I am very excited to partner with Rachel Hill in offering the first two classes of Energy Healing for CEU's for nurses, massage therapists, counselors, and others who are required to have a number of CEU hours per year. The class is called Introduction to Energy Healing at will meet at Gardens of Delight on August 7th at 6:30 p.m.

I am a Proud Nurse and a Proud Nurse Practitioner — with the full clinical training, the prescriptive authority, the diagnostic lens, and the years of advanced practice that come with that title — who made a deliberate, informed, deeply considered choice to go deeper than the biomedical model alone could take me. With the type of education we provide our patients, as nurses, the coaching journey just made sense to me. That choice — made not out of dissatisfaction with clinical medicine but out of absolute conviction that human beings deserve more than it alone can offer — is what Nursing from the Inside Out is built on. And the coaching journey that shaped that choice deserves to be named. 💙 ✦ A Note About What I Am About to Share ✦ I have attended many nurse coaching programs and many non-nursing coaching programs throughout my career. More than I could list in a single post. Each one added a layer. Each one expanded the framework. But some teachers leave a mark that the others do not. Some programs land in a place that changes not just what you know but who you are. These are the ones that stand out most. The ones that became foundational — to my practice, to my credentialing, to the book, and to everything I am still building. 💙 ✦ Ryma Belkus ✦ One of my earliest and most influential coaching teachers. She helped me begin to understand — as a nurse practitioner already practicing from a clinical advanced practice foundation — that coaching and nursing were not separate disciplines but the same act of healing approached from a different angle. She planted seeds that are still growing. 🌿 ✦ Circle of Life Coaching — Rebecca McLean & Dr. Roger Jahnke ✦ Dr. Roger Jahnke, OMD, needs no introduction in the integrative health world — but he deserves one here, because what he built is extraordinary. A Doctor of Classical Chinese Medicine. Author of the bestselling books The Healer Within and The Healing Promise of Qi — both classics in energy medicine and integrative health. Co-founder of the National Qigong Association. Director of the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi in Santa Barbara, California. A teacher who has spent over 40 years bringing the healing wisdom of qigong, tai chi, and Classical Chinese Medicine to thousands of practitioners — nurses, physicians, therapists, social workers, military personnel — worldwide. (Fun fact: In a past life, I completed a semester of acupuncture school!)

🌀 Big News from the Nurses Sanctuary — And the Most Personal Thing I Have Ever Shared About Why This Work Matters. ✦ I want to tell you something before I make this announcement. Not about the program. Not about the partnership. Not about the contact hours or the curriculum or the extraordinary woman I am building this with. I want to tell you why I needed this work myself. 💙 Because I am not offering Advanced Quantum Healing to this community from a distance. I am not sharing it as something I observed from the outside or studied academically. I am sharing it as something I brought to the most tender, most private, most unresolved places in my own life — and watched it do what nothing else had been able to do. Over the past six to seven years, Advanced Quantum Healing has been the modality I have turned to for the things that other healing could not fully reach. ✦ Grief. 💙 The kind of grief that does not resolve with time or with talk. The kind that lives in the body. The kind that belongs to a loss so profound that the ordinary instruments of healing feel too small for the size of the wound. I brought my grief to this work. And Advanced Quantum Healing met it at its root — not managing the grief from the outside but reaching into the quantum field of the experience itself and finding what was held there. What needed to be released. What needed to be transformed. What the grief was carrying that could finally, after being held and honored, be set down. ✦ Poverty Consciousness. 💙 The programming that comes from childhood. The beliefs about money, about worth, about what is available to people like us — installed before we had the capacity to question them, running silently beneath every financial decision, every professional choice, every moment of reaching for something and pulling back at the last moment. Poverty consciousness is not just about money. It is about the fundamental belief in scarcity — that there is not enough, that I am not enough, that the good things belong to other people. That belief was in me. It came from childhood. And no amount of conscious effort, affirmation, or cognitive reframing had been able to dissolve it the way Advanced Quantum Healing did — because it went to the source. To the quantum field encoding of the original experience. And it changed it there.

The next chapter has arrived. And I have been waiting a long time for this one. 💙 Every modality in this series opened a door. Jin Shin Jyutsu was the first door. Reiki walked me deeper. Healing Touch gave me the nursing framework. Yoga gave me the body. Hypnotherapy gave me the subconscious. Chakra balancing gave me the map. Core Star Energy Healing is the room at the end of the hall that all of those doors were always pointing toward. And the person who holds the key to that room is one of my dearest friends. ✦ Meet Lynn Johnson-Soulier ✦ Lynn Johnson-Soulier is a healer, teacher, yoga instructor, herbalist, aromatherapist, doula, organic gardener, and the Director of The Core Star School of Energy Healing — nestled in the rolling hills near the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri, in a historic home surrounded by community gardens and a nature sanctuary she calls Gardens of Delight. 🌿 The name says everything about who Lynn is. She is a graduate of the Core Star School herself — and then stayed for four more years as an assistant instructor, pouring herself into the transmission of this work with the devotion of someone who understood from the inside exactly what it does to a person. She has provided over 10,000 individual healing sessions. She has studied at the Austral-Asian School of Herbal Studies in Oregon, holds a Diploma in Aromatherapy from the Institute of Integrative Aromatherapy, and has trained in both Anusara and Kundalini Yoga. She is, in the truest sense, a whole healer. A nurse of the soul. And she is now the director of a school that is changing the lives of everyone who walks through its doors. I am honored beyond words to call her my friend. And I am beyond excited to tell you what she teaches. 💙 ✦ What is Core Star Energy Healing? ✦ Core Star Energy Healing is a comprehensive, multi-level school of energy healing that works with the full spectrum of the human energy field — physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual — through advanced hands-on healing techniques, spiritual development practices, and the deep exploration of energy anatomy.

We have arrived at the final post in this series. And it could not have ended anywhere else. 💙 Because chakra balancing is not just another modality in the toolkit. It is the map that made sense of all the other modalities. The connective tissue that wove Jin Shin Jyutsu, Reiki, Healing Touch, yoga, hypnotherapy, and aromatherapy into a single, coherent, breathtakingly elegant understanding of the human being. When I found the chakra system — through all of the above, because it was there inside every modality I had already been practicing — something clicked into place that I had been reaching for without knowing I was reaching for it. This is what the whole thing is. This is the map. ✦ How it found me ✦ I did not find chakra balancing. It found me — gradually, persistently, through every door I had already walked through. It was there in Kundalini Yoga — the entire technology of Kundalini is organized around moving energy through the seven chakras. It was there in Reiki — the assessment and balancing of the chakra system is woven into Reiki practice at every level. It was there in Healing Touch — Janet Mentgen's chakra connection technique is one of the foundational practices of her entire body of work. It was there in Jin Shin Jyutsu — the Safety Energy Locks map onto and interact with the chakra system in ways that took years to fully appreciate. Every modality was already speaking the same language. The chakra system gave me the grammar. I eventually studied formally through Reiki Blessings Academy — a school I found in the mysterious way that the right teachers always seem to appear, through a path I cannot now fully reconstruct. What I know is that I arrived there. And what I learned there completed something that had been building for decades. ✦ What are the chakras? ✦ The word chakra comes from the Sanskrit for wheel or circle — and that is exactly what they are: spinning vortices of energy located along the central axis of the body, from the base of the spine to the crown of the head.