After graduating from NPH, I got married and went to the Maldives for my honeymoon. During that trip, while I was feeling stressed about finding my first job, something unexpected happened. On the last day, while sitting on the beach, I received a call from a former teacher who offered me a position. We met for lunch, and I started working there shortly after returning home.

Two instructive years later, I felt ready to move on but also uninspired, so I decided to follow an old dream: moving to the Mediterranean. When the opportunity to buy a restaurant in Bodrum, Turkey, came up, I packed my bags and left. I thought I had left naprapathy behind to try something new. But life had other plans.

Starting the restaurant was full of challenges. During every frustrating hurdle, people suffering from pain and injuries would appear, and I offered my help as a naprapath. One day, I met a woman whose mother was bedridden. I treated her, and after two sessions, she was back on her feet. Through this family, I gained unexpected opportunities, such as treating a Russian oligarch—something I couldn't have imagined in my wildest dreams. One thing led to another, and soon I had an entirely new clientele, ranging from fishermen to billionaires.

Despite the glamour, I sometimes felt the need to change paths, but life constantly brought me back to naprapathy. When I finally decided to return to Sweden after several years abroad, a terrible earthquake struck my hometown in southern Turkey on the very same day I arrived home.

Instead of staying in Sweden, I went back to help in the disaster area. There, I encountered unimaginable suffering—children without limbs, families who had lost everything. Despite feeling inadequate, I chose to stay. I started a fundraiser where I climbed Turkey's highest mountain to help the patients I had met during my time there. Together with everyone who donated money, I was able to help change lives. I helped a boy who had amputated two legs and an arm to walk again, and a woman who had lost five family members and had her leg crushed to get up from her hospital bed.

Every time I have tried to leave naprapathy, life has reminded me why I must continue. It is not just about helping others—it is also a part of who I am.

Naprapathy has not only shaped my professional life but has also given me the opportunity to be where I am needed most.

People need us—perhaps just as much as we need them.

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Best regards,
Deniz, Licensed Naprapath