I consult with clients about any of their concerns in body, mind, emotions, and spirit.
My physician parents helped me understand that much of our healing comes from within through proactive self accountability health practices. One role of the physician is to help facilitate this process for the patient.
My college and medical school studies were combined with independent studies of world spiritual paths and cultural healing modalities. As a general, vascular, and trauma surgeon in Boulder, Colorado for 20 years, I developed and integrated the elemental components of the Haelan LifeStream model into my surgical practice as a teaching tool to assist patients with their life process issues.
In 2001, I retired from the surgical work to establish the Haelan LifeStream Center, offering the model on a full time basis.
In 2007, I moved the Center to Crestone, Colorado, a community located at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, just north of the Great Sand Dunes, in southern Colorado’s San Luis Valley. This community is well known for embracing sustainability and healing practices, and it is home to numerous spiritual centers of Eastern and Western paths.
Please see this short article published in JustLuxe Magazine in May, 2014, which covers some historical aspects of my life long journey in the medical world, as well as my approach with clients.
Since this service is not marketed or advertised, the offering has been built around word of mouth referral. Your referrals are appreciated.
Degrees and Professional Practice
- Haelan LifeStream health consulting practice, Crestone, CO, 2007-2025
- Medical Director, Emergency Medical Services, Crestone, CO, 2007-2009
- Haelan LifeStream health consulting practice, Boulder, CO, 2001-2007
- General, Vascular, and Trauma Surgery practice, 1981-2001, Boulder Medical Center, Boulder, CO
- Chairman, Department of Surgery, 1990-1992, Boulder Community Hospital
- Chief Administrative Resident, General Surgery, 1981, University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore, MD
- General Surgery Residency, 1979 -1981, University of Maryland Hospital, Baltimore, MD
- General Surgery Residency, 1977-1979, Tulane Division, Charity Hospital of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA
- M.D., 1977, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
- B.S., Chemistry and Biology, 1973, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
- High School Diploma, 1969, Sewanee Military Academy, Sewanee, TN
Some other Life Experiences
It is August, 2025. I am posting some descriptions of some of my other life experiences below.
My Shark Story…this writing is a light hearted novelette about some exciting times in my earlier years which led into the milestones of professional engagements seen in the list above. I have not had a dull life. This writing describes a few early adventures.
After the days described in My Shark Story I practiced general, vascular, and trauma surgery for 25 years, followed by the holistic lifestyle consulting practice for the next 25 years.
The things touched on below happened along the way over these past 50 years. These little descriptions cover some of my spiritual connections.
Dr. John Day’s Way of Natural Healing…My time as a physician was always going to be a spiritual journey in terms of how I related to it. This article references some spiritual aspects of my medical journey, starting with my physician mother’s statement that it is God who does the healing. She said this when I was 12 years old. This declaration became the foundational operating principle of my life as a physician. It was an initiation into the truest kind of orientation that I could have received at the time.
The article also references my affinity for the traiteur way of offering healing energy to people and other kinds of beings. This orientation started for me back in the Tulane Medical School and surgery training days, and continued with a hands off-body energetic healing technique called Reconnective Healing, which I began to practice in 2001 after I retired from practicing surgery.
Energetic healing modalities are many in number, and have been with us all along, starting with the first laying on of hands eons ago. For the first 25 years my hands were inside of patients’ bodies, and then for the next 25 years my hands were off the physical body in the patients’ electromagnetic field. The word traiteur is somewhat obscure. It originated with the Cajun people of Louisiana and is one of their ways of healing with prayer, faith, and the laying on of hands. There could be such electromagnetic types of healing arts taught in medical schools, and practiced in hospitals, clinics, and doctors’ offices as an adjunct to assist conventional therapies.
Below is a picture of a goldfinch who struck a house window and fell to the ground, and lay there as still as a stone. I went out, picked up its unconscious limp body and sat with my feathered friend in prayer for a good bit of time. It began to regain consciousness. The little thing flew up into a juniper tree after it regained its flight ability.
I wrote about this in the Journal entry entitled Prayer.
