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Heather Bruce has been an acupuncturist/ naturopath/ herbalist/ lifestyle counsellor since 1979, when she opened her first practice in the inner Brisbane city.
However she is far more than any one of these. Her healing style has developed through experience and searching for results so that a treatment by Heather cannot be compared to any other.
She has an uncanny knack of resolving major, often chronic, problems whilst appearing to attend to apparently unrelated peripheral issues. Everything she says makes perfect sense and she is able to get to the heart of the matter in a way that few can.
Her key interests are in all levels of health and well-being, especially in exploring the nature of disease, and its contribution to our life tapestry.
She is most known for her work in sub-fertility, birthing and general women's health issues.
Heather Bruce has spent nearly thirty five years in Australia and New Zealand working in clinics and teaching students and healers to see life and illness in different ways.
As part of this journey, she has started this site – which began initially as a meditation one.
The focus has shifted, and now encompasses a lot of her life wisdom covering many maternally inspired subjects - branching into the difficult and seemingly hopeless, as she discovered she needed to widen her own horizons in order to flow with what her life dished out.
She has recently renewed content in the 'One Mother's Journey' section to include her own story - how she managed through massive brain injury and then profound autism with her third child over 24 years ago. Read how you may also apply the principles of NOT accepting limitation, of letting go of the personal wishes and going for change in whatever form it happens - to be free of the suffering - in whatever form, the journey to where you need to go becomes the same.
Heather welcomes you to your own journey of discovery. Please feel free to suggest a topic you may wish to learn more on.
Education
Heather's initial acupuncture training was in Brisbane in 1977. The course consisted of approximately 1/3 Western bio-sciences (anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and pathogenesis) with the remainder in acupuncture theory, and practical and clinical application. Supervised practicum was also conducted over a two year period as an essential course component. This was before TCM became the flavour in acupuncture education - when the classics were studied and individualised treatment was the norm rather than protocols.
Heather also successfully passed the examinations in acupuncture set by the International College of Oriental Medicine (UK and The Netherlands) which was at the time affiliated with the local Brisbane institution and was awarded a Bachelor of Acupuncture through that institution in 1979.
She has been diligent at advancing her knowledge further over the last 30 years and has extensove and varied ways to assist those who may have thought that they have tried 'everything' . . .
She has been in acupuncture clinical practice in Australia and New Zealand since graduation to the present day.
Professional
Heather Bruce studied acupuncture from 1977 to 1979 at Brisbane campus of Acupuncture Colleges (Australia). During that period, the institute changed its name to the Brisbane College of Traditional Acupuncture. Heather graduated with a Practitioner Diploma of Acupuncture and a Bachelor of Acupuncture.
Heather was admitted as a Member of the Australian Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Association Ltd (AACMA) on 11 April 1979 and was promoted to Fellow by a unanimous decision of the AACMA Board on 14 October 1996.
Heather was a Board Member of the Australian Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Association Ltd (then named the Australian Acupuncture Association Ltd) from March 1983 to March 1985 and from March 1992 to May 1995. During that time, her main focus was on continuing education and professional development.
Heather is well-known in the profession for her special interest in women’s heath and the treatment of difficult conditions.
Teaching acupuncturists
In the early 1980's, Heather was instrumental in designing and writing the course that went on to become the major undergraduate acupuncture training programme in Brisbne After interrupting her teaching with maternity, she returned to teach the third year students again in the early 1990's, also being asked to assist a competitor college with its course structural problems.
Heather thus was a foundation lecturer at Acupuncture Colleges Australia (Brisbane) which later changed its name to the Australian College of Natural Medicine. She was involved as a key staff member in the acupuncture course development, development of course materials, and the delivery of the program at all levels in the then three year course. Past her under-graduate teaching, since the mid '80's, Heather has also presented to practitising acupuncturists throughout Australasia and also internationally on many 'hopeless' cases - HIV/AIDS and Chinese medicine, Obstetric and Infertility Care, and Difficult Cases.
During her more than three decades of clinical practice Heather has been involved, as organiser and presenter, in a large number of allied conferences and workshops - in areas as diverse as meditation, sacred sexuality, brain injury recovery along with the continuing education seminars and workshops.
Since the late 1990's Heather has been invited to speak at national acupuncture conferences.
Heather is about to present workshops and papers at the 2010 AACMA conference on Healing after Modern Birthing and Supporting Well Pregnancy, the NZRA conference on Treating the Whole Person (rather than just the sore bit) in painful musculo-skeletal problems.
Author
She is also author of a number of publications in healthcare, based on her inner knowledge and experience in acupuncture clinical practice.
She developed a guided meditation CD in 2001, a set of patient manuals and posters after this, and in 2005, Heather took time out to write the very practical What Dads Can Do manual also creating two DVDs - Massage and Birthing - What Dads Can Do - to assist those going through the pregnancy journey - to live well and to enjoy the ride - naturally.
Heather continues to write eBooks and articles and shares her extensive knowledge with those needling mentoring through various acupuncture practitioner sites and forums.
eBooks
Heather continues to write prolifically so please keep an eye on her shop to see what is available.
The latest one is the WomanTides package – a manual explaining how we work – and hormones are NOT the answer, but how the instructions play out.
Both this and the new Men’s Health and Vitality package (COMING VERY SOON) have two massage eBooks at their core – to assist all in ALL manner of aches, pains and partially working systems. It is as easy as helping each other.
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