Here’s my Story…………
A defining moment happened in my life in April 2002. I had just completed my first Big Sur Marathon and was feeling fanatastic! My Rolf Structural Integration myofacial release practice was going well, my family was healthy and I was living in the most beautiful place on the planet, Big Sur, CA. It felt like a wonderful dream!
And then something happened that would change the course of my life forever. I received a phone call from Florida to say that my estranged father was in ICU and bleeding out in the hospital and would I please come. I had not seen my father since I was 3 years old when my mother left him and took all four kids away in the middle of the night. My father and I had recently made contact by email and I was the last of the four children to do so. There were no hard feelings, I just did not have a burning desire to run to Florida to meet him.
Well, I ended up leaving the day after the marathon to go to his bedside in Florida. When I arrived, I was surprised at how much emotion there was and how much I really wanted him to pull through and live. I wanted to get to know him after all!
I immediately went into “healer” mode using training that I had picked up over the years in my bodywork practice. I used gentle massage techniques, essential oils and flower essences, love and positive intention and Reiki energy work while he lay unable to speak in his hospital bed. To the amazement of the hospital staff and the rest of the family, he started to become stronger and stronger. I stayed for two weeks and worked with him until he was out of ICU and able to start walking on his own.
It felt great to know that he was going to make it and that we would have another chance to get to know one another. I went back to California with hope in my heart.
It had been raining in Big Sur when I arrived home and that meant one thing, Chanterelle mushroom hunting! We decided to step out our back door and take a stroll through the woods to look for some yummy Chanterelles. We found plenty that day and brought home our treasure.
What I didn’t realize was that I brought home more than just Chanterelles. I brought home a rash too. It was no big deal, a little poison oak on my lower back, or so it seemed. Over the next few days and weeks the rash seemed to morph and change and grow, not to mention ITCH! It was now the shape of a butterfly on my lower back and sacrum and extended down the back of both legs. It looked, felt and acted just like poison oak so I figured I would just wait it out like I usually did. I tried my remedies on the rash but nothing worked and it kept getting worse.
Then I started noticing that I was short of breath on my walks in the morning and that I would become fatigued very quickly and need to lie down. At this point my symptoms started to snowball. There was extreme fatigue, muscle aches, shortness of breath, dizziness, anxiety, palpitations, nausea and strange neurological type buzzing in my body but especially in my brain. My memory took a dive and I realized something was really wrong when I could not remember my ATM pin number. It felt as if I was having internal epileptic seizures at times and I was unable to move or do anything about it. My strength went downhill very fast and at work, I found myself needing to rest in between clients.
What on earth could be going wrong with me? I knew that my nervous system was on overload but nothing worked to calm it down. I would just sit and shake at the table. Not being one to seek out medical attention, I decided it was time to go to my doctor. She ran all the typical tests from bloodwork to chest x-rays to EKG’s but found absolutely nothing wrong. How could that be? I felt horrible and I could feel that I was in deep trouble.
I was in deep despair. My doctor suggested that I seek psychiatric help but I knew deep inside that a psychiatrist was not the answer. I did seek counseling but it still did not affect my symptoms. Then one day, I was talking on the phone with my friend’s mother from Minnesota. I was telling her about my situation and how frustrated I was about not getting any answers. She said, “Maybe you should ask Kim (her daughter) to put you on her biofeedback machine.” She told me about this “machine” that could analyze the stress in your system, even from a distance, and then balance out the stress levels. This sounded very Star Trek to me, but I decided to give it a go. Nobody else had been able to help me at that point and I had nothing to lose. So I followed her instructions and sent Kim my completed intake sheet, a sample of my hair and saliva in a small envelope and a check. Then I forgot about it.
The following week I was back at the doctor’s office trying to figure this whole thing out. While I was there talking with her, I realized that I was starting to feel strangely different. I chalked this up to yet another mysterious symptom that would pop up out of nowhere. But this time when I arrived home, I realized that this feeling was actually a GOOD feeling. I wasn’t anxiety ridden and I felt like I was floating on a cloud of pure BLISS!
I was delighted, yet confused and then I thought, Kim! I wonder if she did that “session” with the machine. The next day I called her and asked her if she had done the session yet. Indeed she had and precisely at the moment that I was in the doctor’s office. I told her how I felt terrific and she laughed and said,” It’s only going to get better and better”. My immediate response was when can you come out here and how do I get a machine? One month later Kim was at my home training me on my new quantum biofeedback device.
Over the next year, I continued to learn how to use the quantum biofeedback device and along with excellent nutrition, I became stronger and stronger until I overcame my despairing situation. It turns out that the symptoms were actually due to Lyme disease from a tick bite which is much more common than one would think. The interesting thing was the SCIO biofeedback continually showed me that I had stress related to Lyme but I did not know that Lyme was actually such an epidemic in our area of the country.
One day I received a phone call from Dr. Janine Talty DO, local Lyme specialist and author of Indigo Awakening. It turns out that Dr. Talty had her own SCIO device but was so busy with patients that she did not have time to use it with them, so she turned to me. She was the one that finally put a name on the face of the disease that I had been struggling with for so long. By the time we met, I had already overcome my disease and I and was now helping her clients to become stronger and healthier with the use of the SCIO biofeedback. We worked diligently together to develop protocols that would help her Lyme patients regain their health and vitality.
One of the most interesting components of disease, ties to the emotional level of disease. In my continued study of dis-ease, I became a student of Dr. Ryke Hamer’s German New Medicine. Dr. Hamer is reknown for his extensive medical documentation of how emotional trauma physiologically effects the brain and body. He studied brain CT scans of thousands of cancer patients and found actual marks on the brain that look like tree rings. Dr Hamer has linked particular types of cancer and other diseases to very specific types of emotional trauma which then can be observed on the CT scan.
Wouldn’t you know it but the emotional conflict associated with Lyme disease has to do with a separation from your family or clan! When I had reunited with my father after 43 years, the conflict of separation with my family was now over and my brain indicated that it was time to heal. This is the exact time that I was exposed to the Lyme bacteria which created such havoc in my life for so long. It was amazing to put this type of information together with my own personal experience. For more detailed information please click here.
Lyme disease is an epidemic in our area of California and there are thousands of people struggling with mysterious symptoms just as I had done. As a result, I have dedicated the rest of my professional career to bringing more health and vitality to those suffering from Lyme disease and other life altering conditions.
If there were a gift in this whole experience, I would have to say that it is to continue to assist and educate others that are walking along the path that I have walked. I am honored to continue to work with many people struggling with Lyme and other emotional and physical stress. Helping them find their way back to a life of fulfillment, strength and vitality has been extremely rewarding and I am continually thankful for the opportunity to serve.
Yours in Health,
Trina