My Scared Heart

My grandmother grew up poor, Jewish, with divorced parents, during the great depression and the prior pandemic, to graduate high school 2 years early.

I was raised by this grandmother and also grew up poor, Jewish, from divorced parents, but in a rich, Catholic, two-parent household kind of community. In order to overcome what we were born into, we had to overachieve.

I emulated my grandmother to become a very shy, sweet, polite, and respectful young lady. We both enjoyed helping others and putting smiles on everyone’s faces.

As a little girl, I would witness Grandma swallow her pill (a potassium-depleting diuretic for her blood pressure) with a banana and order foods without salt. Years later, in health classes, I would realize the power of foods for medicinal purposes (bananas contain potassium), as well as the ill consequences of foods (i.e., salty foods retain water that raises blood pressure and too much sugar intake may contribute to diabetes.)

Grandma’s siblings all ate poorly and developed diabetes while she ate healthy, stayed slender and never developed diabetes. Since my entire upbringing in the 1970s, I had been studying this more natural approach from both Grandma and what Grandpa—the pharmacist—had taught her. In later years, I confirmed my suspicion that we have the power to actually change genetic expression i.e., family tendency to develop diabetes.

Many years later, a very sweet and special nurse left a lasting impression on me.

I thought ‘OMG! She will never know how many lives she has impacted, and how many of those lives will, in turn, impact more lives.’ That was my “ah-ha” moment; I thought, ‘Nurses like to help people. I like to help people. Like her, I want to impact many lives that, in turn, impact many more lives! My passion to help others will create, not a mere rippling effect, but a massive tidal wave of people helping people, each putting smiles on even more faces.’ This has led me toward a life-long career in nursing. Learning from Grandma, I wanted to emphasize a more natural approach that actually attacks the root cause.

Eventually, doctors left my grandma with no good treatment plan to ever walk again. She looked up to me, the new nurse, and asked, “Do you think I will ever walk again?” I was not used to this role reversal. I knew that to get her walking again, I needed to find and attack the root cause. Also, our thoughts control our actions that dictate our results. So, I gave her the belief that she would walk again and said, “Yes! You will walk again!” With belief, a vision, consistent daily action (stretching and strengthening exercises), and perseverance, she walked again, with no assistant, walker or even a cane!

By age 26, I earned five college degrees, four nursing licenses, two Nurse Practitioner (NP) licenses, a national Board Certification and a perfect 4.0 GPA with my master’s degree. I’ve now been a RN (Registered Nurse) for 30 years and nationally board-certified NP who is dual licensed as both an Adult and Child Health NP for three decades.

In my later years, my vital organ, my Sacred Heart, was failing, and the specialists left me feeling abandoned, helpless and hopeless. But I had belief that I could overcome this, attacked the root cause, and helped heal myself holistically without meds. I went from heart failure to healing myself and writing about it in what became my #1 International Best-Selling book Overcoming Life Obstacles (OLO)! OLO goes into more depth about a proactive approach, prevention, overcoming heart failure, reversing dis-order, activating your genes, as well as how to Biohacking your Body Back to Better health to re-energize, feel better and be happier.

As a nationally board-certified NP for over 3 decades, I have healed thousands holistically. My passion is to help millions more who were also left hopeless by their doctors to overcome, re-energize, feel better, and be happier, often without meds. By empowering my fellow healthcare professionals with my same techniques and simple solutions internationally, I’ve created, not a mere rippling effect, but that massive tidal wave effect.

My heart!!! My SACRED HEART
Listen to your intuition and follow your sacred heart. Over 46,000 EXTRA heart beats in 24 hours threw my heart into heart failure. My vital organ was failing! The heart doctor wanted me to ignore my symptoms. Do not ignore your body’s warning signs. If your healthcare provider is not getting you healthy, consider firing them! That’s exactly what I did. I had to believe that I could come out of heart failure. “Where there is a will there’s a way.” I can NOT fail, if I do not quit. Quitting was not an option with my LIFE!

When I can attack the root cause, I can stop progression, reverse dis-order, rid symptoms and decrease the need for pharmaceutical dependencies (medications).
For example, my patient’s obesity caused his high blood pressure, diabetes and knee pain. After I helped him lose 100 pounds, his blood pressure, diabetes and knee pain resolved without meds.

So, for myself, I had to do the same—find the cause to find the solution. You can read more about my heart issues and how I helped heal myself holistically without meds in my book Overcoming Life Obstacles. OLO went on to become a #1 International Bestseller in several countries and multiple categories.