| Leland, NC
Tidal Passions: Creating Health in North Brunswick County
By Christina Sue Gurtowsky
Published Summer 2008
Karen Burrows of Brunswick County recalls practically planning her own funeral 11 years ago, as she had fallen seriously ill due to autoimmune disease, neurological lyme disease and an aggressive basal cell cancer. Unable to work, let alone get in or out of her car, Karen was left with no choice but to step down from her teaching career of nearly two decades.
In addition to coming to terms with the disheartening thought that her life was entirely out of her hands, Karen was faced with severe health declines within each of her children. Constantly in and out the emergency room for unexplainable illnesses, the Burrows family struggled for any sign of stability as they fought to reclaim what was once upon a time a healthy, happy family.
“My children were so sick and no one could figure out what was going on with us,” says Karen. “I had my kids in and out of the emergency room constantly. It seemed like every week something was happening.”
Nearing complete devastation, Karen decided to explore solutions for wellness outside of the conventional medical system. Shortly thereafter, she was referred to a woman who was well-educated in the daily use of natural supplements as well as general nutrition.
“When she first proposed the use of supplements, I was really hesitant about the whole idea,” Karen explains. “I remember being like, whoa, wait a minute, we have taken supplements before and as a result become seriously ill.”
Karen continues in her explanation: “The woman then explained there was a huge difference in the quality of different supplements, pointing out the difference between whole-food supplements versus synthetic supplements. Suddenly it all started to really make sense to me.”
The woman advocating these tips for healthier living was talking about Shaklee brand whole-food supplements. Desperate and mentally exhausted from searching for answers to account for so much sickness, Karen decided to give the whole-food supplements a shot. She unexpectedly experienced a massive improvement in her health within only a few days of starting the supplements.
“Within two days of starting the supplements, I could literally feel my body start to change. They truly saved my life,” says Karen.
“I put my whole family on them, including my husband, who was then able as a result to get off his blood pressure medication,” adds Karen. “And the kids no longer had to make to make trips the emergency room. Now, if we catch a cold, it’s like wow, what did we do wrong, because we just don’t get sick anymore.”
There was no longer any slaving with daily prescription medications. There wasn’t any need for emergency hospital visits either. Shaklee whole-food supplements, along with better nutrition, led the Burrows family away from the dead-end street of deteriorating health and onto a more vibrant path of optimum wellness.
Things were back to the way they were supposed to be, and the Burrows family was healthy, claiming to have felt the best they had in a long time. But Karen Burrows did not stop there.
“As an educator, I didn’t feel comfortable just going by what the company was telling me and the information I was getting from them,” explains Karen. “I needed to know more, so I actually went back from scratch and got my undergraduate degree and my doctorate degree in Holistic Nutrition.”
Karen and her husband went on to create a unique business for the purpose of wellness, which they coined “Tidal Passions International.” Tidal Passions International introduces ideas for wellness through means of natural resources. They offer nutritional consulting for individuals interested in commitment to wellness and optimal health and they provide corporate presentations on nonspecific and specific health topics.
“I chose the name Tidal Passions because I’m an ocean girl,” says Karen. “The passion that I feel from the ocean, the waves, the consistency and the strength just fit for what I wanted my business to specifically represent—the strength, the longevity and the passion of living.”
Tidal Passions International has two areas, focusing primarily on the aspects of marketing and holistic healing. The marketing division is where the company partners with Shaklee, aiming to educate individuals rather than simply sell their products. The holistic area of Tidal Passions provides healings arts, such as the biofeedback and nutritional consulting.
In accordance with the company, whose main aim is to educate clients, not sell products, Karen states: “I don’t cure. I don’t diagnose. I don’t treat. I don’t do any of those things. I help you and your body start to heal itself. I don’t want people to be my clients forever; ideally I want them to be educated enough so they can say: ‘I can learn this on my own.’
“We are living in a society where we are being convinced we are ill and diseased because of the money to be made, since there is no money to be made in healthy people, at least not from a pharmaceutical point of view. There is a time and a place for pharmaceuticals. In general, physicians are there to help us and heal us, but we need to work in conjunction with each other, and no longer perceive each other as a threat.”
Through children’s programs and various nutritional packages, Tidal Passions aims to present ideas for nutritious meals that are able to rebuild and help prevent disease, injury and illness, as well as aiding in the elimination of habits that may be inhibiting overall health.
In conjunction with the healing arts of Tidal Passions, Karen introduced the EPFX Biofeedback device to aid in the dealing with the stressors in clients’ lives that can affect their health, as well as significantly impair their emotional growth.
“I added the quantum biofeedback because I wanted to get to a deeper level of helping people heal themselves,” says Karen. “And through biofeedback, I can get to a lot of deeper issues than I would through general nutrition.”
The goals of biofeedback are to maintain a stable internal environment by mediating digestion, temperature and blood pressure; mediating emotional expressions, such as palpitations of the heart, clammy hands and blushing; and promoting higher conscious processes that also influence autonomic regulation via neo-cortical, limbic and thalamic projections.
“I try to educate, go into people’s homes to talk with young parents and groups, do corporate presentations—basically anything anywhere to help educate people and to help them prevent what my family went through,” says Karen. “For 10 years we went through one health crisis after another within our family and it was such a terrible way to live. No parent wants to have that horrible sensation of feeling like their child is helpless. So if we can prevent a lot diseases and illnesses, I say why not.”
Karen Burrows quotes her ultimate vision as seeing Brunswick County completely free of toxins someday. Karen confidently stands by her belief that if we just do things the right way, not only will we have tremendous health benefits from not introducing all these toxic chemicals into our bodies, and into our children’s bodies, but we will eliminate them from the environment, as well.
She wisely concludes: “I think we all go through an experience in our lives at some point and when we come out of it we say, okay, what is our purpose—why are we here? Obviously I had to go through what I went through to become a little bit more enlightened.
“My purpose now is to try and help others as much as I can, and to see Brunswick County toxic free and for all of us to leave a living legacy for generations to come.”
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By Christina Sue Gurtowsky
Published Summer 2008
Karen Burrows of Brunswick County recalls practically planning her own funeral 11 years ago, as she had fallen seriously ill due to autoimmune disease, neurological lyme disease and an aggressive basal cell cancer. Unable to work, let alone get in or out of her car, Karen was left with no choice but to step down from her teaching career of nearly two decades.
In addition to coming to terms with the disheartening thought that her life was entirely out of her hands, Karen was faced with severe health declines within each of her children. Constantly in and out the emergency room for unexplainable illnesses, the Burrows family struggled for any sign of stability as they fought to reclaim what was once upon a time a healthy, happy family.
“My children were so sick and no one could figure out what was going on with us,” says Karen. “I had my kids in and out of the emergency room constantly. It seemed like every week something was happening.”
Nearing complete devastation, Karen decided to explore solutions for wellness outside of the conventional medical system. Shortly thereafter, she was referred to a woman who was well-educated in the daily use of natural supplements as well as general nutrition.
“When she first proposed the use of supplements, I was really hesitant about the whole idea,” Karen explains. “I remember being like, whoa, wait a minute, we have taken supplements before and as a result become seriously ill.”
Karen continues in her explanation: “The woman then explained there was a huge difference in the quality of different supplements, pointing out the difference between whole-food supplements versus synthetic supplements. Suddenly it all started to really make sense to me.”
The woman advocating these tips for healthier living was talking about Shaklee brand whole-food supplements. Desperate and mentally exhausted from searching for answers to account for so much sickness, Karen decided to give the whole-food supplements a shot. She unexpectedly experienced a massive improvement in her health within only a few days of starting the supplements.
“Within two days of starting the supplements, I could literally feel my body start to change. They truly saved my life,” says Karen.
“I put my whole family on them, including my husband, who was then able as a result to get off his blood pressure medication,” adds Karen. “And the kids no longer had to make to make trips the emergency room. Now, if we catch a cold, it’s like wow, what did we do wrong, because we just don’t get sick anymore.”
There was no longer any slaving with daily prescription medications. There wasn’t any need for emergency hospital visits either. Shaklee whole-food supplements, along with better nutrition, led the Burrows family away from the dead-end street of deteriorating health and onto a more vibrant path of optimum wellness.
Things were back to the way they were supposed to be, and the Burrows family was healthy, claiming to have felt the best they had in a long time. But Karen Burrows did not stop there.
“As an educator, I didn’t feel comfortable just going by what the company was telling me and the information I was getting from them,” explains Karen. “I needed to know more, so I actually went back from scratch and got my undergraduate degree and my doctorate degree in Holistic Nutrition.”
Karen and her husband went on to create a unique business for the purpose of wellness, which they coined “Tidal Passions International.” Tidal Passions International introduces ideas for wellness through means of natural resources. They offer nutritional consulting for individuals interested in commitment to wellness and optimal health and they provide corporate presentations on nonspecific and specific health topics.
“I chose the name Tidal Passions because I’m an ocean girl,” says Karen. “The passion that I feel from the ocean, the waves, the consistency and the strength just fit for what I wanted my business to specifically represent—the strength, the longevity and the passion of living.”
Tidal Passions International has two areas, focusing primarily on the aspects of marketing and holistic healing. The marketing division is where the company partners with Shaklee, aiming to educate individuals rather than simply sell their products. The holistic area of Tidal Passions provides healings arts, such as the biofeedback and nutritional consulting.
In accordance with the company, whose main aim is to educate clients, not sell products, Karen states: “I don’t cure. I don’t diagnose. I don’t treat. I don’t do any of those things. I help you and your body start to heal itself. I don’t want people to be my clients forever; ideally I want them to be educated enough so they can say: ‘I can learn this on my own.’
“We are living in a society where we are being convinced we are ill and diseased because of the money to be made, since there is no money to be made in healthy people, at least not from a pharmaceutical point of view. There is a time and a place for pharmaceuticals. In general, physicians are there to help us and heal us, but we need to work in conjunction with each other, and no longer perceive each other as a threat.”
Through children’s programs and various nutritional packages, Tidal Passions aims to present ideas for nutritious meals that are able to rebuild and help prevent disease, injury and illness, as well as aiding in the elimination of habits that may be inhibiting overall health.
In conjunction with the healing arts of Tidal Passions, Karen introduced the EPFX Biofeedback device to aid in the dealing with the stressors in clients’ lives that can affect their health, as well as significantly impair their emotional growth.
“I added the quantum biofeedback because I wanted to get to a deeper level of helping people heal themselves,” says Karen. “And through biofeedback, I can get to a lot of deeper issues than I would through general nutrition.”
The goals of biofeedback are to maintain a stable internal environment by mediating digestion, temperature and blood pressure; mediating emotional expressions, such as palpitations of the heart, clammy hands and blushing; and promoting higher conscious processes that also influence autonomic regulation via neo-cortical, limbic and thalamic projections.
“I try to educate, go into people’s homes to talk with young parents and groups, do corporate presentations—basically anything anywhere to help educate people and to help them prevent what my family went through,” says Karen. “For 10 years we went through one health crisis after another within our family and it was such a terrible way to live. No parent wants to have that horrible sensation of feeling like their child is helpless. So if we can prevent a lot diseases and illnesses, I say why not.”
Karen Burrows quotes her ultimate vision as seeing Brunswick County completely free of toxins someday. Karen confidently stands by her belief that if we just do things the right way, not only will we have tremendous health benefits from not introducing all these toxic chemicals into our bodies, and into our children’s bodies, but we will eliminate them from the environment, as well.
She wisely concludes: “I think we all go through an experience in our lives at some point and when we come out of it we say, okay, what is our purpose—why are we here? Obviously I had to go through what I went through to become a little bit more enlightened.
“My purpose now is to try and help others as much as I can, and to see Brunswick County toxic free and for all of us to leave a living legacy for generations to come.”
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