Meet Candace Veach

We recently connected with Candace Veach and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Candace, really happy you were able to join us today and we’re looking forward to sharing your story and insights with our readers. Let’s start with the heart of it all – purpose. How did you find your purpose?

There is only one source, one place within us that informs our purpose, it is what I call the authentic Self. I sensed in my early 20’s that the hardships and abuses I’d faced through childhood (death of my mother at 3, foster care, adults with mental health issues) had been like muddy hand prints on a bubble that held my true self. Who I was born to be before all the muddiness. I reasoned that I was not seeing the world or myself clearly and that I would was going to likely make some bad decisions due to this confusion.
I can not belief the fundamental clarity I actually had at that time as I set the ground rules for myself. Which were as follows.
I sensed this fundamental pure part of me existed in my heart so I must make choices from my heart. I knew fear was a huge in me – so if my heart was unclear between two choices I would choose what frightened me the most. Fully expecting that untrained at life’s complexities, and self-guiding with a muddy windshield I was going to make mistakes I set the rule that as long as I learned something useful from a “bad” experience – it couldn’t be considered all bad.

So I set off to find my authentic Self using my heart as a compass and taking notes on the lessons learned in my journal. I have traveled solo through Europe, Thailand, India, and Bhutan. I was a film producer on Independent films sometime ago. Now I’ve been practicing Chinese medicine for about 20 years.

Only now I understand that when I thought I found my purpose 20 years ago, work that expressed my deep compassion for others. The working of healing others in subtle and amazing ways. Even that was a only an outcome of my purpose. My purpose was to find my Authentic Self and now to show others a path to their own Authenticity . . . .wherever that road takes them.

Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?

As mentioned I’ve been practicing Chinese medicine and acupuncture on the westside for 20 years. I have been writing customize herb formulas from the beginning that have between 14-19 herbs combined to address their specific issues. When a formula is custom made a person sees results almost immediately. Also, my decades of meditation practices and spiritual pursuits allows me to access Qi both my own and others so acupuncture treatments are felt more deeply. However, what is unique to me is my Five Body Integrative method.

This Five Body approach blends of my knowledge of Chinese medicine, spiritual philosophy, and a transformative approach I’ve personally developed. This transformative system provides structure for those in who by choice or chance find it necessary to reinvent themselves. If you need to generate momentum because you are at a stand still, or you wish to capitalize and expand on momentum you already have going I can facilitate that.

People can get a sense of who I am by checking out my fledging podcast, “Being and Becoming Authentic” available on Apple

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

Faith

Hope

The ability to accept the unacceptable.

Alright, so before we go we want to ask you to take a moment to reflect and share what you think you would do if you somehow knew you only had a decade of life left?

My number one challenge is I am a troglodyte when it comes to social media and the inter-webs!!

Living metaphorically in a cave has done wonders for my perspective on life and the special abilities that come from meditation and introspection but your strange bright world of likes, tags, and hashtags has be bam-boozled! I have set for myself the joyful task of reaching past these barriers as I have so many others and will do so one small choice at a time.

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