Pati Ruiz discusses how seeking a solution to her son's health problems influenced her decision to move to the Sierra Gorda:

One of my children had asthma. In the city, I was a hypochondriac. Every week, we went to the doctor, and (got) medicines, and I was very, very obsessive with that. And I knew that my obsession was making him sick too.

It was also a very important part of our decision because I refused to cure him or to control him by the normal ways, no? I had to look for different ways. And I left all his medicines in Querétaro.

Then, when we moved to nature, from the bottom of my heart I decided: I'm not going to take him (to the doctor) anymore. I was really afraid. But since I moved to the Sierra, I just stopped worrying about him, and my son Mario never got sick again. Never! I stopped taking care of him.

When they were little ones, and I had to go to Querétaro City, and they refused to go, I said "God, I don't want to leave these two young boys by themselves in the mountains!"

But every time I answered myself, "They are in better hands now than in yours, no?" Because I had the total faith that Mother Nature is taking care of us, as she takes care of everything, She takes care of the deer, of the birds. And they have been in the best hands then. Since then, I changed my mind – something inside me really changed, and I didn't worry about it – or many other things that used to worry me.

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