Bold Journey Article - Meet Christina Chambreau
We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Christina Chambreau a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Christina, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.
My purpose is to empower people to heal themselves and their animals in ways that heal the planet.
From age 11 I seemed to be led to the purpose that I fully realized in my mid to late thirties. Living on an air base in Japan, I visited the base veterinary clinic to get help with a science fair project on worms and became interested in what was going on there. After a summer of working (base pay for kids was a quarter per hour) in the clinic I knew I wanted to become a veterinarian. Our next base was in New Jersey and I continued to work in clinics, then going to Colorado for my pre-veterinary classes (driving cross country alone, pulling my horse in a trailer and camping out). In 1970 I was told not to apply to vet school because they only took two women in a class of 100 and my grades were good for a man, but not for a woman. After helping my family in New Jersey, I decided to attend pharmacy school at the University of Georgia in case I could not get into their veterinary school. A year later I matriculated in the veterinary school and took the est training in NYC, which later introduced me to The Hunger Project. After graduating, I was introduced to Homeopathic Medicine for animals and became one of the first 20 or so practicing in the United States. Concurrently I was loving leading Ending Hunger Briefings for The Hunger Project and training new leaders.
When a client asked me to speak to her home church group, I felt comfortable in front of the room and had a lot of fun. Within three years I was clear that the universe/angels/light beings/my karma – had clearly propelled me to my purpose – “to empower people to heal themselves and their animals”. As time went on and I more constantly lived in relationship with all life, looking for more sustainability, I added “In ways that heal the planet.” Recently, working with Landmark Education’s Wisdom Course I realized while that was my purpose, my goal is that every person on the planet would know there were many approaches to health and any one of them may be needed for each animal, plant, person, ocean water, etc.
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