SwitchPoint: A Patient ' s Perspective

May 10, 2017" A conference like SwitchPoint could lead to a newfound global respect for my minority. "As a person who has been diagnosed with one of those “forever” conditions (cerebral palsy) since birth, I’ve spent a lot of time in places of healing.Wonderful people with expensive tools, technical terms, and fancy sheets of paper with words I hardly understand spend an awful lot of time frantically running around. With coats of white and scrubs of red and blue, they seem to blend together in my mind like a confused flag waving in the wind.As this past April came to a close, I was invited to an event in a little corner of North Carolina called Saxapahaw. It was there that I witnessed over 300 people gathered to change the world in a space of light they calledSwitchPoint.I could tell you about the specific ideas we heard at SwitchPoint, the ones that would restore your faith in a unified world. I could walk you through the laundry list of geniuses there, but I find I would trip on their humility and courage. I could open up about the friendships there, held close to the heart despite miles of distance, but none of that would be enough. This event deserves something more.The global health community has a new sense of unity.For 31 years, I had yet to find a place of healing that ’s talked back to me in a language of both transformation and understanding. This new environment was the genuine exception.This was more than a gathering of heart-centered human beings. This wa...
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