Student Spotlight
Deborah White, RN; Candidate for Masters of Science in Holistic Nutrition
Born in snowy Michigan, Deborah White earned her nursing degree in New York in the early 1980s. She later co-founded a Staten Island holistic health clinic after her early burnout with the acute care drama of hospital settings.
Like a butterfly engaged in a continuous metamorphosis, she has recently followed a persistent calling to relocate to the warm deserts of America’s calmer, more peaceful, sprawling Southwest. “I am trusting my intuition and following my light,” she says, “and it keeps taking me higher. Sedona, Arizona, is known in Native American tradition as an epicenter of psychic healing. It is truly my heart-home.”
Like many who enter healthcare professions in order to help others, Deb as a young nurse was wide-eyed astonished at how unhealthy she perceived the hospital environment to be – for practitioners as well as for the patients.
She calls it divine guidance that led her to a nursing job in an open-heart intensive care unit. “There I observed patients who emotionally were totally closed-off. They had never expressed the joy in their hearts, and their family members just stood over them and cried. I saw so many executives who couldn’t even be still when they were intubated and heavily sedated. These Type-A, driven personalities had always been so busy making a living for their families that they had never slowed down long enough to enjoy sharing life with their loved ones. Some were literally dying of a broken heart, weary from the constant energy hemorrhage.
“Working in an open heart ICU literally opened my own heart. Like many of my disillusioned nursing colleagues, I knew right down to my toenails that I needed to be somewhere else. I wanted to learn about preventive healthcare, and I wanted to teach others.”
Deb is now a member of the American Holistic Nursing Association (AHNA) and co-founder of Two Angels Healing. She is a student of CCNH and also of a distance-learning metaphysics program that emphasizes the angelic intuition and intervention teachings of Doreen Virtue. “I find the CCNH teachings to be every bit as rigorous as my traditional nursing school training, and yet more attuned to allowing each student to create a unique educational path.”
Two Angels offers healing therapies and a spa-like setting. Its one guesthouse has all the charm and most of the amenities of a bed-and-breakfast, but without the noisy busy-ness of a boarding house. Both owners provide holistic consultation as well as polarity therapy, which Deb describes as an energetic bodywork modality that combines elements of Reiki with the client’s own focused attention in setting their own healing intention into motion. A client’s intention might be based in spiritual seeking, rebuilding their emotional or physical health, or even all three.
For Deb White, a metaphysical approach to holistic health lets her blend the nurturing, collaborative aspects of nursing with the self-empowering tenets of active decision making. “When we make intelligent choices, such as exercise, nutrition, meditation rather than medication, our own guardian angels rejoice. They want to help us fly to higher levels. They are always with us, eager to provide comfort, guidance, and to be of service.”
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