02/14/2025
We love hearing from the amazing women who have participated in this mission of ours! Elena, in her own words…
“… 20+ years into my professional career, I was contemplating a major shift. For most of my life up until then, I had walked two parallel paths. One – through formal education and a conventional healthcare career rooted in modern scientific, medical, and business principles, leading multidisciplinary collaborations to innovate, advance treatment options and improve care delivery. The other – through personal interests in multicultural healing and wisdom practices, studying with pioneers like Herbert Benson MD in Boston and volunteering complementary medicine service to patients and staff at local hospitals. Both paths were rewarding, yet neither felt complete on its own.
In 2018, I launched Quilting Health [and] begin merging these paths, with a mission of connecting insights and tools from modern knowledge and traditional wisdom to foster systemic healthcare innovation and human potential activation for creativity, performance, and wellbeing. [For the] first 5 years, Quilting Health side venture, a hobby, engaging with communities of like-minded individuals, promoting education about multicultural traditional healing practices, and offering consulting services to help integrate such practices into mainstream healthcare and beyond…
As I considered possibilities, participation in Robin and Manda’s initiative to celebrate women’s stories through photography and community further supported my self-reflection, helping me better see myself and the story I am writing. Finally, in early 2024, I took a leap of faith to fully focus on Quilting Health. Since then, our clients and partner connections have expanded locally and globally, as we continue to evolve and grow to enable collaborative healthcare innovation and human potential activation by leveraging modern knowledge systems and traditional wisdom.
Today, I feel inspired and filled with joy to consider ‘what (else) is possible?’”
What an honor to have been even a small part of her journey!
Check out Quilting Health at www.quiltinghealth.org
If you too are ready for a shift we hope you’ll start a conversation with Robin. Just click that link the first comment.