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Cultivating Peace Through Health Culture Diplomacy where Technology Meets Tradition


Benefits for Premier Members
Want Greater Balance in Body and Peace of Mind?
Feeling Uncertain about What to Do While Waiting for Care and Deciding What's Best?
You Have the Power Within You to Heal Yourself!
Find Relief Today at Golden Apple Healing Arts!
Our Mission ~
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Build A Nurse-Led Holistic Health Education Community rooted in Health Culture Diplomacy as the Integration of biomedical and traditional healing demonstrated with kindness.
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Lead Education that Reforms the Focus in Healthcare from Pathogenesis (Disease) to Salutogenesis (Health)-Oriented Solutions (SOS!).
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Provide Highest Quality Precision Self-care Education and Resources for Making Affordable Safe Healthcare Choices with Plants as Partners During Periods of Watchful Waiting.
Here you will find:
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A Precision Self-care framework grounded in observation and pattern recognition
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Holistic clinical education for nurses and caring professionals
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Gentle, relational plant partnerships that restore balance in body, mind, and spirit
With more than 30 years of innovation in healing arts education, Golden Apple Healing Arts invites you to deepen your relationship with your body, community, and the living world of plants.

A Unique Plant Perspective
Plants are a vital part of the healing practices of the peoples of the world across cultures. They are a part of modern bio-medical and ancient healing traditions.
At Golden Apple Healing Arts we honor:
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translation of hundreds of clinical trials
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biomedical research of plant constituents,
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historical evidence from healing traditions and application of traditional botanical healing techniques
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the lived experience and stories of plant-human partnerships participants bring to learning
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integration of plant-human partnerships into everyday life and clinical practice
Here you’re invited to explore precision Self-care, deepen your clinical wisdom, and see plants not as products, supplements, or drugs but as partners in care

Featured Programs & Resources:
Herbal Diplomat® Nurse-Herbalist Program – A three-module pathway for precision Self-Care and holistic clinical practice
The Elements of Care® – A foundational Energetics First course in precision Self-care for balance in body and peace of mind
Self-care Institute Memberships – For ongoing webinars, video resources, and guided learning
Integrative Nursing Support – Holistic approaches, tools, and professional development for nurses and APRNs
Free Resources – Articles, webinars, and downloads supporting Self-care and plant wisdom
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At Golden Apple Healing Arts We Integrate:
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Energetics First — a time-honored approach rooted in traditional medicine that emphasizes observation and pattern recognition before intervention
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Remembrance Medicine — the understanding that much of what supports healing is already present in the body, the home, daily rhythm, and story
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Precision Self-Care with plants as partners — relational, practical, and accessible ways to engage your own health wisdom. This approach does not replace biomedical care; it expands your capacity for agency, discernment, and balance so you can participate more wisely in your own health and in care for others
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Learn how to make mindful, safe, affordable, and informed healthcare choices while you’re waiting for care.
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Promote Salutogenesis - Oriented - Solutions (S.O.S.) - Health Promotion Focus
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Integrate the Art and Science of Healing Traditions and Emerging Health Technologies
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Apply Hundreds of Non-Pharmaceutical Drug Solutions
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Get Simple Fresh Ideas for Self-care Recipes and Remedies
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Cultivate Peacemaking Health Culture Diplomacy Skills
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Pick Plant Partners to Heal with Precision!
What GAHA Offers Nurses and APRNs:
Build your skills and confidence with educational pathways like:
Precision Self-care for Nurses
The Elements of Care® Program for Beating Burnout!
Available as paperback and e-pub download
Precision Nursing Science
For Self-study or Course-ready Textbook
Now available as paperback and e-pub download
We cultivate a broader vision for health that includes community, peace, and cultural wisdom through programs, dialogues, and partnerships.
Practical tools and education for nurses and APRNs embracing holistic practice, precision Self-Care, and salutogenic care models.
Advancing Ancient Healing Traditions
Wise people of many cultures have prophesied that the 21st century would be a time when people would find greater ways to integrate traditions and emerging science.
The mission of the Choreosophy Institute is to lead that integration of tradition and technology process through education, peacemaking and health culture diplomacy.


Dr. Martha Libster in EGYPT 2023 pointing to the 6th dynasty hieroglyph showing the practice of Foot Reflexology at the entrance of the Tomb of Ankhm'ahor at Saqqara (the physician's tomb). Below is an artist rendering of the hieroglyph that "reads" "do not let it hurt."
Treatment or Class with Dr. Martha:
Science of Energy Flow with Herbal Stress Relief is the Most Complete Accessible Health Care. It includes Dr. Martha's unique blend of Foot Zone Theory and techniques learned in her certification with Dr. Charles Ersdal of Norway, Herbal Applications to the Feet learned with OMA - German reflexologist, and her decades of experience in nurse-herbalism and caring science.


HERBAL DIPLOMAT CERTIFICATION FOR NURSES - MODULE 2 Virtual Guided Self-StudyRegistration is OpenVirtual Guided Self-study Program
HERBAL DIPLOMAT CERTIFICATION - MODULE 2 Virtual Guided Self-StudyRegistration is OpenVirtual Guided Self-study Program

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
Attributed to St. Francis of Assisi and Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971)


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