Healing Touch
Discover the story, practice, research, and evolution of Healing Touch—from one nurse’s vision to a global community bringing compassionate, whole-person care into the world.
By Linda Lee Smith and Lisa Mentgen-Gordon
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Why This Book Matters Now
Healing Touch began with a nurse’s vision: that compassionate presence, intentional touch, and an understanding of the human energy field could support comfort, balance, and whole-person care.
What began with Janet Mentgen grew into an international educational program and a community of practitioners, students, instructors, healthcare professionals, and others committed to bringing a more whole-person approach to healing.
Today, Healing Touch stands
at an important point in its story.
A new generation is discovering energy-based approaches to health and well-being. Healthcare continues to explore the relationship between the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions of healing. And within the Healing Touch community, there is an opportunity to look back at what shaped this work while also asking how we carry its heart and principles forward.
Healing Touch: Restoring Balance Through the Human Energy Field brings those pieces together.
Through history, personal stories, practice, research, and the voices of people who helped shape the work, the book explores where Healing Touch came from, how it developed, what we understand today, and where it may be headed next.
Whether Healing Touch has been part of your life for decades or you are encountering it for the first time, this book offers a fuller understanding of the work and why it continues to matter.
The story of Healing Touch was no longer the story of one nurse. It was becoming the story of a community.
— Healing Touch: Restoring Balance Through the Human Energy Field
Who This Book Is For
You don’t need to be a Healing Touch practitioner to find something meaningful in this book.
Healing Touch: Restoring Balance Through the Human Energy Field was written for people who want to better understand healing, compassionate presence, the human energy field, and the remarkable story of how one nurse’s vision grew into a worldwide community.
A Healing Touch Student or Practitioner
Deepen your understanding of the roots of the work, the principles behind the practice, the research, and the community you are part of.
A Healing Touch Instructor or Longtime Community Member
Reconnect with the people, experiences, and values that shaped Healing Touch while looking toward what comes next.
A Nurse, Healthcare Professional, or Caregiver
Explore a whole-person approach that grew from nursing and continues to be used alongside conventional care in healthcare and community settings.
An Energy or Holistic Practitioner
Discover how Healing Touch brings together energetic awareness, compassionate presence, professional practice, ethics, and ongoing inquiry.
Someone Curious About Healing Touch or the Human Energy Field
Begin with the story, explore what happens in a Healing Touch session, and learn how this work has developed over more than four decades.
Someone Who Believes Caring Itself Matters
At its heart, this is also a book about presence, relationship, service, and what can happen when one person meets another with genuine compassion.
The techniques we learn are important. The person we become while practicing them is equally important.
— Chapter 8, Ethics, Professionalism, and the Path of the Practitioner
Explore the Story, Practice, and Future of Healing Touch
Across 18 chapters, Healing Touch: Restoring Balance Through the Human Energy Field brings together history, personal stories, practice, research, professional development, and a look at where Healing Touch is going next.
The Roots of Healing Touch
Meet Janet Mentgen and discover how one nurse’s curiosity, compassion, and commitment to whole-person care grew into an international Healing Touch community.
Every movement begins with someone who sees the world differently.
Often, the body receives the work before the mind has language for it.
Understanding the Practice of Healing Touch
Explore the human energy field, what happens during a Healing Touch session, the role of ethics and professionalism, and the relationship between Healing Touch and scientific inquiry.
The Impact of Healing Touch
Explore the real-life experiences of clients, patients, caregivers, students, and practitioners, including the ways Healing Touch may support physical comfort, emotional balance, deep inner peace, and the healing journey.
The true meaning of this work becomes clear through lived experience.
A living lineage does not stay still.
Branches of the Healing Touch Lineage
Discover how the foundations of Healing Touch have expanded into related areas of service, including Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry, aromatherapy, and Healing Touch for Animals®, while remaining rooted in presence, intention, compassion, and respect for the whole being.
Carrying Healing Touch Forward
Explore simple self-care practices inspired by Healing Touch and consider how the work may continue evolving in healthcare, communities, families, education, and the lives of future practitioners.
The story of Healing Touch does not end with understanding the work. It continues in how we live, care, and serve.
Some Books Are Meant to Be Passed Along
Healing Touch has always grown through people sharing what they have learned, experienced, and received with someone else.
This book offers another way to continue that tradition.
You may know a nurse who is searching for a more whole-person way to care. A student just beginning to explore energy healing. A longtime practitioner who would treasure the history. A colleague who has been curious about Healing Touch. Or someone in your own life who simply understands that presence, compassion, and caring matter.
Healing Touch: Restoring Balance Through the Human Energy Field can be read individually, but it can also become a conversation, a teaching resource, a gift, or an introduction to this work.
Who Might You Share a Copy With?
- Healing Touch students and practitioners
- Nurses and other healthcare professionals
- Energy and holistic practitioners
- Friends, family members, and caregivers
- Students, colleagues, or members of your professional community
- Libraries, healing centers, wellness practices, and educational programs
One book can introduce one person to Healing Touch. A collection of books can help the story travel much farther.
Share Healing Touch With Your Community
Whether you want copies for students, colleagues, a professional gathering, or people you care about, choose the package that fits the way you want to share Healing Touch: Restoring Balance Through the Human Energy Field.
A Few to Share
Perfect for colleagues, friends, students, or people in your Healing Touch circle.
Share With a Small Group
A natural fit for study groups, practices, gatherings, or several meaningful gifts.
Share With Your Community
Ideal for instructors, organizations, wellness practices, healthcare groups, and professional communities.
Help the Story Travel Further
For organizations, educators, events, programs, and larger communities ready to place the book into more hands.
Choose your paperback package in our online store and help share the story of Healing Touch with the people and communities that matter to you.
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Want Just One Copy or Prefer the Hardcover Edition?
Individual paperback and hardcover editions will be available on Amazon September 15. Join the Healing Touch Book Launch List and we’ll send you the Amazon link when the book goes live.
Two Voices. One Shared Commitment to Healing Touch.
Linda Lee Smith and Lisa Mentgen-Gordon bring together decades of experience, personal history, professional practice, and a deep connection to the Healing Touch community to tell the story of where this work began, how it has grown, and where it may go next.
Linda Lee Smith, RN, MS, HTCP, CCA
Linda Lee Smith is a nurse, educator, Healing Touch practitioner and instructor, holistic health teacher, and author whose work has centered on whole-person healing for decades.
Her early nursing career led her through healthcare administration, home health, emergency care, and hospice, while her search for a deeper approach to healing eventually brought her to energy-based care. She went on to teach Healing Touch, holistic health, and aromatherapy and developed an international continuing education program through the Institute of Spiritual Healing and Aromatherapy, reaching thousands of students over 25 years.
Linda is the author of nearly 40 books and continues to write, teach, and share her commitment to healing, self-care, and personal transformation. In Healing Touch: Restoring Balance Through the Human Energy Field, she brings both a practitioner’s perspective and decades of firsthand experience within the Healing Touch community.
Lisa Mentgen-Gordon
Lisa Mentgen-Gordon is a leader, educator, publisher, and advocate for Healing Touch and the broader field of energy-based and whole-person care. As the daughter of Healing Touch founder Janet Mentgen, she grew up alongside the development of Healing Touch and brings a uniquely personal perspective to its history, growth, and continuing evolution.
Today, Lisa leads the Healing Touch Program and works across several organizations dedicated to supporting practitioners, education, professional development, and the advancement of energy and holistic healing. Her work has focused on strengthening the communities and resources that help practitioners learn, grow, and bring compassionate care into the world.
In Healing Touch: Restoring Balance Through the Human Energy Field, Lisa combines her memories of Janet as both a mother and visionary leader with her own experience helping carry Healing Touch forward. Her perspective connects the personal story of Healing Touch with the larger community that has shaped, practiced, and sustained the work for more than four decades.
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JOIN THE BOOK LAUNCH LISTHealing Touch has always grown through people who were willing to learn, care, and share. We hope this book becomes part of that continuing story.
