I use a holistic approach, integrating both medical and nursing aspects of care, to facilitate the client’s own self-directed healing process in obtaining optimum wellness (body-mind-spirit). A varied form of communication and modalities are utilized to assist clients toward the wholeness that is inherent within. Holistic nursing care concepts are based on a broad, eclectic academic background, a sensitive balance between art and science, analytical and intuitive skills, and the opportunity to choose from a wide variety of modalities to promote the harmonious balance of human energy systems. In addition, the teaching/learning process enables holistic nurses to assist people to assume personal responsibility for wellness. There is also a belief that disease and distress can be viewed as opportunities for increased awareness of the inter-connectedness of body-mind-spirit.