Our Approach

Health care - not disease care - is the essence of our approach at Sacred-Flame Center & Fragrance-Soul Institute of Healing Science. We believe that health is dynamic, that quality of life is a result of actualizing possibilities, and that wellness begins not with a scalpel or a pill but with choices - your choices.

Our Contribution

Our contribution has several parts that work together synergistically to create beneficial health care experiences.

Being effective for us, being effective means getting to the root of the problem, not simply suppressing symptoms. To do this, our we utilize an holistic approach to natural healing. Briefly, this means that we combine carefully selected practices from various health care systems that address physiological, psychoemotional, social, and spiritual aspects of health and illness. We particularly emphasize each person's capacity for healing and lifestyle-intensive, low-level invasive treatment approaches.

A primary philosophical source for our approach is the Principles of Naturopathic Medicine. A primary empirical source for our approach is the scientific medical literature from which we can draw evidence-based interventions and current "best practices." However, given the limitations of "evidence-based medicine," We also draw upon interventions band spirituality, and modern psychological theory. The result is that rather than focusing only on physical improvement, we strive to enhance several parameters of health, including improved function.

Individualized Health plans: since each person is biochemically unique, "cookbook" approaches are often recipes for failure. We create tailored, Client-centered solutions that are exclusive to each Client and designed to address the specific needs of that person. This concern and attention to detail takes more time, but like any well-crafted instrument, individualized Health and healing plans provide numerous long-term benefits.

Ecological considerations in its most general sense, ecology is the study of the relationships between living entities and their environment. Genetically, human beings are designed to thrive within a certain set of limited ecological parameters. When faced with medical decisions, however, it is often difficult to know which choices best support your unique ecological structure - that is, the least toxic, most sustainable, and most supportive of your personal conception of wellness. Should you change your diet or take cholesterol-lowering medications? Which supplements are safe and effective? Is an exercise program, anti-depressant, or referral to a mental health professional the best choice when struggling with a mood disorder? We provides more options for cost-effective solutions that respect the ecology of the human person.

Focus on education it is impossible to make informed choices unless you understand the implications of what you are choosing. For us, education is about taking the time to explain how, what, and why things are happening so that you can make intelligent health decisions. Once the problem has been identified, it is the education provided about the problem that serves as the foundation for successful, Client-centered solutions.

Team approach good medicine does not happen in isolation. The field of healing and medicine is much too broad for any one individual to be able to be an expert in everything. For that reason, we work with a broad range of medical professionals, including the one's you are comfortable with, in order to optimize your care.