I can’t pinpoint when and where my desire to develop an integrative healthy lifestyle came to be. I may have been heavily influenced by my love of nature and the natural living counterculture of the 1960’s. I do know that by the age of 17 I recognized that I needed to work hard for the rest of my life. In my twenties, I realized that I did not enjoy work when I didn’t feel well. I made a promise to myself to “do everything in my power to maintain my health” so that I could comfortably work. I’ve followed that doctrine throughout my adult life. And so began my lifelong journey of consistently implementing a variety of self-maintenance practices including dry brushing.