The question “What Heals?” changed from professional and intellectual curiosity to a vital drive for survival when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1991. The night I came home from surgery to remove the tumor, I had dreams all night about the debilitation of cancer. I awoke with a clear message from Spirit to write about my experience going through this illness and to title the book Cancer As Initiation. Published in 1994 (Open Court Publishing Co., Chicago IL), this book became the popular form of my doctoral thesis on the emotional factors that influence cancer survival. Seventeen years after my cancer diagnosis, I am very grateful to be in radiant health.
I ask you readers, “How have the trials of your lives influenced who you became? Did any hardships turn into treasures once you passed through their fire, once they had ‘initiated’ you?”
I see that going through the initiation of cancer prepared me in a unique way for the turn my life took as I looked in depth at what was happening to my clients. To my surprise, I found that many were being influenced by earthbound spirit attachments and past life trauma—areas which neither my traditional Christian religious upbringing nor my formal education had prepared me for. As I prayed to Source energy for help, I began to see I could use tools from the exciting new field of Energy Psychology with the earthbound spirits to help them release the emotional disturbances from their immediate past lives and cross to the Light, setting my clients free. I could also use these same tools to set my clients free from the trauma in their own past lives.
As I write this blog post, my new book Invisible Roots: How Healing Past Life Trauma Can Liberate Your Present (2008, Energy Psychology Press: Elite Books) is being printed and will ship before the end of the month. I am so excited to finally see in print this “Soul Detective” work of looking underneath physical and emotional symptoms to the underlying structures that determine our behavior, to change dysfunctional patterns into creating the lives we really want!
