In 1993 I began my journey into Macrobiotics to heal from Chronic Fatigue Sydnrome that was a byproduct of Dengue Fever that I contracted in India. It was a slow, steady re-direction towards health with ups and downs along the way. I committed to this as my way of healing and I had trust that one day I would get there. I believed in the power of food to change the body/mind and stayed with that.

In a nutshell, after teaching macrobiotics/wholefoods cooking for over a decade, I discovered a breast cancer. The shock and fear was enormous. As I hadn’t always been “perfect” when it came to food choices, I felt there was hope and I opted only for a lumpectomy, no further treatment or medication. I went diligently on the “real” macrobiotic healing diet, not my own more relaxed version. Deep down, I really believed that the food was the sole cause. Whew, what a wake up call since then!

A year later I found a tiny little hard lump which in an office visit to the surgeon was taken out to reveal the same cancer cells. I don’t like to call it a recurrence, as I believe it was always there. The fear had never left me in spite of my impeccable diet. I was constantly looking, searching for what remained. (Interesting metaphor looking back now). For those of you who have seen the Secret you can imagine the law of attraction working here just waiting for it to show it’s face again. So in another wave of terror, I went to a friend’s house looking for one of Ian Gawler’s books. Instead The Journey by Brandon Bays popped out at me. I had also had a dream about a friend who is an accredited Journey Therapist in Perth and this seemed like a double synchronistic whammy. So I took the book home and read it in 2 days.

The book just spoke to me. It deals with her own story of healing a basketball-sized tumour without any intervention and the link between stored memories in the cells, cell receptors, DNA etc. I understood how incomplete Significant Emotional Experiences could store in the body and potentially lead to illness. There is also a strong spiritual component to the Journey work that spoke to me where the process actually takes place in a genuine experience of source – call it love, peace, joy, wisdom, Self as opposed to happening on the level of mind where much of psychology dwells.

This connection with the Source energy, our true Self, has been shown to be the one common link in people who have had spontaneous healings. For most of us a slower, gradual cellular healing is more common. Did you know that one year from now there will not be one cell in the body that is here today? The eye cells for example only take 3-4 days to regenerate. So how do we interrupt the process of passing down the cellular memory to the next generation of cells so that a new and healthy cell takes its place? The importance of emptying out the stored emotional pain completely, which naturally leads to forgiveness, is what allows the previously closed cell receptors to open leading to a possible renewal of health. Now I am putting this in a big nutshell just to give a hint as to what journeywork entails.

I just wanted to share with you the 2nd leg of my personal journey towards healing because in the last year I have had the privilege of having over 25 journey processes and I have become so radiantly healthy and alive, I just cannot believe each day how blessed I feel. Both my partner and I decided to do the Practitioner Training program, which entailed 3 trips to the east coast over the last 7 months. A year ago you wouldn’t have even caught me going near an airport for fear of the complications involved in travel while healing.

I have faced my deepest, darkest fears, which certainly includes the fear of death. I have faced long-standing anger, rage, sorrow, grief, disappointments, hurts, holding-ons, letting go’s…etc. I have learned that I don’t have to be afraid of emotions. They really do come and go and something remains. It has just blown my mind as to how the emptying out and forgiveness has given me back bit-by-bit my energy, my joy and my love of life. (And I thought I was doing great just on the wholefoods!)

Had I not had this huge wake-up call to address this area of healing in my own life, I would have gone along certainly enjoying life (albeit with fear as a constant companion) but not with such a peace and joy that is here today. I know that challenges continue to come and go, and I feel a willingness to face them head-on as they really are the keys to what areas in life remain to be healed.

I do feel a certain responsibility to let people know how important this side of the healing story is. I had many people telling me before it’s not just the food, but I didn’t really believe them. I would have to say now that the combination of genuinely changing one’s diet towards whole, organic, unprocessed foods applying the macrobiotic principles of balance as well as meeting one’s deepest fears is a great recipe. Will I live another 40 years? I don’t know but what I do know is that each day I wake up feeling gratitude beyond belief for being here and what this day holds. There is excitement to live this day, this moment and welcome everything that shows up. And ultimately there is no greater blessing in a human body (in my opinion) then making contact with that which we are and in finding the true Self we find out that we really are love, we are joy, we are acceptance and forgiveness and there is great peace in that.