The first weekend in June Louisville was host to the American Holistic Nurses Association’s 31st Annual Conference. A treat for our fair city, and for the nurses. They loved the trolley hop and many local restaurants serving good local food.
So after they were fed, how ballistic were they? I don’t know about you but most of my experiences with nurses seems to be in a stressed out situation and they have too many things to do. So I can understand when the waitress thought she heard and then announced over the loudspeaker that they were celebrating the “Ballistic Nurse of the Year” when it was really the “Holistic Nurse of the Year”.
As these nurses seem to really have it together, they laughed heartily and agreed, maybe it takes being ballistic sometimes to make the changes they want to see happen.
We are very fortunate to have the largest chapter of Holistic Nurses in Louisville. If someone I know is going to the hospital I now call ahead to ask if any holistic nurses work there. I think they are not very public yet. And as the public, we may have to start asking and demanding for holistically trained nurses and doctors!
I attended the keynote events and shared a booth with a holistic nurse and BodyTalker from Pennsylvania. While exhausted at the end of the AHNA event, I felt so satisfied, complete. The speakers and attendees I met were all amazing. Such a treat for me to be in that energy and have women (well 90+% women) who GET IT, and who offered themselves to me for powerful and moving sessions on my table. One has emailed back to say it is still unfolding…
My advice, if and when you are in need of a nurse, be sure to stay clear of the ballistic ones and ask for a holistic one.
Mollie Yunker
Certified BodyTalk Practitioner
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complementary & alternative health blog writer http://louisville.am/author/mollieyunker/
BodyTalk is Holistic Theory in practice. Looking beyond symptoms. BodyTalk is based on Quantum physics, Jungian psychology, eastern and western medicine. Courses offer CE’s.
