Some Cool Stories of Healing
In the past few years I've had some pretty neat experiences within my healing work. I thought I should write down a few of the ones that stand out most strong in my memory...
This isn't so much a story specifically, but something worth mentioning I think. The "sparks" I'd see and the tingling I'd feel doing some of the quieter work just sorta began happening somewhere around 2004 I guess. I really don't remember. Some clients would confirm the tingling feelings/buzzing like sensation of vibration, others wouldn't. I figured it was energy releasing and healing taking place and I was comfortable with that. The sparks I didn't know what to make of- I kind of thought maybe it was energy shifting or releasing, but I didn't know. I mentioned the "sparks" to my friend & teacher Janet back in 2009 during a Theta Healing class and she said that they were Angels, right off the bat. Then she said "wait a minute" and got quiet, closed her eyes and communicated like she does when she's connected w/ God, opened her eyes again and said more clearly "Yup. It's Angels". :) I thought that was pretty cool! I had no idea I was working w/ anyone! I love seeing sparks, I think it's awesome. I see them randomly sometimes out of nowhere, other times when deep and quiet in a session I'll see them as well. They aren't always white, sometimes they're pink or blue. Different colors mean different Angels. I'm still sorta new at it, but I'm always excited to see it even if I don't always know exactly who I'm spotting- I feel supported and know I'm not alone! :)
After the first Theta Healing class I was WAY opened up and learned to trust in what I "got" and to believe in what I "saw". Part of the Theta Work is to connect in with the person and witness the change that they want to happen (psychically). Immediately after taking the class, I think it was a Monday morning, Gregory (my then 4 year old) somehow stepped on a teeny shard of glass. He was crying and freaking out, I looked at the bottom of his foot and all I saw was a teeny dot of blood and could tell it was a glass like splinter in his foot. My husband ran off to get tweezers and bandaids and I held Gregory's foot in my hand and did the command for the piece to come out now and psychically witnessed it (while my hands are over his foot and my eyes are closed). I swear to you, when I opened my eyes that teeny shard was sticking RIGHT OUT of his foot, barely in it all. Greg returned and I pulled out the last bit of it! Of course this happened when the skeptic husband was out of the room! He didn't see it, so he doesn't believe it! But I did, and I do! That splinter was flush w/ his foot, even w/ tweezers we'd have had to squeeze and pull, there was nothing to grab-- but the work I did on him had it out! I was amazed and blown away! I knew it happened!
By the next week I did a session over the phone w/ my sister in law. I didn't know the root of her problem, we were making our way there w/ the belief work. At one point both of us were intensely quiet and I kept hearing in my head "I'm with you. I'm with you. I'm with you". I told her, "hey ___, God wants me to tell you that he's with you" and I repeated what I heard in my head. She like gasped. It was all a very cool moment for her... At this quiet space she was reliving a moment in her past where she was at rock bottom in a closet and questioning of God was real and if he was with her. What makes this even cooler is that while on the phone w/ me she wanted to assure that her kids wouldn't wake up so she closed herself in her current closet to muffle her conversation. It was all a very full circle kind of moment. She told me this and we both cried. It was so cool. Here she is now back in a closet; remembering her low point years earlier while closed in a closet contemplating if God was with her. And God is here now, telling her through me that yes, he is with her. We were blown away. This is one of my favorite stories.
I gotta get back to this again in a bit...... time to run off to Karate! Andrew got his Orange Belt yesterday!! :)
This isn't so much a story specifically, but something worth mentioning I think. The "sparks" I'd see and the tingling I'd feel doing some of the quieter work just sorta began happening somewhere around 2004 I guess. I really don't remember. Some clients would confirm the tingling feelings/buzzing like sensation of vibration, others wouldn't. I figured it was energy releasing and healing taking place and I was comfortable with that. The sparks I didn't know what to make of- I kind of thought maybe it was energy shifting or releasing, but I didn't know. I mentioned the "sparks" to my friend & teacher Janet back in 2009 during a Theta Healing class and she said that they were Angels, right off the bat. Then she said "wait a minute" and got quiet, closed her eyes and communicated like she does when she's connected w/ God, opened her eyes again and said more clearly "Yup. It's Angels". :) I thought that was pretty cool! I had no idea I was working w/ anyone! I love seeing sparks, I think it's awesome. I see them randomly sometimes out of nowhere, other times when deep and quiet in a session I'll see them as well. They aren't always white, sometimes they're pink or blue. Different colors mean different Angels. I'm still sorta new at it, but I'm always excited to see it even if I don't always know exactly who I'm spotting- I feel supported and know I'm not alone! :)
After the first Theta Healing class I was WAY opened up and learned to trust in what I "got" and to believe in what I "saw". Part of the Theta Work is to connect in with the person and witness the change that they want to happen (psychically). Immediately after taking the class, I think it was a Monday morning, Gregory (my then 4 year old) somehow stepped on a teeny shard of glass. He was crying and freaking out, I looked at the bottom of his foot and all I saw was a teeny dot of blood and could tell it was a glass like splinter in his foot. My husband ran off to get tweezers and bandaids and I held Gregory's foot in my hand and did the command for the piece to come out now and psychically witnessed it (while my hands are over his foot and my eyes are closed). I swear to you, when I opened my eyes that teeny shard was sticking RIGHT OUT of his foot, barely in it all. Greg returned and I pulled out the last bit of it! Of course this happened when the skeptic husband was out of the room! He didn't see it, so he doesn't believe it! But I did, and I do! That splinter was flush w/ his foot, even w/ tweezers we'd have had to squeeze and pull, there was nothing to grab-- but the work I did on him had it out! I was amazed and blown away! I knew it happened!
By the next week I did a session over the phone w/ my sister in law. I didn't know the root of her problem, we were making our way there w/ the belief work. At one point both of us were intensely quiet and I kept hearing in my head "I'm with you. I'm with you. I'm with you". I told her, "hey ___, God wants me to tell you that he's with you" and I repeated what I heard in my head. She like gasped. It was all a very cool moment for her... At this quiet space she was reliving a moment in her past where she was at rock bottom in a closet and questioning of God was real and if he was with her. What makes this even cooler is that while on the phone w/ me she wanted to assure that her kids wouldn't wake up so she closed herself in her current closet to muffle her conversation. It was all a very full circle kind of moment. She told me this and we both cried. It was so cool. Here she is now back in a closet; remembering her low point years earlier while closed in a closet contemplating if God was with her. And God is here now, telling her through me that yes, he is with her. We were blown away. This is one of my favorite stories.
I gotta get back to this again in a bit...... time to run off to Karate! Andrew got his Orange Belt yesterday!! :)
Kid Birthdays
Andrew will be 4 next week and I'm excited about celebrating his birthday. I started thinking about it, and apparently I must like doing creative stuff because I always find myself running around adding little details to make my guys' birthdays extra special. I remember icing Gregory's cake when he was one- I was so stressed about it, but still took pride in my homemade cake and icing. It was a lesson learned though, to not leave making the icing and then icing the cake in the last hour before the party. It was warm out and it was a little too soft. I thought I had it all under control until then!
The more creative ventures didn't take place until Gregory turned 3. I decided I wanted to hand decorate his cake with characters from his favorite TV show, Peep. I was so proud of myself. A few months later I had decorated all the cookies for my best friend's baby shower. Again, I got out the piping bag and worked really hard, but I enjoyed it so much. People think I'm crazy for doing this, but really- it's the only excuse I get to play with this stuff! I do have a passion for it, so I seize the opportunity. :)
On Gregory's 4th birthday I kept it pretty simple, but more notable was the "pin the Scooby Snack into Scooby's mouth".
Andrew's 1st was pretty simple as well...
When Andrew turned 2 he was very much into a show called "Yo Gabba Gabba". I came across an idea somewhere online for a Plex cake (the yellow robot). It was fun to make, very simple and he totally loved it! It was just 4 layers of circle cake stacked w/ a donut and a cereal straw for the antenna (with a red lollipop for the glowing light on top of the antenna). It definitely was a hit.
When Gregory turned 5 he had a birthday party for friends at school. His birthday is right near Halloween so we did Halloween cupcakes. I went all out, even making my own chocolate cookies to crumb to resemble dirt. I had a few different varieties of Halloween cupcakes; gummy worms coming out of dirt, a cat face with ears cut from the thin chocolate cookies and spiders. My camera wasn't very good then and the only shot of them I got is blurry. :( For his family party I made a basic cake and decorated it with the "Ghostbusters" logo since that was what he was into at the time.
Andrew's 3rd birthday he really wanted a Captain Hook Cake. I was too daunted to take that on and somehow convinced him to let me do a SpongeBob and Patrick cake. I enjoy the challenge of hand-icing a cake, usually I sketch out a picture ahead of time to practice. (That's why I canned the Cap'n Hook idea, I had too hard of a time with it!)
When Gregory turned 6 he had another friend party- this time almost the entire class came (as opposed to the previous year when only FOUR came! -- almost no one RSVP'd and that was super annoying!). We planned out a few games and did Halloween cupcakes again. This year I didn't go all out, just did some spiders and shoved some candy corns into the icing, we made and iced some Halloween cookies as well because we just love them so and they're fun to do! Our favorite creative element we brought to the party was our pinata. Greg and I made it from scratch and it turned out awesome- it was a Black Halloween Cat and it looked so good! For Gregory's family party we did a "Litterbox Cake"- which was super easy and yummy. Most of the adults were too grossed out to try it though since it looked too realistic! It's just cake and cookies crumbled with pudding mixed in and tootsie rolls on top as well as buried within! Definitely gross looking!!
Now with Andrew's 4th birthday quickly approaching, the pressure's on! I already finished the "pin the lightsaber to Darth Vader" activity (actually, all I've finished is Darth Vader himself, lightsabers are next). I got some "Star Wars" cookie cutters and am excited to use them! For his cupcakes at the friend party, it'll just be simple. I may end up shoving a lego candy thing into the icing to make it fit the Star Wars/Batman Lego theme. The cupcake papers are Batman. Greg and I are thinking of making a "Death Star" pinata, we'll have to begin that SOON. And as for the cake, I think I'll just do a regular 9x13 cake and cut the edges into the shape of Boba Fett's (or Jengo Fett's) helmet. I'll ice it to resemble the helmet. I really am looking forward to it all! Even though I get a little stressed out, it's fine because I truly enjoy doing it! :)
The more creative ventures didn't take place until Gregory turned 3. I decided I wanted to hand decorate his cake with characters from his favorite TV show, Peep. I was so proud of myself. A few months later I had decorated all the cookies for my best friend's baby shower. Again, I got out the piping bag and worked really hard, but I enjoyed it so much. People think I'm crazy for doing this, but really- it's the only excuse I get to play with this stuff! I do have a passion for it, so I seize the opportunity. :)
On Gregory's 4th birthday I kept it pretty simple, but more notable was the "pin the Scooby Snack into Scooby's mouth".
Andrew's 1st was pretty simple as well...
When Andrew turned 2 he was very much into a show called "Yo Gabba Gabba". I came across an idea somewhere online for a Plex cake (the yellow robot). It was fun to make, very simple and he totally loved it! It was just 4 layers of circle cake stacked w/ a donut and a cereal straw for the antenna (with a red lollipop for the glowing light on top of the antenna). It definitely was a hit.
When Gregory turned 5 he had a birthday party for friends at school. His birthday is right near Halloween so we did Halloween cupcakes. I went all out, even making my own chocolate cookies to crumb to resemble dirt. I had a few different varieties of Halloween cupcakes; gummy worms coming out of dirt, a cat face with ears cut from the thin chocolate cookies and spiders. My camera wasn't very good then and the only shot of them I got is blurry. :( For his family party I made a basic cake and decorated it with the "Ghostbusters" logo since that was what he was into at the time.
Andrew's 3rd birthday he really wanted a Captain Hook Cake. I was too daunted to take that on and somehow convinced him to let me do a SpongeBob and Patrick cake. I enjoy the challenge of hand-icing a cake, usually I sketch out a picture ahead of time to practice. (That's why I canned the Cap'n Hook idea, I had too hard of a time with it!)
When Gregory turned 6 he had another friend party- this time almost the entire class came (as opposed to the previous year when only FOUR came! -- almost no one RSVP'd and that was super annoying!). We planned out a few games and did Halloween cupcakes again. This year I didn't go all out, just did some spiders and shoved some candy corns into the icing, we made and iced some Halloween cookies as well because we just love them so and they're fun to do! Our favorite creative element we brought to the party was our pinata. Greg and I made it from scratch and it turned out awesome- it was a Black Halloween Cat and it looked so good! For Gregory's family party we did a "Litterbox Cake"- which was super easy and yummy. Most of the adults were too grossed out to try it though since it looked too realistic! It's just cake and cookies crumbled with pudding mixed in and tootsie rolls on top as well as buried within! Definitely gross looking!!
Now with Andrew's 4th birthday quickly approaching, the pressure's on! I already finished the "pin the lightsaber to Darth Vader" activity (actually, all I've finished is Darth Vader himself, lightsabers are next). I got some "Star Wars" cookie cutters and am excited to use them! For his cupcakes at the friend party, it'll just be simple. I may end up shoving a lego candy thing into the icing to make it fit the Star Wars/Batman Lego theme. The cupcake papers are Batman. Greg and I are thinking of making a "Death Star" pinata, we'll have to begin that SOON. And as for the cake, I think I'll just do a regular 9x13 cake and cut the edges into the shape of Boba Fett's (or Jengo Fett's) helmet. I'll ice it to resemble the helmet. I really am looking forward to it all! Even though I get a little stressed out, it's fine because I truly enjoy doing it! :)
My Path as a Healer (Part 2)
So, somewhere around Christmastime in 2008 I decided that I wanted to develop my psychic intuitive healing abilities. It wasn't prompted by much, I just knew that that's the direction I wanted to go in and that time was now. I remember kind of just declaring it to my Dad, Mom and sister one night while I was up north visiting for Christmastime. I just blurted it out and kinda laughed because I knew how crazy or weird it sounded. I said "I want to develop my psychic and intuitive healing abilities!" They were like "... okay..." and did their best not to be like "WHAT?!" I just said I knew that I wanted to do it, but I had no idea how. Wouldn't ya know it, like a week later I got an email from a friend, Janet Hensenne-Rosiak (former classmate in the CranioSacral I & II classes) promoting her workshop for Theta Healing. All the little bulleted things on what the class offered were right in line with what I said I wanted to learn more about and expand on! I was like "well, okay. Guess I'm taking this class!" I took it just a few weeks later and it was very much life altering. After some clearing exercises in the first or second day, my head literally felt wobbly, (it was my crown chakra opening) and I had some awesome experiences within the three day workshop.
I went on to take a few more of the Theta classes and continued to have neat experiences, both in the classroom and outside of it- perhaps on a separate post I will write them down. I was a changed person and how I viewed the world was changing as well. I read "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle and that continues to have a lasting impact. A whole new way of experiencing the world was opening up to me and I was and continue to be, excited about it.
Last year, out of nowhere ... ;) haha, I got the thought "I should take Reiki". Meanwhile, people have told me for forever that I'd like Reiki and I'd be good at it. I didn't think it was necessary, but what convinced me was that Theta Healing sounded kinda weird, and not a lot of people have heard of it and Reiki was at least a word/modality people have heard of and were kind of familiar with. I didn't think too hard about it, went onto Janet's website and, of course, she was teaching a Reiki class like the next week. So I took it. I didn't feel any major shift, I thought it was cool- but also kinda thought I knew all this already. But I guess in the initiation, something was opened up in me because not too long after that I started "getting" Spirits during my massage/energywork sessions. Deceased loved ones of my clients began showing up. Very faintly, but obviously there. I am still pretty new to this, I just kind of sense them and maybe get a word or two from them but I'm not communicating with them as much as just telling the person about their loved one's presence. I am sure that in time this will develop further, but I think it's pretty awesome for what it is! :)
I gotta turn off Dora and make some cookies with Andrew... that's it for now! :)
I went on to take a few more of the Theta classes and continued to have neat experiences, both in the classroom and outside of it- perhaps on a separate post I will write them down. I was a changed person and how I viewed the world was changing as well. I read "A New Earth" by Eckhart Tolle and that continues to have a lasting impact. A whole new way of experiencing the world was opening up to me and I was and continue to be, excited about it.
Last year, out of nowhere ... ;) haha, I got the thought "I should take Reiki". Meanwhile, people have told me for forever that I'd like Reiki and I'd be good at it. I didn't think it was necessary, but what convinced me was that Theta Healing sounded kinda weird, and not a lot of people have heard of it and Reiki was at least a word/modality people have heard of and were kind of familiar with. I didn't think too hard about it, went onto Janet's website and, of course, she was teaching a Reiki class like the next week. So I took it. I didn't feel any major shift, I thought it was cool- but also kinda thought I knew all this already. But I guess in the initiation, something was opened up in me because not too long after that I started "getting" Spirits during my massage/energywork sessions. Deceased loved ones of my clients began showing up. Very faintly, but obviously there. I am still pretty new to this, I just kind of sense them and maybe get a word or two from them but I'm not communicating with them as much as just telling the person about their loved one's presence. I am sure that in time this will develop further, but I think it's pretty awesome for what it is! :)
I gotta turn off Dora and make some cookies with Andrew... that's it for now! :)
Day Trip to NYC
Yesterday we went to NYC for the day. We really appreciate the fact that we can do a day trip! Not super close, but close enough! I was so happy when the weather turned out to be so nice, not rainy or cloudy as predicted. It was fun to take pics - my cousin met up with us there and we did a few things. Got cupcakes from a famous bakery then went to a park followed by a subway ride over to the Staten Island Ferry where we took a ride. The kids favorite part though, was feeding pigeons and seagulls their (way overpriced and not very palatable) pretzel. :)
10 Things to Know About Me
1. I'm married and have two boys
2. I practice Massage and Energy Work
3. I consider myself pretty Spiritual
4. I'm super honest, can't be fake or lie.
5. I'm from North Jersey and miss it up there (at times)
6. I don't care if my house is messy with kids' toys
7. I really enjoy & appreciate photography
8. I love to bake, wish I could more often but caloric intake prevents me
9. I come from a big family and I love all of us so much. :)
10. I am Intuitive and Psychic (and a bit of a novice Medium). All of this is still kinda new to me and I'm excited about expanding it :)
2. I practice Massage and Energy Work
3. I consider myself pretty Spiritual
4. I'm super honest, can't be fake or lie.
5. I'm from North Jersey and miss it up there (at times)
6. I don't care if my house is messy with kids' toys
7. I really enjoy & appreciate photography
8. I love to bake, wish I could more often but caloric intake prevents me
9. I come from a big family and I love all of us so much. :)
10. I am Intuitive and Psychic (and a bit of a novice Medium). All of this is still kinda new to me and I'm excited about expanding it :)
My Path as a Healer (part 1)
So I'm 32 now, turning 33 in a few months... I first learned I liked and was good at giving massage when I was 16. That's half my life ago! I went from giving out hand massages and shoulder rubs to my classmates in high school, to using it as a social crutch during parties in college. I decided that I wanted to go to massage school when I was 19 but my parents said "No, you have to finish college first!" So I did (and in the meanwhile, met my husband, Greg!). I began attending Healing Hands Institute for Massage Therapy just days before my graduation at Rutgers!
I definitely fell in love with massage even more once I went to school - I really felt like I found my calling. I graduated massage school in December of 2000 and was already working regularly in two different places. I continued working full time doing massage, but quickly realized the toll it could take on my body. I had to cut it back to part time and began working in an office as a receptionist (which I HATED! It assured me that Healing Work was the path for me b/c the rigid office environment definitely wasn't for me... but I needed health insurance!). In May of 2001 Greg and I got engaged and got married in October of 2002. I knew that there was more out there for me in the healing world and massage wasn't going to be the ONLY thing for me. I just didn't know where my path would take me.
Shortly after our wedding in 2002 my mother fell severely ill with an autoimmune disease (Acute Transverse Myelitis). In the despair that followed, I knew I REALLY wanted to help her but didn't know how. It was a very scary and helpless time. At this time, I received a few signs to pursue "CranioSacral" Therapy- a gentle modality that manipulates the spinal fluid and really relaxes the body and assists in its ability to heal itself. I took that course in March of 2003 and it was heavily influential in my future. The work itself is very gentle and subtle, and because of this class I learned (even more than before) to trust in my intuition and to go where I was being guided with my work. I would integrate this work into my massages and people would often ask me "How do you know where to go!?" and I'd always say "I don't know, my hands know!" It wasn't something that I was deducing through a thought process, I just went where I went because it felt like that was where I was supposed to go.
I took a second CranioSacral course and was quickly realizing how badly I wanted to have a baby! So parenting and babyhood took center stage for me the next few years... I had Gre
gory in November of 2004 and then Andrew in March of 2007. I took "SomatoEmotional Release" (another main course in the basic CranioSacral work) while I was pregnant with Andrew and there I was opened up even more to the mysterious, unknown and unprovable (so far) work and it piqued my curiosity. Later on stuff I encountered in that class would come up, but not for a couple of years. Babies and toddlers were the only language I spoke until Andrew was about 2. The next part of my Healing Work story will have to wait till next time. I need to go catch my 20 minute afternoon nap while Andrew is watching his kid show - his "rest time". :)
I definitely fell in love with massage even more once I went to school - I really felt like I found my calling. I graduated massage school in December of 2000 and was already working regularly in two different places. I continued working full time doing massage, but quickly realized the toll it could take on my body. I had to cut it back to part time and began working in an office as a receptionist (which I HATED! It assured me that Healing Work was the path for me b/c the rigid office environment definitely wasn't for me... but I needed health insurance!). In May of 2001 Greg and I got engaged and got married in October of 2002. I knew that there was more out there for me in the healing world and massage wasn't going to be the ONLY thing for me. I just didn't know where my path would take me.
Shortly after our wedding in 2002 my mother fell severely ill with an autoimmune disease (Acute Transverse Myelitis). In the despair that followed, I knew I REALLY wanted to help her but didn't know how. It was a very scary and helpless time. At this time, I received a few signs to pursue "CranioSacral" Therapy- a gentle modality that manipulates the spinal fluid and really relaxes the body and assists in its ability to heal itself. I took that course in March of 2003 and it was heavily influential in my future. The work itself is very gentle and subtle, and because of this class I learned (even more than before) to trust in my intuition and to go where I was being guided with my work. I would integrate this work into my massages and people would often ask me "How do you know where to go!?" and I'd always say "I don't know, my hands know!" It wasn't something that I was deducing through a thought process, I just went where I went because it felt like that was where I was supposed to go.
I took a second CranioSacral course and was quickly realizing how badly I wanted to have a baby! So parenting and babyhood took center stage for me the next few years... I had Gre
gory in November of 2004 and then Andrew in March of 2007. I took "SomatoEmotional Release" (another main course in the basic CranioSacral work) while I was pregnant with Andrew and there I was opened up even more to the mysterious, unknown and unprovable (so far) work and it piqued my curiosity. Later on stuff I encountered in that class would come up, but not for a couple of years. Babies and toddlers were the only language I spoke until Andrew was about 2. The next part of my Healing Work story will have to wait till next time. I need to go catch my 20 minute afternoon nap while Andrew is watching his kid show - his "rest time". :)