Emma Miller

As a child I had eczema and anxiety. My parents weren't inclined to accept that there was nothing to be done, so they worked from Adelle Davis's Let's Get Well, using food and supplements to support me at home. It was an unconventional upbringing for the time, and it left me with an early sense that what you eat and how you feel are connected, long before I had any language for why.

In my late teens I moved to the UK, and in my early twenties I travelled through India. That trip shifted something. Seeing traditional medicine practised as ordinary, everyday care rather than as an alternative to something else made me curious in a way I hadn't been before.

Over the years that followed I used acupuncture and homoeopathy for my own health, physical and emotional alike. I was my own first case study: on the receiving end, paying close attention to what changed and what didn't. That long stretch of being a patient is what eventually sent me to study complementary therapies properly, and it's still how I listen to the people who come to see me now