Jan 27, 2021
Meet Todays Guest: Birgit Lueders
Birgit
Lueders is the mother of two wonderful daughters Emma and Lisa,
living in Philadelphia, PA. She is a certified Master Herbalist,
Yoga Teacher, Iridology Instructor, and Wellness Coach. Birgit
first learned the values of an organic herbal lifestyle in her home
country of Austria. Since 2009 she has operated BirgitCare -- a
business focusing on health, wellness, and natural healing in
Philadelphia, PA. Through BirgitCare, she offers personalized
wellness coaching to support her client's emotional, physical, and
spiritual wellbeing by using modalities like Iridology, Herbalism,
Nutrition, and Colorpuncture. In 2012 Birgit founded the Center for
Iridology, where she is teaching Iridology Courses around the world
and annually in major cities like New York, San Francisco, Chicago,
Boston, and Philadelphia. In 2020, during the pandemic, she adapted
her Iridology Courses for online certifications and was able to
move her wellness coaching program online. Throughout the past 10
years, Birgit has been a known speaker in her field at numerous
national and international EXPO’s, while being consistently
featured on radio and TV. After being a Fellow, a Diplomat, and the
Vice-President of the International Iridology Practitioner
Association (IIPA), in 2020 Birgit became President of IIPA through
2023.
Can You Give Us a Little Backstory on How You Became a
Master Iridologist?
It's a long path. And I
swear, I believe that our destiny is written ahead of us, and
somehow, we come into this life with our soul purpose and soul
path. And we feel like we are writing it all up and then come into
this lifetime, and then we live it. And if we live true to our
soul, then we have every day for fun, or we feel at ease, or
balanced, right. But if we do something that was not our destiny,
or wasn't our, you know, expertise, then work is work. Like then
you feel like you really working all day and one of my friends who
is also a colleague of mine, she said, I made my passion as my
profession. And I never worked a single day. And I thought that was
very interesting when she said that. Because when you're really,
isn't it true when you do what you were supposed to do? I mean,
just you could be different for every single person, right? But if
you do what, like for example, you do right now we're getting all
the women together, you don't work a single day, right? And it's
the same for me. I'm in a holistic field. And I wasn't meant to be
in a holistic field at all, when I started, went for school, and
started a career and college in the finance world because I
actually thought my destiny was making as much money as possible,
as quickly as possible, and then retire early. So, then I can have
fun, right? I worked really hard got into a great, great job. Very
early, early age 25 in a big, pretty much main world, right? I
mean, there wasn't like 25-year olds running around, you know, like
me. But I was honored that I was getting, you know, moves to have
this amazing career. And it was the American Express bank in
Vienna. So, I still remember I had so much fun buying my expensive,
like suits and, purses and march to work, right. But then there was
one thing that was missing, I had no fun at that job. I had zero
fun. I was good at it, but I wasn't loving it. And so, there was
this problem that I was talking about to friends that it didn't
show like mentally, and because then I had fun on the weekend. But
then it actually made itself clear that I wasn't on my right path,
Physically. I became so sick constantly in my digestive system, it
didn't matter what I was eating, I felt sick, nauseous, almost
vomiting every Sunday. And I had this grandmother who was very
connected to nature and herbs. And one day she said to me, maybe
it's not what you're eating, maybe it's what is eating you. And
when she said that I was like, wow, this is true, because I was
compensating not having this passion in this field, but buying
myself expensive stuff and, travel on the weekends and party and
have fun. I mean, I was young, right? But then when it's Sunday,
hit around eight o'clock, I felt nauseous and sick. Because I was
dreading forward to the future of Monday having to start this day,
again, that I wasn't happy about. And like I said, I was seen as a
movie at that time, you know, anyways, it was the movie out
groundhog days. Right? Groundhog Day. And when I was sort of
moving, I'm like, that's me. Like, it's like, every day you wake up
and you go and live for the same day. Same problems, but I knew,
maybe I just have to stick it through for another five, six years.
And then maybe I can work. You know, an American Express Bank as a
branch manager in Singapore, which has been taught to me so far,
like, okay, I just have to put the time down, right, I have to just
invest my life into it. But you know what, I didn't make it beyond
three years, I made it to two and a half years with so many
digestive system issues, with so much misery physically, not even
like emotionally that one day, then I was sitting in the office,
looking at the stock exchange and currency exchange values. And I
saw an ad for flight attendants. And something really strong kind
of pulled me to this ad, it was really tiny, it says, flight
attendant wanted, called this number. And I'm like, I mean, I was
way overpaid, you know, for being a flight attendant. But there was
something that said, go do this, take time off, find yourself. So,
I call them up, went for all the tests that I had to do in Europe
to be a flight attendant and you had to speak several languages
you're hired in a certain way to remember was way more? Yeah, kind
of strict. So, when Aiden told me the next day, when I want to
start with the flight attendant school, I was a little bit worried
for a second with my left brain, and I know, you know, like the
left brain, right. It's the logical mind. Right? And the right
brain was the one, no I want to have fun. So, in this moment, then
I just went for it. I just took the pay cut. But at that moment, I
started to realize that I didn't work a single day, there was after
six months of traveling for the whole world like India, Australia,
and Africa and everywhere. I felt like you know what, maybe someday
I have to start working, working again. Like I didn't even register
that this was work. But so, it was really fun for me as I travel
around, but at that time, I still didn't make any decision,
honestly, because what did I do? I wasn't happy with the education
I had. And I was running away too, right? I mean, a flight
attendant is a great thing. You don't need to take any
responsibilities. You just jump from one plane to the next. You
don't have any attachments. You don't need to career you just
travel. And I realized that I don't know how long I'm going to do
that before I decide what I should do in my life. And
unfortunately, that also came into a complete Hold then, because my
father got sick in a very short time on pancreatic cancer. And I
remember still when I was like 26, and saw the whole, you know, the
cemetery filled with all the people because everybody loved my dad.
And my dad really was a people pleaser, but he never took care of
himself. So, I was standing there, and he passed away when he was
58 from pancreatic cancer and I was 26 and I looked around and I
thought to Myself, I think time is short a life of 100 years. Like
if we get lucky if we can live 100 years, I think it's a short time
it goes away in a blink of an eye. And I remember, all the people
always say that to you, when you're like 18. They're like, enjoy
those times when you're like 18, right? Yeah. And now I'm 48. And I
just sent my daughter off to college and I’m like enjoy the college
time. Same story. So long story short, that's how I got into
natural healing because I felt like, you know, I want to live a
fulfilled life by giving back to others. And I discovered
herbalism, yoga, wellness coaching. And I just stumbled into this
whole field, because I wanted to understand how my dad could just
pass away so quickly without any symptoms. And I want to make sure
that nobody else has to go through the pain that I had, as a young
adult, to lose their dad.
What Is the Big, Huge Research Behind
Iridology?
So, we found out, for example, blue eye
people or people who have like certain orange pigments in the brown
in the outer ring of the eyes are having a hard time digesting the
protein in dairy, so what that means is then, in your case, it
might not be lactose intolerance. It might be Casein intolerance,
which is the protein in the dairy. So, the moment you eat it, not a
body's working so hard, it can’t break down that casting. So, it
trying to store it away, you know, I know mucous membranes well on
because it's an inflammation now. So now we are waking up with
like, you know, having to clear my throat and feel like nasally and
all the ingestion, right? Yeah, so this is exactly that. So free
parts go into iridology, then I'm working on is the physical of
eliminating certain foods that we know from the perspective of the
eyes, then making, you know, emotional treatment for certain
emotions, which can be a meditation about letting go of grief,
right? Or it can be a brainwave meditation, which can let go of
anxiety or tension. There's also Emotional Freedom tapping that I
use, which has certain acupuncture points, that you can tap on you
to let go of that emotion. So, in my case, it was about sweetness
in life, and gladly I ran off from this job that didn't give me
sweetness.
How Would the Audience Go About Getting Connected with
Somebody That Can Help Them?
You can have them come to
my practice, or nowadays since we're in a digital world, where
everybody can actually take amazing pictures of their eyes off
their iPhones. So, if they connect with me, then I send them a
little YouTube link on how to take the iris picture with their
phone. So, then they can send me a left and right picture. I can do
online readings via zoom calls nowadays, which is awesome. Yeah.
So, I have clients actually all over the world like my favorites
are when the time zones are so different. Then I get up very early,
and then I think about my work with my Japanese clients. Okay. So
yeah, I can know it helps anybody to understand who they are with
the blueprint reading of the eyes line also have to know how to
read the eyes. I want to make sure if I leave this earth that
iridology is not dying out. This is where my next passion comes
into place. I feel like I'm carrying on the light of iridology.
It's like, you know, when you see the Olympics, and they're running
with the Olympic flag within the brigade, you're heartfelt. Yeah.
That's all filled with your knowledge, especially those experts.
But people were not treating me that welcoming. I'm like, you know
what, I don't care, I'm going to hold on to this flame and let it
not die off. Because it's not true always that we need to have
something brand new. We do not have to have that we can work with
something that has already existed 1000s of years ago, and we just
don't want to make it die out. So that's why I created my school
called the center for iridology, and I teach chiropractors, I teach
massage therapists, energy healers.
Can You Share One Success Story of One of Your Clients,
That Would Help the Audience Really Understand How Valuable This
Diagnostic Tool Is?
When people come and hit an
iridologist, just the most likely run out of ideas what to do
anymore to have, like, you know, symptoms, that doesn't make any
sense. They go for older medical, you know, diagnosis and
diagnostics and nothing comes back, which is good. But in the end,
that person just feels still dragged, tired, exhausted, and drained
to feel that, Okay, everybody tells him that it's just like in
their head, but it's not. So, then they end up finally, in my
practice. And when I evaluate them, and for example, I see like one
client, for example, came with me and she has, you know, dizzy
spells, she had hair loss, she had nausea and insomnia. When you
put all those like symptoms to get it doesn't make any sense. So of
course, she got the MRI and all that. And she came back one more,
everything was perfect. No iron deficiency for tiredness. But when
I looked into her iris are so certain signs around the corner, like
the thyroid area in my Iris map, which is considered a thyroid
weakness. So, then I told her I'm like, you know, did you get a
thyroid test? And she says, Yeah, and it was perfect. And I'm like,
you know what, I see a genetic really weakness in your thyroid
areas. So, it makes sense for me that you feel tired, exhausted,
drained, you lose your hair, you can’t sleep because it's part of
the endocrine system. And then I asked her, is anybody in your
family? And she says, Yeah, my mother has been on thyroid
medication for a long time. So, what is that what happens? Now
usually, you would have to sit at home and wait for five, six years
until you go every year back to the doctor to prove that you have a
thyroid weakness, right? And it might never happen. Meantime, this
client gained so much weight could lose weight, starved herself,
and tried everything possible in a book to lose weight couldn't and
couldn't get better. I gave it a thyroid based healthy diet. So, I
use food as my medicine. So, in this case, it was a thyroid healthy
based diet that also gave her supplements as herbs that supports a
healthy but an already nonfunctioning thyroid. And here's the third
part of what I did. The thyroid is associated that you have
difficulties with your fifth chakra, which is your fluid area.
Okay? So, fluid has to do everything with like, obviously, you and
I, we don't have any problems to communicate or we wouldn't be on
public podcasts right now. Some people, they have weakness because
there was some press with the speech, or they're not speaking the
truth from what they really want to say because they want to keep
the peace. So, I asked her what was going on with that and she
found out that when she was little, she had very strong parents,
and it was much better to be not heard just to be seen as a child.
Remember that kind of old parenting. So that's what she learned
that anytime she wanted to say Something she rather have suppressed
it. And she had been also in a relationship there was like this,
where she was very overpowered by this partner because she rather
suppress her opinion. And so, I became one person's opinion. So,
she suffered in this relationship as well. So, I had her go back to
a psychologist to work with her speech and find out why she's not
expressing herself. So, once you discover that, then all healing
came into place, she lost weight. She looked better; hair loss was
gone. I mean, his whole thing just disappeared. And since then,
she's a great believer in iridology.
W Hat Is One Book That Is on Your
Bedside Table Right Now?
A New Earth by Eckhart
Tolle
What Is Your Favorite Thing to Do on the
Weekends?
On the weekends? Oh, Walk at the Park.
What Is the Best Gift You've Ever
Received?
The best gift that I've ever received.
That's, oh, I think oh, book. My dad always brought me books when
he went for travels. And what I really loved about that is because
you could read about the stories from where he was going, and you
have something to hold on to that was my best gift. And that's how
I became obsessed with reading. Because I'm an avid reader as
well.
How to Connect with Birgit
www.centerforiridology.com
www.birgitcare.com