On Tuesday, Feb. 24, Julie Meyer, licensed acupuncturist, will be speaking at the Midcoast Lyme Disease Support & Education group at the Wiscasset Community Center from 6 to 8 p.m. She will be sharing her firsthand knowledge and specialized healing technique as it applies to those with chronic illness.

Her career in the '80s and early '90s was advocacy. She was a legal advocate for low income clients who had been denied Social Security Disability benefits. They were all experiencing a combination of chronic problems, and none of them were being healed by the long list of pharmaceuticals that each one had been prescribed.

She loved working with people to understand their conditions so that she could advocate for them before Administrative Law Judges.

But then it occurred to her, wouldn't it be great if people actually got better?

Meyer went on to study traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Japanese meridian-style treatment at the New England School of Acupuncture. Early in her career, she worked in a hospital-based clinic and was the 1998 Tsay Fellowship for post-graduate research. She is board certified by the NCCAOM and by the state of Maine. She has been in private practice since 1998.

Meyer is part of a collective group of individual practitioners who have formed the Heart of Bath Health Center in Bath, each bringing their unique sense of healing beliefs and practices together for the betterment of the Midcoast community.

Please join us for this free event. For more information, please contact Paula Jackson Jones at 207-446-6447 or Angele Rice at 207-841-8757 or email midcoastlymediseasesupedu@gmail.com.