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At Seventy, Forty Years of CFT

Thank you all for the well-wishes on my 70th birthday. I am grateful to have my health and the ability to still practice/teach CFT. Forty years ago, I studied cranial osteopathy with the “old-timers,” doctors in their 70s. Now I have officially become one.

As we approach 2,000 Facebook readers and 400 posts on the GillespieApproach.com homepage “Baby Discoveries” box, I am grateful for your support. Thank you for being the one-percenters—the innovators, the avant-garde, the cutting-edge people who “get it.”

At 70, conventional retirement is not for me; hey, CFT is really starting to rock and roll. My bucket list has just one item: for our team to teach as many hospitals as possible so that CFT will become the global standard of care for all newborns.

We advocate a powerful message. Research has shown that about 90% of all newborns are tight with craniosacral restrictions from birth trauma. Our CFT mission is to compassionately redirect these newborn lives. Our joy comes from laying the groundwork for the unborn billions.

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