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Contents Welcome - Executive Editor and Managing Editor Spotlight - Editorial Advisory Board Feature Article - "Living Medicine" by Dr. Gladys Taylor McGarey, MD, MD(H) Quarterly Snapshot: Holistic Leadership - "An Interview with Dr. Diane Drexler, DNP, MBA, BSN, RN, FACHE" by Sue Roe, DPA, MS, BSN, RN Quarterly Snapshot: Holistic Education - "Movement and Motion Can Enhance Learning" by Christoper Black, MA Ed Quarterly Snapshot: Holistic Health, and Wellness - "Medical Intuition: "The Inside Stories" by Wendie Colter, CMIP NEWS: The Arizona Chapter...a Chapter of the American Holistic Nurses Association Multi-Disciplinary Corner: "Medical Clowns" and the "Homeopathic Nurses Association" Quarterly Resources: "Integrative Modalities and Pain Relief" Upcoming Events Advertisements Executive Editor Dr. Sue Roe It is my pleasure to WELCOME you to our first issue of Wholistic Now! We are so pleased to have you be a part of our community. 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You can reach me at: [email protected] Spotlight: Editorial Advisory Board Our prestigious Editorial Advisory Board reviews each newsletter and provides their expert input. Our Board members will be spotlighted in future issues. Deborah Aurianivar, MSM, BS-Ed, Dipl. OM, LAC, certified acu- detox specialist, certified accupressurist, certified feng shui consultant Jacky Burke Cherney, MS, CSCS, CPT, CISSN Susan B. Collins, APRN, FNP, AHN Mario Fontes LAC, CCH Michelle J. Goldbach, DNP, MHA, BSN, RN, CHPN David P. Hrabe, PhD, RN, NC-BC Madalyn Johnson, herbalist Kristin Juliar, MA, BS Tracy Leonard-Warner, MHI, MT-BC Lisa Schmidt, MS, CN, CYT, e-RYT, CEBS Cynthia L. Viera, PhD, LAC, LASAC ​​​​​​​Mary Grace Warner, MD, MD(H), CCH Sherry Zumbrunnen, MSN, BSN, RN, HB-BC Feature​​​​​​ Article: Living Medicine By Dr. Gladys Taylor McGarey, MD, MD(H) I was born in 1920 and the world then was a very different place. When I was two years old, I knew that I would be a doctor. Later, the field of medicine I was introduced to during WW 2 was a battlefield. Disease, pain, and death were our enemies and our job was to find ways of getting rid of them. I did my best to keep my focus on the work I was doing but felt there was always something missing. I loved working with women who were birthing their babies but we had been taught that doctors "delivered" babies. I have learned that we deliver pizzas or speeches but women birth babies. We help. I have loved working with and helping people who were sick but I have learned that the patient is the one who does the healing. A doctor might get rid of the disease but the patient is still sick or the patient still has the disease but in spite of the disease, or perhaps because of it, they have become whole.They are the living examples of what I call Living Medicine. It has taken me almost 96 years to figure out that in our fight against death we are killing life. We will never get rid of death or birth. Every second of our lives cells are being born and then dying. It is the process that keeps us alive. Our job, no matter which field of healing we are working in, or what our life work is, to learn how to “live” our lives. No one else can live it for us and this moment is the one we have to choose how we are going to live. We can choose to age into health or not! Health is the process of adjusting to Life itself. Years ago I remember working with a patient who had a chronic illness. We had worked for several years trying to get rid of the disease. He would get some relief and I was able to help but we were not getting rid of the disease. One day I said to him, “Perhaps there is a better way of dealing with this problem. You know that when a tree grows and its roots come to a huge bolder they can spend all of their energy trying to get through that rock or break it up. They may find ways to grow around that rock, make it part of its root structure, and, as a result, become a stronger tree. Then when the storms of life come it is not easily blown over. If it is blown over, it becomes a beautiful stump. So I said to him if we look at this disease as that big rock and realize that we have done everything we could to get rid of it; maybe we have another option. We can begin looking for ways in which we can enhance your life, giving you something to live for besides the disease. The disease may still be there but you don't think of yourself as the disease, a damaged person. You find out who you really are.” I have learned that true healing comes when the “physician within” each of us works with the health caregiver on the outside. No one really heals another person. It is team work. A surgeon can do a beautiful job but it is the patient who does the healing. After the surgery it is the health caregiver’s job to support patients as they do their own healing. We encourage and give the power back to patients and help them with their healing. This is Living Medicine. One of the lessons we are taught is to not give people false hope. I learned that I could not live like that because there is not such a thing as “false hope.” There are false expectations and false information but not false hope because hope is a spiritual quality and sometimes it is the only thing we can give one another. Sometimes hope is the very thing that helps the healing process. This is Living Medicine. There are 5 Ls which are the foundation for Living Medicine. 1. Life: Without life nothing else counts. Life attracts life. 2. Love: No real healing happens without love. A disease may be cured but the patient is not healed or, the patient may be made whole but the disease not cured. 3. Laughter: Joy and laughter activate the life force and make life wonderful. 4. Labor: Without labor nothing gets done. We can really want the three above but if we are not willing to work on them they cannot be realized. 5. Listening: We have to be able to listen to ourselves, our bodies, our earth and planet, the true wisdom of others and spirit (in whatever form we understand our spirit). ​​​​​​​We have a choice. Do we continue to live in a world where the focus of healing is on killing, fear, and hate? Or on life, living, love, and light? We are building the future our children will live in. As we continue to grow in the world of science and technology, let us choose to use it to promote life, living in love, hope, and joy . in Living Medicine! Dr. Gladys Taylor McGarey is internationally recognized as the “Mother of Holistic Medicine.” Dr. Gladys, as she is affectionately known, is board certified in Holistic and Integrated Medicine and has held a family practice for more than sixty years. She is the co-founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, as well as the co-founder of the Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine. Her efforts worldwide continue to receive international acclaim. Dr. Gladys is the author of four books, "The Physician within You," "Born to Live," "Living Medicine," and "The World Needs Old Ladies." Her public speaking career bridges four decades during which she has shared the podium with Andrew Weil, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Dr. Gladys’ work lives on through The Foundation for Living Medicine, which helps to expand the knowledge and application of holistic principles through scientific research and education. To learn more about the Foundation and/or to receive information about purchasing Dr. Gladys’ books please go to: http://www.thefoundationforlivingmedicine.org/ Quarterly Snapshot: Holistic Leadership An Interview With: Diane Drexler, DNP, MBA, BSN, RN, FACHE It was my pleasure to interview Dr. Diane Drexler, Chief Nursing Officer for Yavapai Regional Medical Center in Prescott, Arizona. I was delighted that Diane agreed to be interviewed for the inaugural issue of Wholistic Now! I believe she is a model of holistic leadership and a mentor for holistic leaders.