The author, Barbara Montgomery Dossey, explores a series of events that have shaped her professional and personal life endeavors. Dossey became interested in the emerging field of holistic health and became aware of setting new personal health goals, meditating, learning self-regulations strategies, and eating healthier. To Dossey, a holistic ethic is the moral fiber of nursing. From the beginning of her career, she has been aware of a professional nursing code of ethics, which she has integrated with her personal ethical code. During her doctoral studies, she began the development of her Theory of Integral Nursing (TIN). TIN is a grand theory that guides the art and science of integral nursing practice, education, research, and health care policy. This theory recognizes the philosophical foundation and legacy of Florence Nightingale, healing and healing research, the metaparadigm of nursing, the six patterns of knowing, integral theory, and nonnursing theories.