SOME BACKGROUND

A journalism graduate, I have written for newspapers and magazines, been a business and corporate writer, speechwriter, and book editor. I was the national director of public relations for a hotel chain before opening an event planning and writing company, Grand Events, which ran for almost 20 years.

Upon retiring, I followed my longtime passion for gardening and growing food. I wrote a garden column for a national newspaper and a blog for a gardening magazine before co-authoring with Dan Cooper to write Gardening from a Hammock, a practical guide to low-maintenance gardening.

As a longtime Kripalu yoga student and teacher, I have a profound interest in learning how to heal with the mind, body and spirit.

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THE STORY BEHIND THE WEBSITE

 My most serious work has been researching with my husband John Park, the ways to help our epileptic son. 

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When our son was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 13, he tried one anticonvulsant drug after another, each producing numbing side-effects that affected his personality, memory and mood and none of which prevented seizures. During the next two decades he explored a myriad of alternatives: severe diet restrictions, electronic stimulus, light therapy, talk therapy, shamans and medical intuitives. Many of these worked for short periods of times. Then he learned about CBD oil and Cannabis strains highly slanted toward CBD, which to date, combined with a small pharmaceutical dose of Tegretol, has worked the best. 

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Based on these results, we became aware of the benefits of Cannabis, but it wasn't until co-authoring
Healing Cannabis Edibles, that I learned just how much more  powerful Cannabis can be when its potential is understood. 

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