What is Holistic health care? We often hear about the holistic approach to health care but not everyone may completely understand it.

The core idea of it is that all things are interconnected and these interacting parts make up the whole or organized system. The whole part is looked at, the whole part being formed by the connections of all the parts. Simply put- holistic medicine looks at all parts of the body and how they interact. Some may call this body-mind or integrated medicine.

When we apply this concept to health care we can then understand that the person is looked at as a whole-mind, body, and spirit. In conventional Western medicine the person is looked at in a different way, not as the whole but in separate entities. My philosophy is that we combine the proven record of traditional medicine but add some concepts of natural, and complimentary elements for the best possible health care. 

In conventional Western medicine the body belongs to medicine, the mind to psychology, and the spirit to religion or spirituality. The holistic model seems to make sense by bringing all of the above together because each part affects the other. For example; persistent headaches could be part of a stress response to something the person is going through. The holistic practitioner looks at the whole and considers this when assessing the patient.

We can even look to this idea on a much larger scale. We are part of a large network of humans that are living in and are using the resources of nature around us on the planet. We are an integral part of the whole system and our own wellness is interconnected with the wellness of our planet.

My philosophy is that we combine the proven record of traditional medicine but add some concepts of natural, and complimentary elements for the best possible health care.