The gifts of the week

The gifts of the week…

• On Monday, Moses returned back to school for his first full day of school in almost two weeks. That night, he surprised us by reading a book that he hadn’t read before, which was longer and more complicated than other books that he typically reads. Wow! Not only that, Moses’ teacher called us that night to also let us know that Moses’ also surprised her by reading a similarly complicated book at school too!
• Moses playing street hockey with some of his neighbourhood friends. It’s really not my imagination — something this month has really clicked for him physically — he really is more present and confident in his body.
• Today, he took his scooter out for the first time this year, and again, suddenly he has the coordination to ride and balance on his scooter.
• He has seemed happier in the last couple of days since the third abscess was drained.
• On our first night back at home after this week’s ordeal, when Moses was supposed to be sleeping, he left two notes for DH and me on our respective night tables. One said, “I love you Mom. From Moses”. The other said, “I love you Dad. From Moses”.

It feels like as these abscesses are being drained ,and poisons and toxins are being released from his system, he is energetically, emotionally, mentally and physically clearer and healthier. It’s showing up on all aspects of his being.

More good news…

• The site of the last drainage has healed sooooo quickly. Last year, it took abscesses that were surgically drained 3-4 weeks to heal and we had daily visits from the nurse for days on end. The last site was drained on Tuesday and now, three days later, the swelling is already down and the site doesn’t need to be packed with a wick anymore, and it will probably completely close and heal within the next couple of days.
• His left armpit, which a few days ago looked like it might be developing a secondary abscess, seems like it’s settling down.
• Today, the surgeon remarked that Moses’ abscesses have a way of walling itself off from the rest of his body (i.e., containing the infection). The surgeon explained that this doesn’t always happen, and is actually a huge blessing that had never occurred to me before. I really do like Moses’ surgeon. He has a way that completely puts the whole family at ease.

There are still two abscesses that are not yet resolved– one on the back of his neck and one on his jawline. He is scheduled for an ultrasound early next week, and the plan will be to hopefully drain both of them at the same time under general anesthesia due to the sensitivity of these areas.

Please continue to keep our family in your prayers.

God’s healing power

I woke up this morning to Moses coming into our room crying and inconsolable. In pain. Sad. It was early in the morning considering that he had to fast and our appointment wasn’t until 10 am.

He looked up and told me through his tears, “I asked God to use his healing power to burst my bump, and it’s still there”.

Oh.

My.

Heart.

My heart broke in pieces. For my boy’s pain. For his pure belief in God’s power, and also his potential disillusionment with God’s healing power.

And me unable to articulate that I really do believe that God’s healing power is real to my six year old, despite the fact that both of our prayers have (seemingly) gone unanswered.

So, I broke down and cried. I came down into my body to be fully with my boy, and sobbed real tears and joined in his pain.

And, somehow, through the grace of God, that shifted everything.

Moses stopped his crying and came over to me, to comfort me. To let me know that everything was going to be okay.

I believe that God is always with us, but in that moment, both of us felt God’s healing presence. We were fully present to God in that moment.

And in that moment, Moses stopped identifying with his pain.

We spent the next 2.5 hours before his appointment playing cars and trucks, and playing BeyBlades, and then when DH came home after his run, all three of us did spontaneous yoga poses, and Moses showed us how flexible he is, and he punched and he kicked and showed us how strong his body really is.

The hours flew by.

Moses practicing his high kicks, minutes before we left for the hospital. (And, yes, I recently celebrated a milestone birthday)

It was an every day miracle.

Healthy and strong

I have more good news to share. We saw our  naturopath this week. I love seeing our naturopath because she can see the long-view with Moses. We generally only see her every 6 months to a year, so she can see the big picture.

She reminded us how far Moses has come. How healthy and strong he looks. How his body isn’t showing signs of being stressed with allergies, as it once did. How his skin looks so healthy. We’ve been seeing this naturopath since Moses was three years old, and she reminded us how his skin once looked. Inflamed. Infected and weeping in places. Raw. Sore-looking.   And it covered much of his body – his scalp, his neck, his ears, parts of his face, his entire back, groin, arms and legs. (As an aside, when Moses was two years old, we saw a cranialsacral therapist who tried to bring attention to the part of his body that wasn’t covered in rashes. She told me, “Look at how clear his feet are”. God love her. Reminds me of our angel at A&W).

I explained our current protocol (which is generally using essential oils and probiotics — we’ve really simplified things), and she was happy with what we’re doing. I wanted her thoughts on us taking a break from homeopathy. I’m still concerned with some things — he had gone through a period of time when he was still needing his ventolin puffer quite regularly (but now that I reflect on it, in the last couple of weeks, Moses hasn’t really been needing his ventolin puffer very regularly at all), he’s been having night terrors again from time to time, and something else had recently popped up (which is a whole other story, which I’ll fill you in on soon).

She reminded us that we have worked so hard over the last few years healing him (really his whole life – almost 7 years), and Moses has gone through a lot during that time. She liked what we were doing — taking a break from homeopathy so that we can see how his body can do on its own. She thought some of the “flare ups” may be Moses’ body pushing stuff out on its own. And regarding his lungs, she thought that with time as his body strengthens, his lungs will strengthen too. She sees Moses’ body just getting stronger and stronger, with fewer and fewer flare ups, and with the flare ups becoming less and less of an issue. Interestingly, her vision is very similar to the message that our shamanic healer recently shared. A vision that mirrors my own feelings and inner truth.

She did have a couple of suggestions:

• She suggested that we start him back on Vitamin B12 (she thought it would help the corner of his lips, which are still cracked), so we’ll make more of an effort to bring that back into our routine. We got out of the routine when Genestra changed the formulation of their Multi-B complex, which Moses didn’t like the taste of. He didn’t even like the taste of their Bio-Vitamin B12 plus Folic Acid chewable tablets, which taste like a chalky candy (I think they taste good), but we’ll be more consistent with it since it’s important.
• She asked if we were still making sure that he was getting sources of dietary omega 3s, like flax seed oil and hemp seeds (which he is), but it’s so good for the reminder.
• She suggested the following lung tonic: Pulmogen by Genestra (which truthfully, we likely won’t doing since it’s very, very challenging to get supplements into Moses, especially ones that have a strong taste). But it’s good to know that we have some options to explore in the future.

After the session, she sent me an email that said, “It is so good to see Moses so strong and healthy.”

Again, it’s more and more confirmation that we are on the right path. More confirmation that my boy is healing. He’s really really healing. He is healthy and strong. Healthy and strong. Healthy and strong. A dream come true.

A soul’s contract

We had a soul contract, an upper world contract. We were both teachers when we made this contract, but he has often been my teacher in past lives.  I have been told this time and time again.  Just as he is my teacher in the present.

In this lifetime, he agreed to have a terrible condition that would be difficult to treat. That was to be his soul’s journey. To overcome it.

And it would be my soul’s journey to help him overcome it.

As they say, the most difficult times in our lives hold the greatest rewards.

It was to be our destiny. The highest destiny for our lives.

It is my greatest destiny in this lifetime to be Moses’ mom. To lead him through this difficult time. So that I could rediscover “my own true medicine”. Vibrationally. Spiritually. Including the healing power of plant medicine.

I have learned to listen. To trust.

To listen. To trust.

And, we are making it through.

One of my healers informed me today that Moses’ soul told her that he would be done most of his medical difficulties by the time he is 7 years old. He showed her, holding up 7 fingers. Seven.

And, he will be 7 years old in May of this year.  Hallelujah.

I can feel it. I know it be to true.

And it is so, and so it is.

Our story is not unique. On a soul level, your child has chosen you.

My dear friends, listen to that deep and wisest voice within, and you will find healing for your child. You will.

I am learning that there are many paths to healing. Just as there are many paths to God.

You and your child together will find the way back to health.

Ten of Cups

After I took a break from writing my last post, I chose three tarot cards. And one of the cards that I choose was: Ten of Cups.

It’s definitely a sign for me to open my eyes and see how very, very, very, very blessed our family is.

To open my eyes and see that Moses is really, really, really, really healing.

Be patient, my little ducky. Be patient.

All is unfolding.

All is coming.

Enjoy this moment now.

You have a happy and healthy boy.

You have an amazing husband.

You are blessed beyond belief.

Open your eyes and see the truth.

You don’t need to do anything special or do more of anything.

You are enough.

You can rest. It is safe for you to rest.

Moses is safe and he will be forevermore.

He always has been and he always will be.

I have always held him in my arms.

Just as I do you, and all of my children.

Ten of Cups

It’s a picture of a happy family, and this is what it means:

Happiness. Love. Fulfillment.

A promise fulfilled.

Dreams really can come true; you can be blessed with good fortune, success and a warm, loving family.

Rainbows appear after it has rained – the storm is over and the indications are that the positive situation will endure.

Loving relationships.

Happiness – spiritual and emotional blessings.

My cup is overflowing….

And, it is so and so it is.

Happy Family

My dear friend, Emma, drew this picture of our family when Moses was in the hospital back in August. It’s a drawing of a vision that came to her when we were talking on the phone. It’s entitled, Happy Family.

She saw Moses as a Super Boy, so energized, and being healed by Archangel Raphael, and supported by DH and me. Archangel Raphael is the supreme healer in the angelic realm and he supports, heals, and guides all matters involving health.

Remember how I was mentioned how energized he was during this hospital visit, how his energy was running so high…

I love this picture and I’m going to keep this vision in my heart the next time I need to draw on strength and inspiration. It’s such a great reminder of how much spiritual support we have. We are not alone and are supported in all things.

Thanks so much, Emma, for sharing your beautiful vision with all of us!!! I love it.

Happy Family

An answered prayer

Last night, I shared our story about an answered prayer with a friend.

In turn, he shared with me this story about his friend, Mark (paraphrased and all names have been changed):

Mark’s two year old, James, was  suffering from a life-threatening illness. The doctors thought that James might have  cancer. Mark was distraught and prayed to God that he would take on whatever it was that James was dealing with.

Sure enough, James miraculously recovered, and Mark was eventually diagnosed with cancer.  The good news was that it was a treatable form of cancer. Mark underwent treatment and had the cancerous cells removed.

Ten years later, the family is healthy and well.

A potent reminder of the power of prayer. And confirming to me about our own situation about the power of prayer.

We are a praying family, and Moses is on several prayer lists in several churches. Whenever we relate good news about Moses’ health to his Grammie Millie, she is fond of reminding us (so that there is no doubt in anyone’s mind as to the true source of Moses’ healing) that:

“More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.” – Lord Alfred Tennyson

 

Original Medicine

Years ago, during one of my Core Connexion workshops with Eva Vigran (this one of the healing modalities in which I am trained to facilitate), she told us a story.

If you lived in one of the many African tribal cultures, and if you were feeling sick, lost or depressed, you would visit the local shaman.

And the shaman would ask you…

• When was the last time you danced?
• When was the last time you sang?
• When was the last time you told a story?
• When was the last time you sat alone in stillness?

I was reminded of this story during my time spent with the Peruvian shamans last weekend. One of the gifts that they cultivated was being able to heal through music. As their played the flute and sang prayers earnestly to Spirit, I felt my heart open and be healed.

I cried tears of joy while listening to their beautiful music, intimate and beautiful prayers and tributes to Spirit and to nature.

So simple.

A reminder of how simple it can be.

I  feel that as a society, we have lost touch with our creative sides. We don’t dance because “I can’t dance”. We don’t sing because “I can’t sing”. We don’t make music because “I am not a musician”. We don’t tell stories anymore. We don’t sit in silence. We leave it to the musicians and artists to create, and for the most part, we remain disconnected and locked in our left-brained society.

But…  If we can remember and reclaim our creative sides, our intuitive sides and we can give these parts of ourselves expression, we can heal ourselves. It is through expression of our creative sides that we connect with the divine.

And we are remembering.

Our children help us to remember. Because they dance, sing and tell stories. Everyday, they dance!  Everyday, they sing. Everyday, they tell stories. Our children are in constant connection with the divine through their imagination and their passion. This is how Spirit speaks to us.

Our family loves music

In our family, we very much value music. DH actually is a musician, but when we were going through our difficult times, he stopped playing music. He didn’t have it in him to play. Little did he know that if he had played music, it might have been his lifeline through the challenging times. But…  he is playing again. And this very week, a day after I returned from my time with the shamans, he bought a bass, which is HIS instrument. DH was meant to play bass.

All three of us love to sing. I’m not the best singer, but I love to sing. DH sometimes makes light-hearted fun of my off-key singing, but I sing anyway. I love to sing. When I was growing up, my family didn’t sing. I remember going on a roadtrip with a friend’s family. They were a singing family. They all sang to the songs on the radio, and I remember thinking to myself — when I grow up, I want to have a singing family. And now I do!

We all love to dance. When I first met DH, I told him that I was a dancer. Because I am a dancer. I feel that we are all dancers! I am not a classically trained dancer, but my body LOVES to dance. My body was meant to dance, stretch and move. DH told me shyly that he doesn’t dance, which I didn’t buy (since I believe that we are all dancers), and I happily found out later that given the right circumstances, he can be a dancer. And now, in our house, we dance, sing and make music.

While we are making dinner, we often make songs about our day. Silly songs. Songs that are sometimes sang off-key. But we do it anyway.

And we dance and we move and we wiggle our hips as we set the table.

Moses is an amazing dancer! Does that boy have rhythm!

When Moses is sad and upset, we sing him songs. We retell the story of why he is upset in a song, giving verbal acknowledgment of what is going on for him emotionally, and also acknowledging our perspectives as well. We blend all three of our stories into one story, into one song. If he is really upset, he asks us to sing it again and again and again and again until he feels that he has fully expressed has sadness, sorrow and upset and been heard.

Moses has started a new bedtime ritual during which we “play the drums” and make up a song. Sometimes his blankie and stuffed animals join in as well.

Let us create together

All this to say, I think it’s a great idea to dance and sing and tell stories and sit alone in silence. Everyday. As an integrated part of our lives. We don’t need to leave the creating to the musicians and the artists. It’s up to us to bring the music and the song back into our lives.

And if you want to create music with members of your community, you can join a drumming circle, an ecstatic dance circle, or singing circle. I had a beautiful and heart-opening experience at a kirtan (devotional song) led by Amy Thiessen on Thursday. Or even start one up in your community.

How about you?  When was the last time you danced? When was the last time you sang? When was the last time you told a story? When was the last time you sat alone in stillness?

The 5 levels of healing

I found this great article about the 5 levels of healing by Dr. Klinghardt. Healing on the level of the physical body, the energy body, the mental body, the intuitive body and the spiritual body.

Although I was familiar with this concept, I found this article very helpful as I’ve never seen it laid out so clearly. It spoke to why I have been digging so deep for healing for our family. I was heartened by the fact that we have been exploring healing at all aspects of our being: body, energy, mental, intuitive and spiritual.

Dr. Klinghardt has classified the various healing techniques in terms of the level of healing (his list is more detailed than the one that I present below, as I’ve only listed the main modalities that I’ve explored or am familiar with):

1. Physical – exercise, diet, medicine, surgery, chiropractic, physical therapy, aromatherapy;
2. Energy (emotions) - yoga, acupuncture, meditation;
3. Mental (thought, beliefs) - homeopathy, eye movement desensitization and reprogramming [EMDR], (I suspect that emotional freedom technique [EFT] also falls into this category);
4. Intuitive – shamanism, rituals, sound and colour therapy, family constellation therapy, hypnotherapy, Jungian psychotherapy; and
5. Spiritual – our own connection with the divine through true meditation, chanting, prayer, self-healing.

Interestingly, Dr. Klinghardt noted that that healing impulses created on a higher level can penetrate downward, but not upwards. For example, taking a vitamin can help heal the physical body, but not the intuitive body. A healing intervention must be on the level where the illness was created or one of the higher levels. This is why traditional medicine is generally not helpful in addressing the root cause of disease — because it is addressing problems solely at the level of the physical body. This is also why the Heilkunst (homeopathic) healing has been so effective.

This article has also helped me to understand where my work as a yoga instructor, energy healer, and (apprencticing) shamanic practitioner falls – essentially working at the energy and intuitive body levels.

I love Dr. Klinghardt’s conclusions for leading a healthy lifestyle:

• Put as much effort as possible into healing your own family. Don’t rest until there is love and respect between everybody in your generation and the two generations before you. The “family” includes children who have died early, aborted children, husbands who were excluded after a divorce, mothers who died in childbirth and uncles who died in a war. The healing involves relating and communicating to everybody who is alive, and holding a loving memory of those who are gone.

• Pump as much energy as possible into the lower three levels: eat right, sleep right, exercise and take your vitamins. Nurture your body-electric with massage, acupuncture, neural therapy, lying down by a waterfall, listening to good music and doing your yoga stretches. See a therapist to work through confusion and unresolved conflicts on the mental level.

• Turn inward to investigate the 5^th level. Don’t follow anyone’s advice. Create time and space to be alone. You need all of you, undistracted, to do this.

It makes so much sense to me and is essentially what we’ve been trying to do as a family.

Puppy Prescription

Earlier this week, I wrote about how I thought Moses may have Asperger’s Syndrome, and Alexis asked some great questions. 

Hi Janice ~ I guess my question for you is how would a diagnosis help you better understand your son? I mean, theoretically, it could answer certain questions about why he behaves in certain ways, if he really has AS, but you are already very tuned in to your child. No one understands him better than you do.

How do you think Moses would benefit from a diagnosis? Isn’t he already being respected for who he is? Aren’t you already being present with him and trusting your intuition as to what to do to best support and nurture him exactly as he is?

Scary stuff about MMR. Did you sense this about him before the shots?

Hugs,
Alexis

These are great questions that Alexis asked. Ones that I knew would be asked by some readers. I’m going to answer them in the same mindset as when I wrote that post (because actually, some of my mindset has changed since then — thankfully).

But first… Why would a diagnosis help? I thought it would help me to connect with other parents who are having similar experience with their children. And, also connect me to other resources / support groups / parenting ideas. I was feeling alone and challenged re: parenting Moses (e.g., losing patience, etc.). I felt like I had no more reserve left in me. We were trying to do what we could to replenish ourselves (we actually just came back from a week’s vacation away), but we returned more drained than when we left.

Isn’t he already being respected for who he is? Aren’t you already being present with him and trusting your intuition as to what to do to best support and nurture him exactly as he is?    I’d love to say that the answer is “yes” to both of these questions. And, of course, the problem is probably in the fact that my answer is “no” to these questions. My husband and I were really struggling. We were finding that we were at our wits ends with the  constant power struggles and tantrums every single time we change him and brush his teeth. (Alexis discusses power struggles here, so I know that we’re not alone in this one). On most mornings, it was taking all of my energy, patience and sanity just getting Moses fed, changed and teeth-brushed. I was losing confidence in my abilities as a parent.

How do I feel today? Something actually has changed in the family dynamic over the last couple of days, which I attribute to one of two things: 1) we got a puppy, and 2) I’ve started using the Emotional Freedom Technique (which, if you don’t know what it is, you can find out about how to do it yourself here).

1) We got a puppy. I consulted with yet another intuitive (another shaman) and she ”felt that a dog in the house would help the energy in our home”. My husband has always wanted a dog and about a week before the shaman mentioned this to me, we had considered adopting a dog, so it felt like everything was in alignment for us getting a puppy.

We’re thinking that Moses is enjoying having the puppy in the house, and even though I’m spending a lot of energy training the puppy and cleaning up after her, Moses is happier, which means I’m happier. The tantrums in the last 5 days have been less frequent and less dramatic. And, he has even let us brush his teeth without a fuss over the last couple of days (which had only previously happened less than a handful of times before).

2) I started using the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), which is a technique that I used on myself a couple of years ago and had found that it helped release emotional charges on issues, but had gotten out of the habit of using. When I was at my emotional wits’ end a few days ago, I started using this technique and since then I’ve felt more centred, at peace, grounded. After the first night of using the technique, I actually had a dream that Moses and my emotional charges were no longer “plugging into each other” because they had been diffused.

I think a lot of what was happenning was that my “emotional charge” was affected Moses’ emotions and we both were setting each other off. I knew that was happenning, but I didn’t know how to “diffuse the charge”.  That’s where EFT came into help.

Do I still think Moses has AS?

Currently, I’ve actually talked myself out of it. I mentioned it to Moses’ naturopath and she doesn’t think that he fits the AS profile.

A time of growth

It feels like a time of growth for me and my family. We have hit a ceiling and are pushing through something.

I had a session with a reiki / shaman healer a couple of days ago that rocked my core.

I have been dealing for a long time with issues surrounding trauma related to my relationship with my biological dad. For the last 10 years, I have been working at clearing it. It feels as though I am always clearing it.

I felt as though I had made real progress with it in the spring. I wrote about a related healing dream here. I felt that I had put it to bed. That I was healed.

But, it’s up again. And the energy is such that it affects my sensitive son. It shows up in his behaviour, in his health, etc.

I know that it’s an incredibly healing time on the planet. Everything is up to be healed. I’m sure that I’m just accessing another layer of it. I’m amazed at how many layers there are to it.

We are still in the middle of it as I write, but I know that it’s up for healing. And for that I am thankful. I trust in the process.

Miracles abound

Something is shifting…  On Friday, my son got retested for allergies (pricktest) and EVERYTHING that they tested for came back negative (i.e., no allergies) — including many things that he had previously tested for as positive.  They didn’t test for a few things for which his blood work (RAST test)  had came back strongly positive (milk, cats, fish and wheat), but everything else came back negative (and they tested him for about 15 things, including mixed nuts and eggs — things that he was reactive to in the past)…  I’m still in shock about it!  We’re slowly going to reintroduce some of the foods that came back negative in a systematic way to see how he reacts when he ingests the food.  
 
It’s a bit odd because 8 weeks ago, they did blood work and all of the things that they tested for came back strongly positive, but now everything is coming back negative.  (Maybe the blood was showing the historic signs of allergies and the prick test is showing that currently, his system is no longer as sensitive?)

In any case, I am still in a state of shock, and also complete awe.

They are actually going to get him to do an oral challenge of peanuts in the hospital next month. The truth is that I have a lot of calm about it, so I feel as though everything is going to be okay.

We are now going to be working closely with a dietician to start to systematically reintroduce other foods back into his diet. We’re starting with rice this week.

I am in utter awe about it all. It feels like a big HUGE MIRACLE. I am utterly thankful.

The weeks preceding this news had been difficult for me for a number of reasons that I won’t mention here because I don’t want to energize it, but I trust that everything will work out / is working out.

I will continue to keep you posted on how this is unfolding for us.

Specialists update

We’ve been busy of the last couple of months visiting a multitude of specialists. 

It’s been difficult at times because the medical doctors are quick to want to prescribe medications (including singulair, ventolin, flovent, a corticosteroid nasal spray) in addition to the daily antihistamine (reactin) he had been on (and has been on on and off). We have been using ventolin on occasion when it appears that he is really struggling to breathe.

When I check into my intuition, I always get “no” to the medications and we haven’t been using them (and my husband who is more open to conventional medicine also would like to keep him off the additional medications). Although I strongly support our decision to minimize medications, I have felt uncomfortable with follow-up visits when I tell the doctors that we are not following their recommendations. Although I’m following my intuition, I have felt judged as a “bad” mom in their eyes (yes, I know this is more of my stuff showing up).

Happily, we are now in a period where we have a break in doctor’s appointments for the next 3 weeks. Heaven. We can just do our thing in peace.

We had an appointment with a naturopath this week. This naturopath said exactly what I needed to hear — that we were doing the best possible thing for our son (i.e., consulting with the medical doctors and weighing out their suggestions based on our intuition). The medications that have all been prescribed simply surpress symptoms, but don’t get to the root of what’s causing the problem. And, if we supress symptoms of the skin, it tends to exacerbate the problem of the lungs and vice versa. And, the truth is that we’ve seen that ourselves — when we started to use the hydrocortisone cream on our son’s skin, he started to have difficulty breathing.

We’ve been trying to figure out what’s enflaming my son’s system and minimizing his contact with those things. The difficult part is that my son is sensitive to most things. Approx. 30 different things, including eggs, gluten, dairy, soy, nuts, preservatives, pesticides, rice, and the list goes on. He has had a history of 3 anaphyatic reactions. In two of those cases, we have no idea what it was that he reacted to (which was very scary). He was hospitalized another time for four days due to internal bleeding from accidental ingestion of eggs.

On the positive side of things, the naturopath has noticed that since the last 6 weeks, his eczema is less enflamed and his wheezing is less “wet”.

On another positive side, our session with the “energetic chiropractor” yesterday also went well. She said that our bodies are the “softest” it’s been since she started treating us in January. I take this as a very good sign as during my first session with her, she was able to pick up on the energetic imprint from my traumatic childhood.  She said that the more I’m able to clear my “stuff”, the less symptomatic my son will be. Since he’s so sensitive, he could feel the trauma that I’ve been carrying and he has been attempting to clear it from his body (and it’s been showing up as inflammation in his body).

I’d been working on clearing the effects of my childhood over the last 10 years (through fasts, yoga, meditation, journalling, following spiritual teachings, spiritual workshops, EFT, therapeutic movement, 2 year core connexion training, having a spiritual life coach for five years, consulting with shamans, attending sweat lodges, energetic healings, reiki sessions, reiki attunements, ceremony, women’s circles, body talk, body work, affirmations, prayer, forgiveness, chakra clearings, smudging), so at the time I was dismayed to hear that I was still carrying the charge. As I mentioned here, I started working on releasing the root of this imprint with the help of a shaman, and have been seeing the effects of the work that was done over the last few weeks. The recent session with the “energetic chiropractor” is just more confirmation that things are shifting and releasing. I’m very thankful.

Intergenerational Healing

Over the last couple of months, I had the privilege to experience an intergenerational healing from a shaman who was trained with the Four Winds Society.

It is not an overstatement to say that as a result of the healing:

• My son’s eczema has  mostly cleared up.  It’s cleared up enough that we are getting comments about it and we’ve stopped giving him his nightly antihistamine.
• We’ve been able to start re-introducing foods that were previously off limits (like chicken).
• I am feeling less like a ”bad”  mom.
• I healed my relationship with my mostly estranged dad who had a history of alcoholism and abuse.
• I have seen changes in my mother, my step-father and my brother’s behaviour.
• And countless other miracles…