About

Melodie Joy, BGS, BSN, RN

As a Registered Nurse, I have  had a lifetime interest in holistic health. Using my education and my experience in the alternative medicine field, I really enjoy helping people help themselves retain and regain their health naturally.

I graduated from St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. I also hold a Bachelor of General Studies with a science and math emphasis from Indiana University.

Professional memberships include the American Holistic Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau International, the Honor Society of Nursing.

I am also certified as a licensed practitioner of:

• Neuro-Linguistic Programming
• Emotional Freedom Techniques levels 1 and 2
• Usui Reiki level 3
• Mahatma Reiki level 3.
• additional training certificates in Compassionate Listening and Quantum Touch.

Why holistic?

My story with alternative healing began in the winter of 1981. I had been walking too long outside with inappropriate footwear and developed frostbite. One toe became gangrenous.

The doctor I saw said, “it will either heal or it won’t”. If it doesn’t get better in a few weeks, come back and we’ll amputate it.”

I was a very young woman who didn’t know much, but I wasn’t about to wait around for a toe to be removed. So I sought answers at the library and through friends (pre-internet days), and found a naturopathic physician who I was sure had goats and chickens in a back room somewhere. His evaluation resulted in an herbal concoction that tasted worse than anything that had ever touched my tongue, but I drank it. I faithfully drank that awful tea and the gangrene faded into nothingness. In fact, the intense cold sensitivity in my hands and feet also disappeared. I was grateful, and opened my mind to the unconventional.

Since that time, I have had three babies delivered at home, attended a very traditionally-oriented nursing school, and worked for a clinic that uses various alternative therapies. I’ve learned that the metabolic needs of the body are nutritional and energetic in nature. And chronic illness doesn’t go away with a magic pill; the body and spirit calls out for appropriate nurturance.

Along the way I developed insulin-dependent diabetes. A vulnerable pancreas, assaulted by an unknown virus, toxin, or other agent, gave out. The general instructions from primary care physicians and endocrinologists was, “don’t eat candy, and learn to cover your high blood sugar readings with more insulin”. My research habits and the body’s feedback led me to a better way to handle this disorder. Today I am fit and healthy, and most people have no idea that I have “a condition”. Even my daughter said, “Mom, I keep forgetting that you are diabetic.” Cool.

So the learning curve has been long but very useful. I have assembled the years of experience and information into bite-sized chunks: a day-long seminar, a weekly teleclass, and private phone consultations. Because diabetes requires a gradual  journey into the realm of thinking, eating, and moving differently, I invite you to join this walk this road toward health together.

Call me at 574.274.1443
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