Submitted by deonne wright RN OHNA Communication | Conference Coordinator Founding Board Member I was raised on a farm more than half a century ago by staunch, fundamentalist Christian parents. I was also the eldest of their twelve children. As I look back I see how those three elements formed…
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Submitted by Marina Ormes RN, HN-BC (ret) Because I am an astrologer, it’s hard for me to think about self-care and not think of the Moon. In astrology, the Moon is the symbol that represents needs. The astrological Moon encompasses the intangible: our emotional needs and our needs for caring and…
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Submitted by Tammera J. Karr, Ph.D., BCHN A trend has taken over our modern lives, one very different from our parents’ and grandparents’ time – in particular, the advent in the last ten years of rapid access to news and social media. Twenty-four seven exposure to news – and just plain…
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Submitted by Cordy Anderson, RN, BSN, QTTT, CCMHP OHNA Treasurer One thing I want to share right off is that doing things to take care of myself is much easier now that I am retired. Before retirement, I awoke and did a short meditation, ate a healthy organic breakfast, made…
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Submitted by Christina Dynamite BSN, RN-BC, NC-BC OHNA Conference Coordinator-in-Training As a new board member I was tasked with writing a sort of “what is holistic nursing to me” blog post and I’ve found myself unable to define that quite yet, so let me tell you about my experiences at my…
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Submitted by Breeze Powell Spivey, RN I grew up in a family where all things alternative and natural were our normal. We always had a naturopath as our family practitioner, and we used plants and folk remedies as our first line of medicine. My mother really taught us to listen to…
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Submitted by Lee Anne Hellesto, Nurse Practitioner I really started down my path in my fifties (and no, you don’t have to wait that long!!). I had just finished NP school and had a good job in Internal Medicine treating the elderly population. I felt strongly I was in the…
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Submitted by Anita Stewart, RN My back was broken, my legs numb. Lying in the hospital bed I pondered the recent series of troubling events. One morning while putting on my riding boots I had a premonition; a vivid movie in my mind showed me being thrown off my horse…
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Submitted by Alie Oyster, BSN, RN OHNA Secretary Nine years ago, I completed a yoga teacher-training program. Tuning into my body through the physical asana and mind via my readings of the yoga sutras, I discovered a lot about myself. I learned to slow down and work from my inner…
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How the holistic practice of Therapeutic Touch (TT) has impacted my life. Well, believe it or not, my story must start a long time ago, when I was just a child; well ok, let’s say a teenager. For reasons I won’t go into, I felt there was some hypocrisy in my…