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If you seek the services of one of All Is Well Healing Center's six holistic practitioners and expect them to "fix" you, you're going to be disappointed.

"No one heals anybody else," said Dr. Kate Sheldon, a doctor of chiropractic and owner of the center formally known as Ardis Healing Center on East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville. "Our bodies know how to heal. They just need the raw materials, the building blocks, and the opportunity, really."

That is the common purpose of the practitioners, Sheldon said: to remove barriers to healing on all levels, mind, body and soul.

Sheldon said the biggest mistake most people make is being uninformed about their food source and where it originates.

"If you can't distinguish what living plant or animal the food you eat comes from, you shouldn't eat it," she said. "The biggest thing people can do is look at the ingredients. Try to find things that have five or less ingredients. If you can't read and intellectually determine what each ingredient is, like if it's a long line of chemical names, then it's probably not good for your body."

The practitioners in addition to Sheldon include CTS Physical Therapy; Julia Sauder, a national certified massage therapist, acupuncturist and a transpersonal bodywork therapist; Mary Jane Campbell, a certified Bodytalk practitioner; Meredith Harrison, a certified practitioner of Jin Shin Jyutsu and the Berkal Technique for Trauma Elimination; and Dr. Suzanne Jonas, who specializes in behavioral medicine, spiritual counseling, couples counseling, sound therapies, Emotional Freedom Technique, biofeedback, stress management and personal healing CDs.