As an RN, Barbara attended the University of North Carolina and worked as Nurse Manager of the Duke Medical Center Cardiac Care Unit. She graduated with High Honors from Clayton College of Natural Health with a graduate degree in Holistic Wellness and currently is founding director of Haelen Health, an Integrative Healthcare collaborative in Roanoke, Virginia. Somehow along the way, Barbara raised three children and ran an organic family farm outside of Boston, Massachusetts for over 20 years.

Barbara has always felt there is more to being human than maintaining parts of a machine and delved into searching for ways to pull things together into a meaningful gestalt.  How do we connect from the basic to the divine - our bodies, our psyche, our homes, our gardens, our cities, our spirit? In the course of this search, she has explored many paths, spiritual and alternative philosophies, and found HBB to be the most compelling and enriching. She achieved certification in 2012.

She is currently in private practice and serves as adjuct faculty at ECPI University, Roanoke VA. She was named Teacher of the Year 2014 by the Virignia Association of Career Colleges.

I have worked in a wide variety of nursing fields for over 40 years. Bio-field therapies have been an important part of my nursing practice while in the hospital setting, and now in my private practice and in my volunteer work at Hope Lodge (a respite house for cancer patients and thier caregivers). I am trained in Therapeutic Touch,Healing Touch, Energy Medicine ,Reiki ,Grief Work and Externalization. I have recieved several letters of recommendation for my work in Healing Touch from MDs who were also my colleagues. I look forward to assisting you with your life challenges and on your path of healing .

I became a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner in June 2013, Re-Certified in 2018.  In 2005 I began my course work in the field of energy medicine, taking 3 Levels of Reiki and the Reiki Master Class, attaining the Reiki Master Certificate in April 2009.  My Level 1 Healing Touch class was in February 2010.  My interests led me to taking Energy Medicine 1; a workshop in External Qi Healing; and six workshops in Cell Level Healing, 2015-2019.  I have also studied Holographic Memory Resolution; Bengston Energy Healing Method; and received a Certificate in Hypnosis for Health Care Professionals in 2021. I am again offering In-Person Treatments and continue to offer Distance Treatments.

My traditional eduational degrees are in art:  a BA in art, American University, Washington, D.C.;  Non-degree student for 2 years at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York; an MFA in Ceramic Art, University of Miami, Miami, Florida; and a BLS with extensive course work in Papermaking, Bookmaking and Printmaking at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

RN with over 45 years of diverse clinical experience. Certified in healing touch since 2008 and is a Board Certified Integrative  Nurse Coach.  Works as a nurse coach and healing touch practitioner at Pacific Pearl La Jolla and  has a private practice of coaching, healing touch and DDLH. Certified in Heart Math and in Crystal Healing.

Currently serves as Secretary for Miraglo Foundation and is past Vice Chair of WomenHeart. Hosts a monthly WomenHeart Support Group at Pacific Pearl La Jolla and is a spokesperson and educator for WomenHeart. Previously she was the Clinical Manager at Scripps Center of Integrative Medicine from 2004-2017.

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Certified Six Sensory Life Coach, Empathic Spiritual Medium, Certified Healing Touch Practitioner, Personal Truth Counselor, Body-Talk Access Technician, researcher, writer, amateur musician and most significantly a modern day "Healing Shaman."

Using a holistic approach in all the Services I offer; I address all aspects of our human experience and Universal Lives, the physical, emotional, mental, soul purpose and Spiritual Paths; facilitating healing not only for individuals but most importantly for our “Mother” Earth and all her inhabitants.

I live and share my gifts and talents primarily in rural SW Virginia where my Healing Studio is located, however I travel extensively and have worked with individuals from around the world. I have provided a home for adults with disabilities, and served as a Licensed Direct Care Provider through an innovative organization that provides holistic home-based solutions for people with severe physical and intellectual disabilities since 1997. I have also cared for a wide variety of injured and abandoned species of wild and domesticated animals for over 40 years and have provided Sanctuary for them on my small farm “Blue Gate Sanctuary” since 1989.

I have been on an active ever expanding Spiritual Journey, seeking and walking the Path of my own Divine Truths since early childhood. My Empathic Mediumship abilities were accelerated in 1987 through receiving recurring distressed visits from my “deceased” father, whom I soon came to understand was trapped in an “astral web”, unaware of his own passing. In an attempt to help my father move out of his trapped state of consciousness, I was lead to one of my greatest teachers and mentors; who assisted me with understanding and learning how to successfully free my father, enabling his transition to his next destination of his own Divine Universal Journey.

What I have come to understand by my own Journey and expressions through my work, is that it is essential for those who wish to engage in their own Higher Spiritual Awareness to re-cognize, re-member and re-create their individual Truths, and that this will ultimately lead them to the Universal Truths of Light, Love, Wisdom and Power, and thus re-connection within the
Heart of The Great Spirit of All Life.

The intent of my website is to be a place where deeper information and resources can be found. The members section of the website will be a place where I will publish information about the Shamanic aspects of my “Light-Work” for those who wish to go deeper into rediscovering our indigenous gifts and abilities.

I have trained and received mentoring from many wonderfully accomplished people, to name a few, Tracy Reid (Hay House CEO), Cheryl Richardson (Hay House author), Sonia Choquette (Hay House author), Robert Brown (Medium, author), Echo Bodine (Medium, author), Deborah Larrimore (Healing Touch Coordination) and Charles J. Weiss (Metaphysician, author).

My thanks and gratitude go out to my close colleagues and companions and to all those who have walked the Paths of their own Truths before me, acting as Loving Guideposts for me along The Way so that I may too step out in Faith, Courage and Truth.

And of course lest I forget, I give Honor, Blessings and Eternal Thanks to all the Great Spiritual Beings, Elementals and Masters of Love who have blessed, supported and guided me each step of the way on this amazing Journey called Life!

In Loving Service

I AM

Catherine A. Morningstar

My name is Michelle Russell, a private Holistic Health and Healing Touch Practitioner located in Duluth, MN.

My personal journey through a series of health challenges with no answers from conventional medicine led me to explore the world of integrative and alternative health care options. The answers and healing that I discovered as a result of my exploration, research, and most importantly application made a profound change in my health and well-being.

My personal life-changing experience inspired me to begin a career and a life dedicated to helping others live more healthfully.

I received my training and certification as a Holistic Health Practitioner from the Global College of Natural Medicine and the American Association of Drugless Practitioners. In addition, I have completed the Healing Touch certification program through Healing Beyond Borders. This program is endorsed by the American Holistic Nurses’ Association. My EFT practitioner clinical certification is through EFT Universe. I am committed to my professional development with ongoing education and certification training.

I look forward to serving those on a quest for wellness by supporting their health care goals with holistic and integrative therapies.

Valorie Knowlton RN, BA, CHTP/I received her nursing degree from Atlantic Union College in Massachusetts, and has a BA in Human Development from Eckerd College in Sarasota, Florida. With over 40 years nursing experience her professional career has incorporated Cardiac Intensive Care, including Open Heart and Cardiovascular Lab, Home Health, and Hospice. Since 2009 she’s worked at Sarasota Interventional Radiology and is dedicated to holistic/integrative ways of practicing and is recognized for her compassionate heart and Healing Touch practice. Valorie has a special affection for the elderly, helping patients cope with cancer, pain, trauma, and the importance self-care.

In the early 1990’s as her life and career developed she began to search for deeper meaning and purpose in life because she felt like “something was missing.” After experiencing Reiki I/II and other integrative approaches to health she was introduced to Healing Touch in 2002. In her first class she felt like she had finally “come home” and knew one day she would teach this work. In 2007 she received her Certification as a Healing Touch Practitioner, and had a private practice in the Village of the Arts in Bradenton, Florida where she and her husband owned The Village Bookshop and The Healing Cottage, 2005-2010. In 2012 she received her Certification as a Healing Touch Instructor for Course 1. She currently teaches classes in Sarasota, Fort Lauderdale, and James Haley VA hospital in Tampa, and has a Healing Touch practice in her home.

Valorie is passionate about HT and teaches with wisdom, compassion and an open heart. She believes that we all have a divine light that is within us and Healing Touch is one way that allows the individual the ability to ignite that light to its fullest potential so we may have greater meaning and purpose in life. As a Healing Touch instructor it is her desire that each student grow to their fullest potential and “BE the light they are meant to be in the world.”