Ellen E. Swanson, MA, RN, BSN, PHN, HNB-BC (Retired), HSGAHN is retired from a 46 year nursing career that included ortho-rehab, mental health, OR, care management, consulting, and supervision.  She also had a private practice in holistic nursing for 15 years, focusing on health and wellness teaching and counseling.  She served on the leadership council for the Minnesota Holistic Nurses Association for ten years.

Her writing incorporates MRM through intuitive, heart-based, and spiritual ways of knowing and being with humans and animals.  She illustrates this via storytelling as in the AHNA “Beginnings” magazine issues for June, October, and December of 2021, February and August of 2022, December of 2023, and December of 2024, the latter in the article by Ellen Schultz.  She has also published a booklet, Lessons for Dancing the Long Good-Bye:  Seven Steps to Making Peace with Alzheimer’s, which focuses on how to relate to those with Alzheimer’s.  She has published a book, Heart, Gut, Head:  Creating a Healthier Hierarchy. 

Link: https://nursology.net/exemplars/practice-theory-exemplars/using-mandalas-an-holistic-approach-to-practice/12-connecting-theory-and-practice/Contact info requested: swandance2000@yahoo.com