About Jayney
Jayney Goddard is President of The Complementary Medical Association (The CMA) which is the world’s largest professional membership body for complementary medicine (CM), and she is widely regarded as one of the leading experts on complementary medicine and natural healthcare. She has a Master of Science post-graduate degree from the University of Central Lancashire and is beginning her doctorate in January.
Memberships:
President and Fellow; The Complementary Medical Association
Founder and Co-Chair; British Society for Lifestyle Medicine
Fellow; Royal Society of Medicine
Fellow; Royal Society for Public Health
Advisory Board Member; Health Food Manufacturers Association
Advisory Board Member; “camexpo”
Advisory Board Member; Faculty Member and Founding Contributor; Integrative Healthcare Symposium – USA
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Who is Jayney Goddard?
Initially a ballerina, Jayney “accidentally” joined the circus as an aerial artiste, which required travel to some of the most far-flung and primitive places in the world. During this time, when there was no access to conventional medicines, she witnessed first-hand the phenomenal power of natural, folk medicines and it was this that inspired her to train in a range of complementary medical disciplines.
Jayney has a vast depth of knowledge across the entire field of complementary medicine and can always be relied upon to provide substantiated research data during any interview, lecture or written work.
Jayney is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health. She was recently awarded the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Expo Award for Outstanding Contribution to Complementary Medicine – which was judged by a panel of respected complementary medical professionals and a group of high profile captains of industry coming from backgrounds as diverse as banking, insurance and entertainment.
She has a busy international practice where she works uses a range of complementary medical approaches with her patients, including homeopathy, mind/body medicine, psychotherapy and hypno-analysis. Most recently, Jayney trained in Mind/Body Medicine at Harvard Medical School, under Dr Herbert Benson, the ‘father of mind/body medicine’.
Jayney is a high-profile contributor to print and broadcast media. She is the complementary medical and natural health expert for various newspapers and magazines and is a regular guest on television and radio when expert opinion is required on any aspect of complementary medicine and natural health care. Adept at phone-in “open clinic” type broadcasts, Jayney is always a popular guest. She is the Discovery Channel’s complementary medicine expert and provided all natural health content for the Granada/Boots PLC joint venture “The Wellbeing Channel”.
Jayney is the natural anti-ageing columnist for Natural Health magazine where they call her “The UK’s leading Natural Youth guru”, she is also the business development expert and columnist for Holistic Therapist magazine.
Jayney testified for the USAs “Whitehouse Commission on Alternative and Complementary Medicine” in order to help the USA standardise complementary and alternative medicine and all her recommendations were accepted unanimously. In the UK, Jayney is The CMA representative for the Parliamentary Group for Complementary and Integrated Medicine and she is active globally, assisting governments worldwide to rationalise their approach to ethical, responsible complementary medicine. In the UK, Jayney sat on the National Occupational Standards for Complementary Medicine Committees, which were set up to standardise practice across the UK.
Over the years, Jayney has taught at various medical colleges, and to faculty and students at Cambridge University in the UK and the University of Miami School of Medicine in the USA. Jayney has taught, as Visiting Professor, on the Masters course at The Graduate Institute in Connecticut, USA, where faculty colleagues include Dr Bernie Siegel, Professor Rupert Sheldrake and Dr Steve Horowitz.
Why Jayney is so passionate about natural approaches to wellness and natural antiaging:
Over the last 30 years, Jayney has dedicated her life to working with people suffering from chronic lifestyle-related conditions, as she herself experienced a life-threatening illness that left her wheelchair-bound for ten years. At her lowest point, she was in hospice care, weighing only 5.5 stone (35kg; 77lbs), and not expected to survive. As a result, she aged dramatically from a “biological” perspective, measuring in at 55 when she was, in reality, only 36. However, Jayney knew in her heart that she had the ability to beat the illness via natural methods, and she did! After coming up with all the recommendations that she writes about in her latest book; “Rewind Your Body Clock – The Complete Natural Guide to a Happier, Healthier, Younger You”, Jayney managed not only to get healthy – but also to rewind her own body clock in the process! Now 55, Jayney’s biological clock shows that her body, mind and physical capabilities are a mere 27!
Due to her work with the Complementary Medical Association, Jayney has an unsurpassed knowledge of all types of complementary medicine and is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts. In addition, Jayney has a vast knowledge of the research base supporting complementary medicine and natural healthcare and has written and edited three encyclopaedias on the subject including Complementary Health: The Scientific Verdict on What Really Works for Collins.
Jayney Goddard MSc FCMA FRSM
President, The Complementary Medical Association