For most of her life, Dr. Melinda Connor has been a combination Renaissance Woman and Pioneer Mover and Shaker. Never one to follow a preset path, Dr. Connor has forged her own way through multiple university degrees, theater performances, employment with IBM, and her own holistic consulting firm. Originally conceived in 1987, since 2003, Dr. Connor's EarthSongs Holistic Consulting office has found its headquarters in Tucson, Arizona. The motto here is, 'Exceptional solutions for exceptional situations.'
The word 'exceptional' can just as readily be applied to Dr. Connor herself. Her ability to wear many hats and juggle numerous responsibilities is remarkable. Dr. Connor is a fellow of the American Alternative Medicine Association through which she is board certified. As she is also acknowledged internationally, she is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in the U.K. She simultaneously manages her busy center, EarthSongs Holistic Consulting, while publishing and acting as executive director of The International Journal of Healing and Caring online, which is widely read both in the U.S. and across the world. Her passion for supporting holistic health, and for spreading the word of its undeniable value to human health and wellness, has propelled her into the role of well-recognized spokesperson for alternative medicine.
As such, Dr. Connor has been instrumental in working to establish recognized safety standards for energy medicine practitioners in the US. For many years, the public has been reserved in its acceptance of alternative practices, often because practitioners traditionally were not required to prove their expertise and validity. A medical doctor with M.D. after the name could at least claim to have met recognized standards for safe care. Dr. Connor has committed herself to putting public distrust to rest by requiring all types of alternative practitioners to subscribe to equally high standards of care. Through her efforts, eleven clearly defined divisions of energy styles are now delineated, as are their respective standards of care. She has also put in place a peer-reviewed published empirical test that establishes whether an individual energy practitioner is genuine.
Unlike at many health care offices, in Dr. Connor's office, the individual is approached as a unique patient with unique needs. Great care and time go into establishing the nature of the challenges and determining the most appropriate support for recovery. Mutual communication and understanding are central to the EarthSongs experience, as is absolute honesty and mutual trust. Simply put, because each person is recognized as unique, support for that person must likewise be tailored to them.
Dr. Connor has also used her time to publish a number of important books on various elements of holistic healing. For those interested in learning more about energy practices, these books are an invaluable resource. They are available on Amazon, iBooks, Barnes &Noble and through the publisher Lulu Press.
Taken together, all these many accomplishments of Dr. Melinda Connor easily explain why she is highlighted here. Dr. Connor has ultimately dedicated her life and talents to improving the health of innumerable people. She has been instrumental in establishing alternative medicine as a respectable alternative and support to allopathic medicine, finding ways to deal with maladies that often fail to respond to pharmaceuticals and other mainstream approaches. It is not too much to say that Dr. Connor herself embodies her motto, 'Exceptional solutions for exceptional situations.'
