The Holistic Nurse Academy

Next week's podcast guest!

Liz Monson has nearly 3 decades of experience as a nurse practitioner and 18 years of experience chasing her passion for integrative medicine. She received an additional degree in Applied Healing Arts from Notre Dame Maryland University of Integrative Health. She graduated from the Andrew Weil Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. She is a certified Clinical Acupressure Therapist, Reiki Master, and yoga instructor. Liz has initiated integrative healing arts programs at hospitals in Maryland, Oregon, and Utah and conducted research as a principal investigator at these institutions focused on patient, provider, and hospital outcomes with integrative therapies. She published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Nurse Practitioners and Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine and has presented research findings at national and international medical conferences. She has opened her own practice, Integrative Medicine Options, focusing on consultations, acupressure treatments, and group workshops and education. She is a mom, a hiker, a reader, a theater fan, a traveler, and a chocolate connoisseur.

Meet Jennifer!

Jennifer is an RN and board-certified functional nurse coach, helping perimenopausal and menopausal women discover and address the root causes of chronic and autoimmune symptoms.

Her journey into holistic health began with her own struggles. Long-term antibiotic use as a child triggered an autoimmune disease, bringing years of difficult and embarrassing symptoms. In her early 30s, she became very ill with a severe flare. Conventional doctors recommended expensive, immune-suppressing drugs with significant risks. But suppressing her immune system didn’t feel like the right solution—she wanted to heal.

With the guidance of a holistic practitioner, she focused on healing her gut and reducing her toxic burden. The results were life-changing, and for the past 20 years, she has kept her symptoms well controlled.

Throughout her nursing career, she worked with thousands of patients suffering from chronic and autoimmune conditions. She became increasingly frustrated working within a system that offers very little education or support for true healing. Often, she met these patients at the end of their lives in her work as a hospice nurse.

After several years of dealing with her own grief and personal loss, she decided in 2023 to step away from conventional medicine. First, she began training as a functional nurse and then as a nurse coach. She now owns a virtual private practice, coaching women one-on-one. She loves helping her clients live their best lives!

She lives in Cu***ng, Georgia, with her husband of 32 years. They are the parents of three grown children and grandparents of two young grandsons. Nothing brings her more joy than spending time with her family and making memories. She loves being outdoors—camping, hiking, and kayaking rivers.

Nursing can be deeply meaningful work—and it can also leave you feeling depleted, disconnected, or wondering if there’s another way to use your skills.

At Holistic Nurse Academy, we believe nurses deserve more than education. You deserve tools, mentorship, community, and practical approaches that help you care for your patients without losing yourself in the process.

Through integrative nursing education, we help nurses explore new ways to support pain, anxiety, stress, healing, and overall well-being—while expanding what is possible within a nursing career.

Whether you’re looking to:
• Build new clinical skills
• Bring more holistic approaches to the bedside
• Find greater balance in your work
• Learn from experienced professionals
• Reconnect with why you became a nurse in the first place

…there is another path forward.

You don’t have to leave nursing to do nursing differently.

Learn. Grow. Reconnect. Thrive.

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Tammy Anderson Ward is the creator and producer of the Energy Healing Conference. Since 2014, her family has produced 100 large conferences and events, and she has published several books, produced dozens of healing retreats, and mentored hundreds of clients a year since 2015. In 2024 she opened the Wellness Studio in Tremonton, Utah, offering group and individual breathwork. She's certified in several energy healing modalities and foot zoning, and serves on the board of the National Certification Center of Energy Practitioners.

Tammy has been clean from m**h for 27 years and speaks openly about depression, addiction, and healing. "Heal loudly, because we almost lost you in silence" is central to her work. She and her husband Casey met in 5th grade, have been married 27+ years, and have 8 children and 3 grandbabies.