Now I could do all my energetic work… the muscle was back and I was working it out… building up the strength with face massage and stretches. I found someone to sub for me on 11/18/04 for my yoga class and my boss Diane taught Comedy Traffic School Class for me on Saturday 11/20/04. Then, I had Thanksgiving day off from my weekly Thursday yoga class (11/25/04) and Thanksgiving weekend off from teaching Comedy Traffic School. So that gave me some time off of work to get some real rest that I needed after the exhausting 2 weeks of moving while I was working the whole time all my 4 jobs: a Wellness Consultant, Yoga Teacher, a regularly gigging New Thought Musician, & a Comedy Traffic School Instructor. I was back to teaching my yoga class 12/2/04 - 18 days after the day I lost my smile on 11/15/04. And I taught Comedy Traffic School 12/3/04 at The Comedy Store and another that weekend. So I was back to my busy life with my 4 part-time jobs that I loved. Dr. Center and I saw it as a Bells Palsy stress reaction related to the very difficult 2 weeks of moving - it happened just as I gave the keys to our old home back after cleaning the old appartment for hours. So that was why he did not have me go to a Neurologist - or get an MRI - it just did not seem that serious because it healed so quickly. I was not in ANY pain – only numbness & the "loss of smile".

A year after the accident 4/5/2005 (4 months after the smile loss) I had taken another job as Musical Director of a Spiritual Center... so now I have 5 part time jobs and I was showcasing in LA with my original music as well as the festivals and Cafe gigs - and students from my Comedy Traffic School arranging my husband and I to do some Transparenting workshops from the material developed in the traffic classes about finding a shared vision with your partner, how to attune to your calling, and The Art of Disarming The Bully - within & around us. But over a year after the accident, I was still having so many symptoms I could not work any of them. Finally, I got my first MRI that showed a brainstem bleed and that was when me and my Doctors realized... that my smile loss was A STROKE THAT HEALED IN 9 DAYS!

The next day after it happened I order took HYDERGINE as soon as it came in the mail & kept taking it... then after the accident 4 months later, I had it in the house and went right home to take it... no more than 15 minutes after it happened and have been taking it now for over 5 years. It has only one side effect... it makes us smarter and I was very grateful because I knew that I had to find answers and I did... by guidance and research I was lead to find. And after a life of a creative musician who never had been in the medical field... I was able to read very complex medical studies and understand them.

When the accident first happened I soon came to see I was not going to be teaching yoga... so instead I focused on studying Clinical Hypnotherapy and earned my Masters in it from Huntington Pacific University. I had done tons of visualizations at the end of my classes and even wrote my own music and messages for them and I love doing it. Many of my students said that was a main thing that they came for.... so that is what I focused on. I focused on what I could do - not on what I could not do. Then, I continued my education with a Doctorate in Motivational Psychology also from HPU - that focused me on keeping my spirits up with how I could help others. Then, moving back to Berkeley I connected to an old friend I knew when I lived there and together we made Personal Source Metaphysical Book Store & Wellness Center. I found that it was tremendously helpful to make a sacred space for where I could offer my healing services. And that as I continued to focus on learning all I could that would help me to heal... I continued to heal and that was when HPU gave me an Honorary Doctorate in Integrative Medicine for Contributions in Longevity & Brain Nutrition.. for posting all my findings and the medical studies of other Doctors that I found to support the findings - for others to find - so that others can benefit from all I went through. So I just keep learning all I can that can help and sharing all I find with others who are also seeking answers for conditions that modern medicine has no answers for. I have seen so many miracles in my own healing process and this was after years of Wellness Consulting where there were so many miracle healings so that when it was my turn to be the patient.. I knew how to walk the path. I found that Holistic Healing is Holistic Learning and that is why we need to learn in a healthy way... and continue to learn what will heal us - if we seek to heal from any condition and live in optimal health with a Wellness Lifestyle. All things can improve... with a devoted positive & relaxed focus that allows our soul to grow and then it leads us to our calling which heals us. I believe that if students were offered interdependent support to learn what they love... they woudl love to learn all their lives... and be lead to their calling much sooner in life... and this woudl make them really healthy.

With that understanding, I am now working on my 3rd Doctorate in Holistic Life Counseling from University of Sedona and my dissertation is focused on: Holistic Brain Based Education: Ergonomics, Energetics, & Integrity & Community Building Expressive Arts. And I am working on an artistic documentary cocreating.us that can offer more understandings into this - with experts in the mind/body field and those who see how much a new educational system is needed and how it must be connected to the needs of the whole person. So I continue to learn all the things that helped me to heal the most - so I can offer them to others: Sound Healing, CranioSacral Therapy, & especially Chinese Medicine that was able to help me without knowing the exact thing that was "the problem" - because the difference in non-integrative modern medicine is that they are looking for the problem for the answer... but that is now how the body operates - in absolutes... it is an integrative organism and Chinese Medicine understands that. It treats the whole person... all that was there from heredity, the past injuries or weakness in the body, the current need, and all the implications of that. So an injury or illness has a secondary injuries and possibly a 3rd or 4th... that are from the compensation that the body is making for the injury or illness. And our innate health and heredity play a part too... as well as our state of mind, and circumstances in our life, and the ability to do as many good things as the health condition needs. And our emotions play a huge part in our needs and our healing process. Non-integrative medicine tries to see if it is just what a person is feeling or a specific injury - never seeing how connected the two are. But Chinese Medicine not only understands this... it is build around the fact that emotions in the body allow us to either heal or harm ourselves to varying degrees... yet all is helped by finding peace... so that is always at the center of my practice where I focus on a CoCreative Healing process where I teach my clients through self-muscle testing, understandings on the how the body heals... and all about their own specific needs, by learning to listen to how the body whispers and responding with the most healthy choices for them in that moment.

For what I was given the Honorary Doctorate in Integrative Medicine

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