Monika Ponton-Arrington joins Wellness Center staff

Monika Ponton-Arrington, a Native American healer, has joined the staff at the Natural Wellness Center of Ellijay.

Monika is an enrolled member of the Taino Nation and has lived in the north Georgia mountains since 1973. The first-born of a family of long ceremonial standing, she knew from an early age that her lifepath would be one of health and counseling. The teaching and guidance of the family's elder women, as well as being a caregiver to younger siblings provided her with a solid foundation for this path.

Married to a Cherokee, Monika studied the "mountain medicine" as well as the traditional ways of her husband's people for many years before returning to the Caribbean isles to study more closely the ways of her own people, under the guidance of the Taino Abuellas, or "grandmothers."

Armed with the understanding that all wellness is holistic in nature, Monika has sought formal knowledge as well. A graduate of the Native Wellness Institute, she is blessed with "book learning" as well as the intuition of a native healer.

Monika has worked and continues to work with physicians, therapists and counselors since the late 1990's.

She is the mother of four grown children, and lives near Fort Mountain and the Cohutta Wilderness near Ellijay, Georgia.

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