Pg. 20 2025-26 Health & Wellness Magazine Lincoln Daily News Balancing life Exploring the practice of Holistic Health with Marcia Cook Marcia Cook of Moksha Center in Lincoln has long been interested in helping people acquire good health. She began her career in traditional medicine and is a licensed nurse. Along the way, she began to recognize that good health was more than treating illness or disease it was a matter of treating the whole body. To that end, she began exploring Holistic health as an addition to her medical training. She took training and told LDN that when she found a teacher, she was excited to hear that the teacher had taken a similar path as Cook, starting out as a nurse in traditional medicine. Cook said that there are many times when an illness is connected to something deeper and in order to successfully treat the illness one needs to address the mind-body-spirit of the patient, which is the foundation of Holistic health and medicine. Cook has acquired her license as a certified Holistic Healing Touch Practitioner as well as being certified as a life coach. She said that with this training, she helps people find the balance in their lives that is often needed in order to recover and even avoid illness. Something that Cook finds encouraging is that today more and more medical doctors are recognizing the tie between that balance and good health and even curing or avoiding illness. As an example, she said that a person may have gastrointestinal issues that are quite serious. In decades past, doctors would have treated the condition with medications and hope that the issue was resolved. However, in recent times, doctors are more and more realizing that while sometimes an illness is just an illness, there are times when an illness is tied to a deeper issue. Sticking with the GI issues she said that many times, people experience those types of issues because of stress, either emotional or physical. Today doctors are diving deeper with their patients trying to find the root source of an illness. Continued --
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