At NHFC, as long-time advocates for health freedom, we are asking:

“How are things going on the personal freedom front?”

“Is our human freedom to make our own health decisions still intact and being protected?”

Navigating this territory is one of the biggest challenges we have faced. But we all know… humans know…to go steady and be wary in unchartered territories, as the chaos of change can present many decisions. And the paths that lead to the most peace and harmony may not be clear cut at first.

Changes in daily life due to technology are happening so fast that it is hard to keep up with the new tech apps and languages that pop up every week. Corporations are using Certified Change Managers just to help with all the transitions and speed of change. In my own personal world, our family has gone from getting up the courage to go to college more than 50 miles away from home and using quarters in a pay phone to call home once a month, to teens jetting off to foreign countries and Facetiming family back home multiple times a day.

Uncharted territory is an expected element in an evolving world. The history of humans and their ways of life, beliefs, customs, locations, and how to get along (or not get along), has always been intense and rich with lessons. Who among us has NEVER been in uncharted territory?

In the 1990’s, when state governments were attempting to criminalize health care practitioners who were providing wholistic approaches to health instead of using the more conventional drug-based approach, NHFC/NHFA founders were part of the Minnesota Natural Health Coalition and Legal Reform Project that passed the historic Minnesota 146A statute, protecting all complementary and alternative health care practitioners from criminal charges of practicing medicine without a license. And when, in 2000, states began to make laws to take away human rights of citizens during what they would call “declared emergencies,” Minnesota leaders took action and passed a Right to Refuse law to be protective during such declared emergencies.

NHFC was founded in 2000, and in 2003 NHFC called forth health freedom leaders from around the country to come together to discuss health freedom overall, including how to protect our practitioners, products, information sources, and our personal health freedoms. This gathering which ended up being held every year or two eventually led to the founding of the US Health Freedom Congress,  where leading health freedom organizations come together in a circle of trust to pass resolutions that reflected visions for the future. As the tidal wave of changes have continued to happen in these past 25 years, the resolutions coming forth out of the US Health Freedom Congress have become more crucial and more technically based, addressing all that is evolving.