Meet Kim Collins of Own Your Ohm Health

Today we’d like to introduce you to Kim Collins.

Kim, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I have studied natural health, nutrition, and energy work for over 25 years, including Ayurveda, herbalism, yoga + mysticism. I became a Reiki Master in 1994. So now at age 51, natural health has been a huge part of my entire adult life. I consider myself a lifetime student.

I grew up in the mountains of East Tennessee, rich in flora and fauna. I was a barefoot gypsy girl, nature spirit through and through. I feel that living in this environment, as well as my part Native American roots, gave me the foundation to my belief in the body’s natural ability to maintain itself in good health when given an appropriate healthy environment, provided by our Mother Earth.

But as a business, it all really started for me in 2012, when my life path was fully realized. I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer and I refused the chemotherapy, radiation, and hormone therapy the doctors had suggested. They told me if I didn’t follow their protocols that I would be back in six months even worse. But I felt I could beat it without toxic means and spent the next year and a half studying and immersed in natural holistic protocols, including a raw food diet. I healed my cancer within six months. I am coming upon my 10-year cancer-free anniversary in fact.

Because of my experience of healing cancer holistically, the word got out and I was asked to speak at events, interviews, and such. Others became curious about how I did it and called upon me for help or advice when their current western medicine had seemed to fail them. I felt compelled to help others after my experience because I saw a great need. And people saw my commitment and natural ability to understand the many different holistic protocols that are used in treating all sorts of health deficiencies, not just cancer.

For three years, I consulted people for free (not just for cancer) to help others through their health crisis. It was from this experience that I chose the career path as a holistic health consultant and energy healer to spread the word of natural healing, speaking out against the over-use of traditional toxic pharmaceutical therapies. I became certified as a clinical hypnotherapist and combine this into my energy work to help my clients heal on an even deeper level, as I believe true healing happens when the mind, body, and spirit are balanced.

Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
It’s been a pretty instinctive and fairly smooth ride and I am grateful for that. Going through my own health crisis with cancer almost a decade ago, while some may see that as a “bumpy ride,” was probably one of the best things that ever happened to me. Not only did it allow me to “practice what I preach” or “walk the walk,” so to speak, but it guided me to what I always knew to be my calling in the holistic healing world.

I was a musician my whole life (and still am – The Smoking Flowers is my band with my husband), so that was how I made my living before my wellness practice. For an artist or free thinker, it’s never easy. But when you find your purpose in life those struggles are worth every moment. It becomes a lifestyle, not a forced effort. Not working for the “man” has always been my goal, and I feel fortunate to have accomplished this.

The biggest obstacle for me recently was relocating my office last year. I had to move out of my Inglewood office and decided to try it in my home until I found my new perfect office space. That very same day I moved into my home, the tornado of 2020 hit. And then the covid shut-downs a week later. So it was a forced move at that point. I built an office and wellness center here instead.

It’s called the “Third Eye Lodge” and people can also come to stay here in their own private beautiful space and do healing work/journeying with me. Be truly immersed as a retreat get-away. This has been another dream of mine to be able to offer. So again, that struggle last year turned into something beautiful, eventually. I love working from the sacred space I call home in East Nashville.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on? What sets you apart from others?
I am a certified Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master, Herbalist, Holistic Health Coach, High Priestess Ceremony Facilitator, and Shamanic Journey Facilitator. I also started a small batch of herbal Apothecary six years ago that focuses on ancient herbalism and techniques, fusing reiki and ceremony into every batch. Yes, I am a green witch! A hedge witch. But mainly I see myself as that young nature girl in my kitchen creating with what mother earth so eloquently provides. I make my products with pure intention and even have ceremonial products such as spell candles and spell bottles to assist in the magical world we can’t always “see.”

I am able to customize tincture and tea formulas for my clients. I even have a new line of Ayurveda products that I am about to launch that I am super excited about! Being a small batch, one-woman apothecary allows me to change things up seasonally and make limited edition products on a whim.

I guess I am best known for my work with Hypnosis, energy work, holistic health, and as a musician. Although perhaps what I am most proud of is my apothecary line. I feel my true essence when I am working with plant medicine. It’s like it comes from somewhere deep in my DNA and I feel it flow out of me. Allowing that flow to happen is very fulfilling to me. It’s the creative work I love. Oh and my music I cannot forget maybe some of my proudest work too. It will always be with me, I don’t even see that as work. I have in the near future plans to record a mantra/spiritual/ambient album that will tie into my wellness world.

I am also very proud of the non-profit I created many moons ago called “The Treasure Chest.” Its purpose is to be both an informational and financial resource to anyone diagnosed with cancer seeking to treat it holistically or with alternative means. Grants are given to those who qualify and go towards their choice of non-toxic healing protocol that insurance companies do not provide coverage.

What sets me apart? I don’t think I am special, so that is hard to pin down. But what I do believe sets me apart from a lot of what is out there is that I have been doing this work for over 25 years so I guess I would say experience sets me apart. Before the internet. Before the witch trend. Before the health and wellness guru trend. Not that those trends are bad! They are good trends I am so happy to see come to life! And not that you can’t find a young new practitioner that is amazing… I just see a lot of inauthenticity in some of the stuff out there on social media.

It’s important to know who your herbalist/health facilitator truly IS. I don’t view myself as a “healer,” as that is what some would call me… but rather a conduit. A midwife to my client’s own power to heal themselves. That’s why I call my business “Own Your Ohm Health”. We are each powerful and I am here to guide you to find that healing power and intuition within.

Where we are in life is often partly because of others. Who/what else deserves credit for how your story turned out?
My husband has always been a big cheerleader for me. He was my right-hand man during cancer and helped to give me the confidence to step up into my power earlier on and turn my passion and knowledge into a business. He’s my “behind the scenes’ manager at times, which I need as a creative with my mind racing all over the place with ideas.

Also, my dear friend Jennifer Harvard of Gaia Sisterhood is a big supporter/advocate. We are sisters from another time and work together closely in this lifetime teaming up for healing circles, retreats, and other events. She supported my small business from the very beginning and I am so grateful to have her in my world.

And lastly and maybe most importantly, my parents are my biggest supporters. In raising me, they allowed me to be my witchy self, the nature girl, not making me feel I have to live in a “box” that I could be myself even if they didn’t understand it. It’s all about how we raise our children to allow their inner being to truly thrive. I am lucky to have had that in my parents.

Contact Info:

• Email: [email protected]
• Website: www.ownyourohmhealth.com
• Instagram: @ownyourohmhealth
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Tracey Allison, Alan Messer and Amy Wilde