensed healthcare professionals when appropriate.
Graduates may also pursue Board Certification through the AANWC (American Association of Natural Wellness Coaches). The AANWC is the leading board certification organization for natural wellness coaches and accredits over one hundred schools. GHI is the exclusive host of the AANWCB Board Certification Exam Prep Course, and GHI graduates are eligible to apply for the board certification exam or the non-exam credential path.
Board certified coaches receive a verified digital credential through the Accredible platform. The credential is shareable, clickable, and verifiable in real time, so clients and employers can confirm your certification status instantly. Exam-passers are also added to the AANWC professional registry.
Graduates may also pursue affiliation with the Guardian Ecclesiastical Holistic Association (GEHA).
Please note: This certification does not provide a medical license or authorize you to diagnose, treat, prescribe, or practice medicine.
What makes the approach of Dr. Group, DC unique?
Dr. Group, DC teaches what no one else in the world teaches.
The entire certification is built around a root cause philosophy. The body was designed to heal itself. Everything blocking that healing lives in the internal environment or the external environment. The self-healing mechanism reactivates when the toxicity is cleansed.
What you will learn to do:
- Always think root cause.
- Trace health challenges back to internal and external toxicity and the four instigators: the toxic gut, the toxic liver, parasites, and chemicals and heavy metals.
- Understand the foundational role of gut health, detoxification, and cellular health.
- See how toxins, lifestyle, mindset, and environment each shape wellness.
- Educate clients on supporting the body’s innate ability to heal.
- Coach from a place of empowerment and personal responsibility.
For many graduates, the most valuable takeaway is learning to guide yourself and others toward genuine, lasting lifestyle change and personal responsibility for health. That is the heart of the program.
Is there a “right” age to begin?
There is no “right” age to begin. One of the most remarkable things about the Global Healing Institute is the range of our community. We have students as young as 18 and others well into their 80s, all learning side by side and sharing experiences, wisdom, and a common passion for health.
Some students are building or expanding a career. Others are supporting a friend or loved one. And many are walking their own healing journey. As Dr. Group, DC often says, he will always be a student, because learning never ends.
No matter where you are in life, if you have a desire to learn and help others, you will fit right in.
Time and Materials
How long will it take to complete the certification?
The NHC is a self-paced program. Some graduates finish in as little as three to six months, and others take a year or longer. With the required reading, videos, and coursework, the certification calls for an estimated minimum of 1,000 hours of study and application.
GHI was built this way with purpose. Self-learning for self-healing is at the heart of the vision and mission we share with our students. Knowledge learned is not the same as knowledge lived.
Students are encouraged to move thoughtfully, working through each course and protocol as part of their own healing and self-care before sharing that wisdom with others. There is no race to the finish.
What books are required for the certification?
Your required reading list includes:
- The World’s Healthiest Foods (1st Ed.) by George Mateljan.
- The Mucusless Diet Healing System by Arnold Ehret.
- The Secret to Health by Dr. Edward Group, DC.
- The Power of Fasting: The Key to Healing the Body, Mind, and Soul by Dr. Edward Group, DC.
- The Biology of Belief (newest edition) by Dr. Bruce Lipton.
- The Anatomy Coloring Book by Wynn Kapit and Lawrence M. Elson.
- Boom: The Business Coach Playbook by Clay Clark and Dr. Robert Zoellner.
- Health Coach: Your Right to Practice Guide (PDF, provided).
Learning and Support
Beyond the course materials, what else do students receive?
Every NHC student receives a full year of Healing Circle membership with Dr. Group, DC included (a $1,200 value). As a Healing Circle member, you will have:
- Two live community Zoom calls each month: a Masterclass and a Product Masterclass.
- Access to every Masterclass and Product Masterclass replay since 2021.
- A library of health protocols and teachings from Dr. Group, DC.
- Access to the private Healing Circle Telegram channel.
- Exclusive course and product discounts.
- Mini-courses and extra resources, including the Healing Tones of Dr. Group, DC.
- The “Ask Dr. Group, DC” chatbot resource.
- Access to the exclusive ancient healing library of Dr. Group, DC.
You will also join live monthly study halls with fellow students and graduates, plus a private Telegram channel reserved exclusively for NHC students and certified coaches.
Students connect, form study teams, and organize their own virtual and in-person meetups, all warmly encouraged. And our dedicated support team is available Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CST to help you navigate the platform, find resources, and answer program questions along the way.
Will I learn how to be a successful coach?
Yes. The certification is designed to give you both the knowledge and the confidence to support others on their health journeys. You will learn the core principles of root cause wellness, detoxification, nutrition, and lifestyle coaching. You will also build the skills at the heart of good coaching: listening well, building trust, and meeting people where they are.
Beyond the coursework, you will have access to study halls, Q&A sessions, and a community of like-minded people to support your growth. The certification gives you the foundation, tools, and framework to begin that journey with confidence.
What business training is included?
The certification includes practical business training so you can confidently begin working with clients after graduation. You will learn how to:
- Communicate effectively with clients and build trust.
- Conduct coaching sessions and ask the right questions.
- Develop genuine confidence as a coach.
- Present and educate in a clear, empowering way.
- Apply basic marketing and business-building strategies.
- Set up a website, build your online presence, and attract clients.
- Generate reviews and grow your local visibility.
The vision of Dr. Group, DC is to prepare you to build a practice you are proud of, with health-coaching education, foundational business guidance, live study halls, mentorship, and community support.
Your Practice
What will I be able to do with clients?
As a certified Natural Health Coach, you will educate, guide, support, and empower people to take responsibility for their own health by identifying and addressing root causes. You will help clients understand how factors like nutrition, detoxification, gut health, toxicity, lifestyle, stress, and environmental exposures affect their overall wellness, make informed choices, build healthier habits, and bring natural health principles into daily life.
I am already a health professional. How would this benefit my practice?
If you are already a health professional, this certification is designed to expand your practice with a root cause foundation that complements both conventional and holistic disciplines.
This program teaches that the root cause of all disease is internal and external toxicity. The toxic gut, the toxic liver, parasites, and chemicals and heavy metals are the four instigators, the places that toxicity accumulates. By understanding and addressing those underlying factors, you will be better equipped to educate, guide, and support your clients with greater confidence and lasting impact.
What is the earning potential for a health coach?
Earnings vary widely with your experience, specialization, location, and how you structure your work. As a general reference, national salary data shows health coaches in the U.S. typically earning in the $50K to $75K per year range in a stable job or private practice.
With more experience, a defined specialty, or a scalable model such as group programs and online courses, many coaches reach $80K to $150K or more. Entry-level or part-time work usually starts lower, especially when coaching hours are limited. You can explore current national health coach salary data here.
These figures reflect general U.S. industry ranges and are not a guarantee of income. What you earn will depend on your own effort, experience, and how you build your practice.
Enrollment and Policies
Do you offer financing or payment plans?
We do. The Global Healing Institute offers several payment options to make the certification accessible.
For U.S. residents, financing is available through Affirm and PayPal.
For international students, or U.S. residents who do not qualify for Affirm or PayPal credit, we offer a worldwide monthly payment plan at $369 per month for 12 months directly through GHI. No credit check. No third-party financing. Instant approval. Available to students anywhere in the world. View the worldwide monthly payment plan here.
Your advisory team will walk you through the options that fit your situation on your call.
I do not live in the United States. Can I take the certification?
Yes, absolutely. The Global Healing Institute serves a truly global audience, with students learning from all over the world. The worldwide monthly payment plan at $369 per month is designed for international students, and our advisors are in Austria, Canada and the United States.
Can I get a refund if it is not the right fit?
You may cancel within 14 days of beginning and receive a 100% refund, as long as less than 10% of your content has been viewed. On a payment plan, this refund applies to the first payment.
To request a refund, contact GHI customer support by email or phone and we will guide you through the process. If eligible, refunds are issued to your original payment method (minus any applicable processing fees) within a standard processing period.
Requests made outside the 14-day window, or after accessing more than 10% of the course, are not eligible.
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What if your own health journey was quietly preparing you to help someone else?
Nineteen years ago it started with a dream I have never been able to explain, and have never been able to set down. If you have ever sensed that symptoms are signals, that the body is built to restore balance, and that your own healing may be pointing toward something bigger than you, this story is for you.

For the person who already senses there is more beneath the symptoms.
I watched people try so hard to get healthy, and still feel like they were missing the real reason their body was struggling.
It started with a dream. An actual dream, and then another, and then more of them, vivid enough that I would wake up still inside them.
In those dreams I kept being shown the same thing. Parasites, and an internal imbalance, sitting underneath so much of the chronic illness people live with.
I had no language for it yet. No framework, no teacher, and no single book to point to. What I had was a knowing that stayed with me.
It was isolating. What I was seeing sat outside everything I had been taught about health, and there was no one I could explain it to. There were nights I lay awake asking myself why I was being shown this, and what I was supposed to do with it.
That is the part I rarely tell people. For a long time the dream felt less like a gift and more like a weight I was carrying alone.
But it sent me searching. And while I was chasing those questions, my own body was falling apart in slow motion.
Jasiel MongeCertified Natural Health CoachAnd then my own body started asking the same question.
The bloating arrived after meals I believed were healthy. The exhaustion stayed with me through every full night of sleep.
The fog was the hardest part. I would be in a conversation I cared about and feel myself fading out of it, watching my own life through frosted glass.
What made it harder is that I cared about health. I was the one doing the research, paying attention, trying. So when the same patterns came back around, a quiet thought crept in. Maybe my body is simply difficult.
I was satisfied managing symptoms I understood, and I still had no idea what I was missing.
And I know I am far from the only person who has lived inside that frustration.
They are trying. They are trying so hard.
If you have ever watched someone you love struggle with their health, or lived it yourself, you know how it feels to be doing everything right and still feel stuck.
Because that is the part most people miss. They are trying. They change their diet. They cut out the foods everyone calls bad. They buy the supplements, try the cleanse, drink more water, start walking, go gluten free, dairy free, sugar free. They listen to the podcasts, save the posts, follow the practitioners, and build a cabinet full of things that were supposed to help.
And sometimes something does help. For a few days they feel lighter. For a few weeks digestion improves. For a little while the energy comes back. So they think, maybe this is it.
Then the same patterns return. The bloating after meals. The exhaustion after a full night’s sleep. And with it, that discouraging thought. Why am I still dealing with this when I am doing so much right?
That is where it becomes easy to start believing the problem is you. That your body is simply difficult. That you need the next protocol, the next practitioner, the next test, the next product.
What if most of the things you were trying were simply starting too late in the chain?
That was the hardest truth I had to face. I had pieces. A cleanse here, a mineral routine there, a gut protocol, a food list, a nervous system practice. Every piece was real. Every piece was disconnected.
I was being my own practitioner, researcher, detective, and coach all at once, asking which piece mattered most, what to do first, and how to even hear what my body was asking for.
I wanted to understand the body itself. Why symptoms show up at all. Why two people run the same protocol and land in two different places. Why someone can do everything healthy and still feel stuck.
That search lasted years. Then, about a decade in, I came across Dr. Edward Group, DC.
Dr. Group, DC gave me language for the one thing I had been sensing for nineteen years: symptoms are signals.
A lot of people talk about natural health. What stopped me was that Dr. Group, DC named the exact thing I had been circling for years without being able to say it out loud.
Root cause.
Everyone who walks into this work arrives carrying something different. Fatigue for one person. Pain for the next. Weight, mood, sleep, fog, digestion, skin, anxiety. The symptoms are different every single time.
The root cause is the same every single time.
Two things sit underneath all of it. The toxicity in the external environment you live in, and the internal toxicity that has accumulated inside you over years and decades.
Once I saw health through that, I stopped treating symptoms as random problems to silence. I started reading them as messages. A body carrying a burden. A terrain asking to be cleansed, nourished, rested, and relieved of the load it is holding.
Here is the part that mattered most. Your body holds its own self-healing mechanism. The work was never to force health into it. The work is to clear the internal and external toxicity, restore what has been depleted, and create the conditions where the body does what it was already designed to do.
Jasiel MongeCertified Natural Health CoachMy gut settled. My energy came back. And the fog lifted.
The shift arrived in layers. My gut settled. My energy came back.
One ordinary day I realized I had been fully present in a conversation, easily, something I had long given up on.
Then something else happened, and it surprised me. Once I understood my own body through root cause, I began to see it in other people.
A friend would mention her digestion, her skin, her mood, and I would hear the deeper story underneath it. The one she was standing too close to see. The way I once had been.
That is when nineteen years of dreams stopped feeling like a weight. I finally understood what they had been preparing me for.
And maybe you feel a version of that pull too.
Maybe your healing journey was never only about you.
Maybe everything you have walked through has been preparing you to help someone else.
Maybe the years you spent researching were shaping something in you. The protocols, the late night searches, the books, the questions, the times you had to advocate for yourself.
Maybe the reason you keep returning to the body, the root cause, the food, the toxins, the terrain, the truth beneath the symptoms, is that this understanding was always meant to be shared.
Maybe you have healed enough to become the person someone else is praying to find. Someone who listens. Someone who sees the whole person. Someone who knows what it feels like to be dismissed, overwhelmed, or told everything looks normal while your body is clearly asking for something.

“That is how I came to see my own story. As preparation.”
And if you feel that same quiet pull, it may be because your healing journey is asking to become something more.
Jasiel MongeCertified Natural Health CoachWhat if the knowledge you have been gathering your whole life was always meant to be shared?

Dr. Rowen Pfeifer, DCBoard Certified Natural Health CoachFor the person who already knows that diet and lifestyle hold the real answers.
I spent decades studying nutrition, reading everything I could find, and watching people get sicker while doing what their doctors told them to do. And I knew there had to be a different path.
It started when I was a kid, and I had no idea anything was wrong.
I grew up chronically constipated my entire childhood. I was a poor student. I could barely focus. I graduated high school with a 1.98 GPA, dropped out of college after one semester, and spent years working in factories and playing in a band across the Midwest. I genuinely believed I was not a very bright person, and my grades confirmed that story.
What I did not know, and what nobody around me understood, was that my body was full of toxicity. My diet was terrible. My system was backed up. And every symptom I was living with, the foggy thinking, the low energy, the inability to perform, was my body signaling something deeper.
That is the part most people miss. The signals are there. The body is always communicating. And when nobody teaches you to read those signals, you spend years believing the problem is you.
I carried that belief for a long time. And honestly, it was isolating. Because even when I started searching, even when I began reading the Eastern philosophies and the Bhagavad Gita and the self-help books that called to me, I still did not have the language for what I was sensing. I just knew the answers I had been handed were incomplete.
Then, at age twenty-five, one line changed everything.
I was reading the Bible on my own, outside of any religion, just the text itself. And I came across the verse that says the body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. And for some reason that I still cannot fully explain, those words landed on my heart in a way nothing had before.
I went from a person who disliked reading to someone who devoured every book I could find. T.C. Fry. The American Natural Hygiene Society. Robert Mendelsohn. Distilled water fasting. Raw nutrition. Natural hygiene principles. One author led me to the next, and the next led me to the next, and I felt like I was being guided through a curriculum I did not design.
The knowledge was there. My body was still waiting for me to live it.
I went on to chiropractic school, built a practice, and poured myself into the work. I loved it. I still love it. And through all of that, I was studying nutrition on the side, reading ninety-nine percent about diet and lifestyle and one percent about chiropractic. That is where my heart was. That is where it has always been.
The stress of building a career and raising a family was real. And even with everything I had studied, I was not yet living it the way my body needed me to.
It came on slowly, then all at once.
The chronic constipation I had lived with my whole life began to escalate. Blood in the stool. Then blood and mucus. Then explosive diarrhea. It progressed over a period of years, and I kept pushing through until my body made that impossible.
A holistic medical doctor misdiagnosed me with a yeast infection and sent me home with nystatin. I got worse. My wife saw how badly I was declining and got me to the emergency room, where I spent a week with IVs in my arm replacing the electrolytes and fluids I had lost. They did a colonoscopy and diagnosed me with ulcerative colitis “bleeding ulcers of the colon”. Medically speaking, it was supposed to be incurable.
I went the medical route for about a year. Prednisone put the fire out temporarily. Every time they tapered the dose, the symptoms came roaring back. The medication could suppress the symptoms. It could not reach what was causing them.
And I knew, somewhere underneath the fear and the exhaustion, that the twelve years of study I had done were pointing me toward a different answer.
“Do what you already know to do.”
I spent that year in a lot of prayer. Personal prayer, intercessory prayer, altar calls. One day I was singing in a very large choir, and during the altar call I did not feel led to go forward. I just received a clear word, one of the only times in my life I have ever heard something that distinct.
“Do what you already know to do.”
I knew exactly what it meant. Every book I had read. Every principle I had studied. Every truth about how the body heals. It was all there, waiting for me to live it.
I stopped all the medication. I did a six-day distilled water fast. Then I moved into organic carrot-based vegetable juices and one hundred percent raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds.
My wife, who was a medical assistant, told me I could not do that. She said everybody knows that when you have a colon problem, you cannot eat roughage. And I said to her: that may be true, but all I know is it is the raw fruits and vegetables that have the nutrients my body needs to heal and get well.
Within two to three months, the ulcerative colitis was resolved. There were a couple of dips along the way. Some peaks and valleys. And then it was over.
That was over thirty-six years ago. I have not seen a medical doctor for anything health-related since.
The body carries its own healing intelligence.
It waits for the internal and external toxicity to be cleansed, and then it does what it was designed to do.
The years that followed taught me something I carry with me every day.
I started teaching every patient who would listen. I built a lending library in my chiropractic office, a big bookshelf where patients could purchase or borrow books, take one home, bring it back, and get another. Some made mild changes and got good results. The ones who changed everything got the results that still move me to talk about them today.
The healthier the body is, the better results you get on any kind of good therapy. I watched it happen over and over. When a patient showed up toxic, overweight, and running on medication, chiropractic could only do so much. When a patient showed up nourished, detoxified, and taking real responsibility for their health, everything worked better. The adjustments held longer. The healing came faster. The whole person came alive.
That principle became the center of my practice. And it taught me a truth that extends far beyond chiropractic: when the internal and external environment is clean, the self-healing mechanism reactivates. The body does the rest.
But there is one part of this story I need to share, because it is the most honest thing I can tell you.
I could not get my wife to come along on this path.
She understood it. She could explain it to you. She saw the results in me and in our patients. And for whatever reason, she would not or could not do it for herself. I pushed too hard in the beginning. I learned to back off. When she would mention a symptom, I would gently offer what I knew. She just never came around.
I lost her almost two years ago to Alzheimer’s and dementia. The truth I carry from that is simple, and it is the hardest truth in this work: you cannot force anyone to change. You can love them. You can be the living example. You can share what you know when the moment opens. And sometimes it is not enough. That is part of this path too.
If you have ever watched someone you love struggle with their health and felt the weight of knowing what could help them, you understand what I am saying.
That is also why I believe so deeply in education. In giving people the understanding, the framework, and the confidence to take responsibility for their own healing. The people who make the change are the ones who truly understand why the change matters.
Finding Dr. Group, DC was like hearing my own voice confirmed by someone with the research and the framework to take it further.
I had been doing this for over fifty years by the time I came across Dr. Edward Group, DC. I had seen his videos, watched him in docu-series, and kept noticing that he was saying everything I had studied and lived for decades. The same principles. The same understanding. The same respect for the body’s own intelligence.
What Dr. Group, DC gave me was a framework I had always sensed.
The root cause of disease comes down to two things: internal toxicity and external toxicity. The toxic gut, the toxic liver, the parasites, the chemicals and heavy metals. These are the four instigators, the places where that toxicity accumulates. Once you understand that, everything else falls into place. The symptoms make sense. The protocols have a sequence. And the body’s self-healing mechanism, which was always there, has a clear path to reactivate.
I had lived this truth in my own body for thirty-six years. Dr. Group, DC gave it a name, a structure, and a community to carry it forward.
Getting certified at seventy-six was one of the best decisions I have ever made.
I went through the Natural Health Coach Certification knowing most of the material already. Fifty years of study will do that. I completed it in about eight weeks. And I want to be honest: I do not expect most people to move that fast. If I had not had that background, I would have spent six to eight months going through the courses, because there is a tremendous amount of depth in them.
What surprised me were the things I did not know yet. New ideas, new perspectives, deeper understanding of areas I had only touched on the surface. That is the mark of a strong program. Even someone with five decades of study walks away with something new.
And then there is the part I did not expect at all: the community.
When I was healing from ulcerative colitis thirty-six years ago, the journey was lonely. There was no one to talk to. No Telegram channels. No social media. No group of coaches who understood what I was going through. I had cassette tapes. I had books. And I had a wife who did not fully understand what I was doing. That was it.
The Global Healing Institute changed that completely. Getting my certificate, joining the Telegram channels, interacting with other coaches who are living this work and building their practices, it has pumped me up to a level I have not felt before. The support is real. The friendships are real. And the brainstorming and training the Institute provides to help coaches build their work is constant and genuine.
If I had had this community thirty-six years ago, my entire journey would have been different. It exists now. And that matters more than I can say.
Maybe everything you have studied has been preparing you for something larger than your own health.
I know what it feels like to carry this knowledge alone. To be the person in the room who sees what nobody else sees. To love someone who will not change, and to keep believing in the work anyway. To spend decades studying, searching, reading, and never quite knowing what to do with everything you have gathered.
That is where I lived for most of my life. And if that sounds familiar to you, I want you to know: you are not behind. You are exactly where your preparation has brought you.
Maybe the years of reading were not random. Maybe the late nights researching, the books that found their way into your hands, the quiet knowing that diet and lifestyle hold the real answers to health, maybe all of that was shaping something in you. A readiness. A depth. A calling you can feel even if you have not named it yet.
The people who need this work are everywhere. I see them every day in my practice. Eighty-five to ninety percent of the patients who walk through my door are significantly over their ideal weight. They are in pain. They are exhausted. And they have been trained to believe that medication is the answer, that the problem lives outside their control.
Someone needs to teach them the truth. Someone who has lived it. Someone who has walked through their own healing and come out the other side with the understanding, the compassion, and the framework to guide others.
That person may be you.
If you are going to guide people toward their health, the path you take matters.
My goal now is to transition ninety percent of my working time into health coaching, teaching, and educating people through every channel I can reach. I want to travel, work from wherever I am, and do one-on-one coaching through Zoom with people who are ready to take real responsibility for their health.
I am seventy-six years old. I have practiced chiropractic for almost forty years. And the truth I have arrived at is the same truth that landed on my heart at twenty-five: the body is sacred, it carries its own healing intelligence, and when you clear the toxicity and give it what it needs, it does what it was designed to do.
The Board Certified Natural Health Coach Certification with Dr. Group, DC is the framework, the credential, and the community that turns the knowledge you have been carrying into a practice you can build with confidence.
Here is what that means for you.
The next time someone describes their exhaustion, their brain fog, their chronic pain, you will know what their body has been carrying. You will know the questions to ask and the framework to guide them through.
The years of study stop being scattered pieces and become a structured, credentialed practice grounded in root cause. Everything you have learned finally has a home.
You get to guide people with confidence and warmth, helping them see the deeper truth underneath their symptoms. You become the person who helps them understand what their body is asking for.
The most powerful healing agent known to man is already inside you. That is the body’s own self-healing mechanism. The certification with Dr. Group, DC teaches you how to help others reactivate that mechanism and take real ownership of their health. We do not fish for you. We teach you how to fish.
The choice is clear. You can keep gathering knowledge on your own, trusting that the pieces will organize themselves someday. Or you can step onto a path built to make you trained, certified, supported, and ready to guide others with real clarity and earned authority.
If this is the work you already feel drawn to, this is where you stop being the person who knows, and become the person who is equipped.
From Self-Healing to Healing the Earth
My Journey with Dr. Edward Group, DC and the Global Healing Institute

In 2023, when I first came across the course from Dr. Group, DC, I was living through one of the most challenging periods of my life.
I was completely depleted. My nervous system felt as though it had been operating in survival mode for so long that I had almost forgotten what it meant to feel at peace. There was a constant tightness in my solar plexus, a sensation I can only describe as carrying the weight of circumstances I could neither control nor escape.
What troubled me most was the feeling that I had lost my connection with the divine. I have always believed in the sacred intelligence of life, in nature, in the extraordinary relationship between our physical bodies and our spiritual existence. Yet I found myself struggling to access that connection.
My life had become consumed by events that seemed to have a momentum of their own. So much of my energy was directed towards simply getting through each day that there was little room left for curiosity, joy or even imagining a different future.
It felt like a nightmare at times.
And perhaps the most difficult part was recognising that, despite everything I knew about the world, sustainability and the importance of living in alignment with nature, I had somehow lost that alignment within myself.
I was advocating for the regeneration of the planet while desperately needing regeneration in my own life.
I remember feeling as though there was no breath left in me.
When life becomes overwhelmingly difficult, our imagination can become very small. We stop imagining possibilities because all our energy is consumed by what is immediately in front of us.
And then I came across the course from Dr. Group, DC.
I cannot explain it entirely rationally, but something inside me lit up. I felt what I call a full-body yes.
It is a very particular sensation, almost as though the body recognises an opportunity before the mind has constructed an explanation for it.
Over the years I have learned to pay attention to these moments of intuition or sensation. They are not always convenient, and they rarely arrive when life is neatly organised. But they have often led me towards some of my most important experiences.
This was one of them.
What excited me wasn’t simply the prospect of learning more about natural health. It was the possibility of reconnecting with my own body, understanding its extraordinary intelligence and beginning to participate in my wellbeing rather than feeling helpless in the face of everything happening around me.
For the first time in a long while, I felt genuinely curious about something again.
That curiosity was a gift.
I won’t lie. I found the prospect of completing the course quite daunting.
The material was extensive, some of the subjects were incredibly detailed, and I was already carrying an enormous amount of stress.
There were moments when I wondered whether adding another commitment to my life was the wisest thing to do, particularly when nothing in my external circumstances had changed.
But something interesting happened as I began studying.
Instead of experiencing the course as simply another obligation, I found myself becoming increasingly curious. I wanted to understand how the body worked, how our internal environment interacted with the world around us, and how small changes might influence the way we experience our health.
I began introducing little experiments into my everyday life, paying closer attention to how I felt, what supported my energy and what seemed to deplete it.
And I found myself having fun.
That might sound like a small thing, but when you have been through a prolonged period of difficulty, rediscovering the pleasure of learning and experimenting is enormously significant.
The course reminded me that I could still choose where to place my attention. I could still learn. I could still grow.
My circumstances hadn’t suddenly transformed, but my relationship with myself was beginning to change.
I discovered Dr. Group, DC online, and I found his work incredibly enriching.
What immediately resonated with me was his emphasis on understanding the conditions that support health rather than looking at the body as a collection of disconnected symptoms.
His focus on the body’s internal and external environments particularly interested me.
My own professional work has centred on a remarkably similar question, although at a different scale: how do the environments we create influence the health and wellbeing of the people and ecosystems living within them?
Through Replenish Earth, I have spent years exploring how buildings, cities, food systems, economies and our relationships with nature can either diminish life or help it flourish.
The teachings of Dr. Group, DC encouraged me to bring that same curiosity inward.
The human body is itself an extraordinary ecosystem. It is constantly responding, adapting, communicating and seeking equilibrium.
I was fascinated by the relationship between our daily choices, our environment and our physiological resilience.
I also appreciated the emphasis on taking an active role in our own health. For me, this isn’t about rejecting medicine or pretending that every condition has a simple solution. It is about developing a deeper understanding of ourselves and recognising that we can participate meaningfully in our wellbeing.
There were many moments during the course when I found myself recognising connections between the principles I was studying and the regenerative systems I had spent so much of my professional life exploring.
It felt like two important parts of my world were finally meeting.
The hardest part was learning how to look after myself while still living through circumstances that were deeply distressing.
I think we sometimes imagine healing as something that begins once the difficult chapter is over. Once the stress has disappeared, once the uncertainty has been resolved, once we finally have the space and time to concentrate on ourselves.
But life doesn’t always offer us that luxury.
There were days when even the simplest things required tremendous effort. Days when my concentration was poor, my energy was low and my mind felt overwhelmed.
The real challenge was learning that I didn’t have to wait for everything around me to become peaceful before beginning to cultivate some peace within myself.
I also had to confront something quite personal.
I have spent much of my life working on ambitious ideas, travelling, building projects, working with extraordinary people and thinking about how we might transform the world.
I was much more accustomed to giving my energy to something than asking what might replenish it.
The course helped me recognise the importance of turning some of that attention towards myself.
What kept me going was curiosity, faith and a growing understanding that even small acts of self-care can become meaningful when practised consistently.
I began to appreciate that healing is not necessarily a dramatic event. Sometimes it is a quieter process of learning to listen to ourselves again.
And perhaps most importantly, I began to understand that caring for myself was not a distraction from my purpose. It was part of it.
I don’t think there was one dramatic moment when everything changed.
For me, the shift was more gradual, and in some ways more profound because of that.
I began to recognise how much of my attention had been directed towards external circumstances and how little I had been giving to the signals coming from my own body.
I started thinking differently about my energy, my breath, my sleep, my emotions and the relationship between my inner and outer environments.
There was something deeply reassuring about studying the body’s capacity to maintain balance, repair tissue, regulate itself and respond to supportive conditions.
It reminded me of what I had observed in nature throughout my life.
A forest has extraordinary regenerative capacity when its ecological relationships are protected. Soil can become fertile again when we restore the conditions that support life. A damaged ecosystem can sometimes recover in ways that are almost miraculous.
Of course, human health is far more complex than any single analogy, and not every illness can be reversed through lifestyle changes. But the underlying lesson resonated deeply with me.
We are not separate from nature.
Our bodies are living expressions of the same extraordinary biological intelligence that surrounds us.
The turning point was recognising that I could begin working with that intelligence rather than constantly fighting against my circumstances.
I began asking a different question.
Instead of asking only, “What is happening to me?” I started asking, “What conditions can I create that allow me to flourish, even now?”
That question changed a great deal.
I think I have become more compassionate towards myself.
That might sound surprising because I have always cared deeply about people, communities and the planet. But there is a difference between extending compassion outwards and allowing ourselves to receive it.
I am learning that distinction.
I have also developed a much deeper appreciation for the connection between our physical wellbeing, our emotional lives, our environment and our spiritual practices.
My faith in the divine has always been an important part of my life, but I now find myself approaching that relationship through a more embodied understanding.
Through breath, attention, gratitude, the natural world and the everyday choices that bring us back into alignment.
I have become more interested in the relationship between science and spirituality, particularly where physiology, consciousness and our experience of being alive intersect.
Most importantly, my sense of purpose has become more integrated.
I no longer see the healing of the individual and the healing of the planet as separate ambitions.
They are deeply connected.
The same patterns that leave individuals exhausted, disconnected and depleted can also be found in the systems we have created around us.
And the principles of regeneration, restoring healthy relationships, respecting natural rhythms and creating conditions in which life can flourish, have relevance at both scales.
I am still learning, still navigating challenges and still discovering new dimensions of this work.
But I have a much clearer sense of what I want to contribute.
I feel particularly called to support women who have spent so much of their lives giving to others that they have gradually lost touch with their own needs, rhythms and inner wisdom.
Women are extraordinary at holding things together.
We hold families, relationships, businesses, communities and often the emotional wellbeing of everyone around us.
But who holds us?
I think there are many women who appear incredibly capable from the outside while privately feeling exhausted, disconnected or overwhelmed.
I recognise something of my own experience in that.
I want to contribute to a world in which women feel more informed about their bodies, more confident in making decisions about their wellbeing and more connected to the natural cycles of life.
I am particularly interested in helping women rediscover curiosity about their own health, without shame, fear or the expectation that they must achieve some impossible standard of perfection.
The gift I hope to bring back is not the idea that I have all the answers.
It is the encouragement to begin asking better questions, to become active participants in our wellbeing and to remember that our lives can contain joy, wonder and possibility even after extraordinarily difficult experiences.
I want women to feel that their health belongs to them, and that knowledge can be a powerful form of freedom.
I am working on two interconnected initiatives that reflect my belief that personal wellbeing and planetary regeneration belong in the same conversation.
The first is Replenish Earth, which I founded around the principle of Net Positive: the idea that we should aspire to give back more than we take.
For many years, our discussions about sustainability have focused on reducing damage, consuming less and minimising our environmental footprint.
Those are important objectives, but I have always felt that we could ask a more ambitious question.
What if our buildings, communities, businesses and everyday ways of living could actively contribute to the regeneration of the natural world?
What if human prosperity and ecological flourishing were not opposing forces?
Replenish Earth explores these questions through regenerative design, education, systems thinking and the development of ideas and practices that support healthier relationships between people and the planet.
My studies with Dr. Group, DC have added another fascinating dimension to this work, encouraging me to think even more deeply about the relationship between human biology and the environments in which we live.
The second initiative is Wild Woman, a digital platform designed to help women reconnect with their bodies, their natural rhythms and their own intelligence.
Wild Woman is inspired by a simple observation: women move through extraordinary biological and emotional transitions throughout their lives, yet so much of the information available to them is fragmented, confusing or disconnected from their lived experience.
I envision Wild Woman as a lifelong companion, supporting women from their first menstrual cycles through motherhood, menopause and the wisdom of later life.
It brings together natural-health education, scientific knowledge, personal tracking, artificial intelligence and the collective wisdom of women.
I am particularly excited about the potential for technology to become a more compassionate tool, one that encourages women to understand themselves rather than simply collecting more data about them.
But there is also a deeper intention behind Wild Woman.
I want to celebrate the relationship between women and nature, between our biological rhythms and the cycles of the living world.
For me, the word wild does not mean uncontrolled.
It means connected to something original, intuitive and alive.
Both projects emerge from the same conviction: regeneration begins when we restore our relationship with life.
Whether we are caring for our own bodies, supporting another person or designing the systems that shape our planet, we have an opportunity to create conditions in which life can flourish.
You can explore these projects at:
Replenish Earth: www.replenish.earth
Wild Woman: www.wildwoman.app
I would want them to know that they don’t have to have their life figured out before they begin.
You don’t have to be feeling strong. You don’t have to be healthy, happy or spiritually connected every moment of the day.
You can be exhausted. You can be frightened. You can feel completely overwhelmed by circumstances beyond your control.
And you can still begin.
Sometimes the smallest expression of curiosity is the first indication that something within us is ready for change.
When I came across the course from Dr. Group, DC, I didn’t have a clear plan for how it would fit into my life. I simply felt something awaken in me that I hadn’t experienced for a long time.
I followed that feeling.
And I am grateful that I did.
I would also encourage people not to measure their progress only by what has changed on the outside.
There is tremendous value in becoming more attentive to your body, more curious about your wellbeing and more compassionate towards yourself.
Learning to care for yourself is not selfish. It is one of the ways we become better able to care for others.
And finally, I would say this.
We are part of an extraordinarily intelligent living world. We are made of the same elements, sustained by the same ecological relationships and dependent upon the same rhythms of life as everything around us.
When we begin to restore our relationship with our own bodies, we may also discover a deeper sense of responsibility towards the world that sustains us.
That, to me, is the beautiful possibility of this journey.
That healing ourselves and replenishing the Earth might be two expressions of the same act of love.
Dr. Tia KansaraCertified Natural Health CoachBoth projects emerge from the same conviction: regeneration begins when we restore our relationship with life.