Founder’s Message
Mark D. Hinds, Co-Founder and Co-Visioneer
Dear HealthWalk Family and Friends,
How was your summer? With September we welcome the change in seasons. Summer vacations are over, work has resumed its rhythm, school has started again and the days are getting dark earlier. It is a wonderful time to assess and give gratitude for all that we have to be thankful for.
Each season brings new blessings as well as more opportunities for us to learn from. I am reminded of this every day when I meet and/or hear from our clients about their experiences at the clinic and with our supplements and products. I feel so thankful that we are able to positively impact each person’s life and empower them to live more fully and healthily. Thank you so much for all your feedback; we are inspired by you, we learn from your input and suggestions and your progress towards greater wellness give us the motivation to keep on improving on how we can better serve you.
We have been working with many families lately who have members with autism and ADHD. It has been a joyful and humbling experience to witness and celebrate with them the improvements in communication, attention, cognitive ability and greater interpersonal interaction that our services and products have given them.
Autism is increasing rapidly and alarmingly in the US. The incidence of autism has grown from 1 in 10,000 diagnosed cases in 1996 to one out of 154 children in California in 2006. ADHD is currently diagnosed in 4.7 million U.S. children up by 2 million since 2004. In California, autism grew by over 23% per year from 1992 to 2003.
In response to requests from families, care givers and schools for more information and tools to deal with this growing health challenge, HealthWalk will host Autism/ADHD experts, including our own world renowned neurological specialist, Dr. Dennis Maness to speak about the latest solutions to these growing health challenges in our clinic on Saturday, September 27, 2008. http://www.healthwalk.com/Events/tabid/98/Default.aspx
This no fee workshop is ideal for parents, care givers, teachers and anyone who has an association with children and adults with Autism/ADHD.
The Workshop will cover:
- Progressive drug-free therapies
- How to work effectively with the school system and county services
- Improving communication with teachers and counselors
- Strategies that keep the family unit together and thriving
We are grateful that we are able to share our technologies, knowledge and products with a larger audience who can benefit from their use. Please register to come to the workshop if you are interested and/or associated with anyone dealing with this health issue. Based on the positive response to this workshop, we will be presenting more workshops later in the year on other aspects of health and wellness. We look forward to seeing you in our workshops and at our clinic.
Thank you again for your support, we greatly appreciate it when you share your stories of health and wellness improvements with others; you give us valuable word of mouth endorsement which is so important to our ongoing success.
Each day bring us more reasons to realize what we do at HealthWalk is meaningful and needed, may you also experience that for yourself and for what you do.
To your vibrant health,
- Mark D. Hinds, Founder and Co-Visioneer, HealthWalk