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First Name: Mary Margaret
Last Name: Shimada
City: Orlando

E-mail:yshimada@cfl.rr.com

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Health Problems: Miscarriage(s)

   My husband and I had been married for 2 years and decided it was time for a baby. When you make that decision, you are filled with anticipation to become pregnant, then, finally hold the beautiful creation you both have made.

    Well, it sounded easy. Unfortunately, for us, it was not easy. We began an emotional roller coaster of being pregnant, miscarrying around two to four months, then getting pregnant again. We continued this process for two years and had a total of seven miscarriages.

    We were going to a high-risk clinic during these pregnancies. The doctors did all types tests, including a chromosomal study. They could not understand why I kept miscarrying. The doctors could find no medical reason and since I was only 31, age was not an issue. We wondered why? Why couldn't I carry our baby past four months? Finally, on my seventh pregnancy, I ended up in the hospital. Our baby was not alive and didn't want to come out. I had waited for my body to naturally miscarry but it didn't happen. The result was, a large loss of blood, a D&C, and a very scared husband. He thought he had lost me.

    Finally, we decided I needed to recover and we would not try again. Then, a few months later, we met a husband and wife, a natural health specialist team. They were able to determine that I was very polluted, toxic, very depleted and needed to cleanse my liver, kidneys, and intestines. This is why I could not carry a baby.

    I was a little unsure at first, but when I held certain herbs, I felt a lot stronger. So, I thought, why not try to cleanse. This was all new to me and the medical world could not help me! So I began my program and stuck to it for about a year. Several months later, I became pregnant. We were overjoyed! However, one month later, I miscarried! I almost didn't go to the hospital because I knew what happened.

    After four hours, I decided to get checked out at the emergency room. I had indeed lost one baby but there was still one more and it was still alive! I couldn't believe it, we would have had twins. I was full of emotion because I always wanted to have twins. Now, one was gone but most importantly, we still had one.

    The next step was to go back to my natural health specialist. Through their help, I took many herbs throughout my full term pregnancy. I mostly remember I had to take large doses of omega-3 and flaxseed oil.
I felt so good and delivered a very health 8lbs. 11oz. boy! He is now 5 years old. A few years later we were thinking about trying again. It didn't take long before I was pregnant again.
Of course I contacted Béatrice Duplantier-Rhea (my natural health specialist) and began another program.
Now we also have a healthy 2-year-old girl. (Nina)

    I am very thankful for meeting Béatrice and Christian. They made me understand it is what we put in our bodies that will either strengthen or weaken us. If you put good food in your body, you will have a strong body. This way when it comes time to create a baby, your body is ready for it. It is our decision and in our control to be able to deliver healthy children.


Mary Margaret Shimada

First Name: Kelly
Last Name: Ryder
City: Altamonte Springs FL


E-mail: kelryder@cfl.rr.com

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Health Problems: strong family history of a rare and deadly form of colon cancer

I first heard about Beatrice as I was searching for something that would heal my terminally ill mother. Her colon cancer was ravaging her body and we were desperate to find a way to save her. Beatrice, unfortunately, was unable to save my Mother, as her cancer had already spread throughout her body, but she was able to give her a much better quality of life than it would have been otherwise. We were actually able to go shopping the week before she passed away and she never used a prescription drug or pain medicine. After learning from Beatrice how to nourish and heal an ailing body I soon realized that this was a way to also heal my grieving self and to keep an active family of four from succumbing to the typical pitfalls of childhood illness and obesity.

With Beatrice's guidance the whole family has become healthy, slim, and happy for over four years! I was so
impressed with the changes that occurred by keeping a healthy lifestyle in place, that I decided to make this my profession now that my children are becoming older.

I now have taken many courses and have opened up a natural healing and lifestyle management office of my own. Needless to say, Beatrice has changed all of our lives, and probably saved mine as I was surely on the path to following a deadly family history of a rare form of colon cancer. I now feel confidant that I will lead a long, and healthy life, rather than living in a shadow of fear of things to come.

My family and I will be forever grateful to Beatrice and Christian!

First Name: Suzan
Last Name: Rich
City: Longwood FL
E-mail: szrich@aol.com
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Health problem: Breast Cancer - stage 4

Courageous Healing
Beyond Surviving Stage Four Breast Cancer

The one thing all women discover about breast cancer is there is no appropriate or convenient time for it. My husband and I had been married less than a year when I was diagnosed with Stage Four breast cancer. I had suspicions that it was worse than I thought but was certainly not prepared for the impact of being told by my physician without hesitation, that I would be in surgery the next week to have my breast removed, possibly half my chest and all of my lymph nodes. The doctor's medical prognosis if I did not get treated, was my imminent death based on how advanced it was. Because of a change of hormones, a small little lump that had been watched and checked carefully for 25 years exploded in growth within eight months. You ask yourself all the same questions. Why me? Why now? And of course what for? Being a Type A, neurotic, left brain, "retired" control commando, and woman of good intelligence who had healed through lots of emotional abandonment baggage, you can imagine my profound dislike on being told that I had NO CHOICES in what I was to do about it. If I did not choose to take the traditional treatment for the Stage Four breast cancer I had been diagnosed with, I would die most definitely within a very short period of time. Always at your first initial visit, you sit there in stunned silence hearing the prognosis, recommendations, and the hoped for outcome if you do take surgery and radiation and the absolute doomsday outcome if you don't. I asked for a few days to think over my options, the drastic medical treatment I did not want or to embark on the challenge of an alternative approach supported by my strong spiritual foundations.

I could see the fear on my husband's face, the horrible prospect of what I had been presented with. He lovingly reassured me that I would not be alone in my decision and that he would be there for me. I found myself reassuring him to not worry.
"I" most assuredly knew I was not alone in this challenge. What he did not understand was my full acceptance and awareness that this disease and the possibility of my imminent death are two things that make you realize the choices you make are about the quality of life you want for yourself. You are the only one who will experience the treatment, the fear, the sickness, any disfigurement, and the feelings of anger at your body for betraying you. Disease and death are w/o bias or prejudice in gender, race, age or religious beliefs. It is a futile attempt to think that your strengths, advantages, success, privilege or wealth will allow you to escape from owning your body in this disease.

I took the few days to weigh my options. Being brutalized by surgery and chemotherapy and the destruction of my immune system was not something I could personally accept. I made the decision to believe in everything that I had practiced in my life spiritually and what I counseled as an emotional addiction therapist. I knew that I would not emotionally or physically survive traditional treatment.

Since it is not in my nature to be a victim or a quitter, I had to believe that my body had the capabilities to heal itself with natural treatments and a change of lifestyle. Everyday, I saw clients who were dealing with emotional and physical dysfunction and it always was brought back to the core emotional elements of fear and hopelessness. This was going to be the biggest adventure of my life! Never had I been so strong in my beliefs and convictions. I now truly had the opportunity to put my spiritual beliefs into practice. I never experienced a moment of fear about the decision I had made. If you are afraid of your body, then you are not in harmony with it. You do not do battle with a disease like cancer and win.

It seemed as though I had an emotional buffer around me or maybe I was still just numb. In either case, this fearless foundation never came from any book or advice from experts in the field of fighting cancer but from the faith and trust in my partnership with God, higher power or whatever you are comfortable with. The medical profession has been trying to defeat cancer for 50 years and are no closer to understanding why it exists in order to create a cure for it, only coming up with better treatments. There is a spiritual philosophy that cancer is a disease of hopelessness of the soul. Being without the hope that we will never feel love, long lost and forgotten. We perpetuate this aloneness and separation as a human tribe with our thought process even in entertainment.

Every science fiction picture I have ever seen portrays the future of our humanity in apocalypse. Never once giving us the possibility that we figured out how to love and accept differences in our humanity and created a world where we have managed to find solutions for hunger, violence, racism, hatred or cruelty. I chose to have hope and placed my faith and trust in something that I knew could work out the perfect solution for this challenge. Even if the outcome would be that I did not survive, it would be on my own terms. There are no guarantees, even with traditional treatment. I was not afraid of dying but most importantly, I was not afraid of living a life where I took complete responsibility for my health, my nutrition and my attitude about who would make choices for my body.

I put the word out to my peers and friends that I was looking for someone who would help me overcome this health challenge. In my search for an alternative treatment that I would be comfortable with, the one thing that was the most important criteria was the people involved were not afraid of cancer either. No fear! Understanding that if given the proper help, the body in its perfection would ultimately be the victor over a virus that could not find a physical or emotional environment to live in. I embarked on a Spartan program created by a fearless Doctor of Naturopathy and Master Herbalist who herself had seen the ravages of cancer within her family. I also incorporated energetic healing with my herb therapy.

On New Year's Eve, five years ago I found that incredible person in Beatrice Rhea from Four Winds Nutrition Club. From the very first moment I spent with her, I felt I was in the hands of someone who knew exactly what I wanted. To give my body a chance to do what it is capable of doing, healing itself with a disciplined regime and a structured support system. I was a physical mess, as I never took care of my body nutrionally. Not eating properly or exercising let alone giving my body supplements to support a healthy immune system. Besides having cancer, I was filled with toxins, pesticides, parasites and yeast. All of which cancer feed on. Beatrice started my program with the approach that first you must clean the body out, build it back up and then help the body do what it is capable of, healing itself.

For five months, I went to Four Winds Nutrition everyday. Beatrice giving me what my body told her I needed in herbs and supplements. Taking radionic treatments along a strict change in diet and behavior. Most importantly, I worked continuously in staying spiritual belief that God was more powerful than any cancer. Where God is there is only love and he is everywhere and within everything. Anything else is an illusion of fear. During the detox of sugar, parasites, yeast, pesticides, preservatives, etc., my husband discovered a new roommate. I became an emotional terror called "Big Red" who did a pretty good imitation of Linda Blair's exorcist role. I was not happy about having to give up all the nurturing food of eating out several times a week, junk and processed food. All of which I lived on, since I did not know how to cook.

A year and a half after I began the journey, I was cancer free. It was not the easiest choice and required a tremendous amount of discipline but I had a life to save, my own. It was valuable enough to me to say it was all worth it. In the beginning, I had to adhere to a strict regime but as I got better and stronger, my body required less herbs and supplements. It has been five years since my diagnosis of breast cancer and as of today, I am healthier than I have ever been. In that time frame, I learned to love my body not as a vehicle I demanded to do, eat, and take in whatever my emotions needed but a presence that I share my life with. A living existence that thinks for itself, reacts, and responds to what you put into it emotionally and nutritionally. I also learned that the body will make sure of its survival at all cost. Sometimes making choices of sacrificing healthy body organs to take care of a weakened one. This is why cancer weakens so many other organs. The body is accommodating for the virus.

The outcome of my health challenge, beside the most important one of being free of cancer is that I live in complete understanding of the difference between nurturing one's emotional needs with improper eating, cigarettes, drugs or excesses. Giving your body what it really needs, good healthy emotions, nutrition, supplements and spiritual foundations.

The medical field's approach to cancer is still search and destroy, forgetting what carries the virus is a precious vehicle that you reside in and belongs to you. My lifestyle has changed to one of constantly being aware of what I put into my body and loving it enough to not want it harmed. I still eat out occasionally but eat mostly organic, no wheat or dairy (allergies), poultry without additives, more fruits and vegetables, juicing, no microwaved food and still take herbs and supplements that supports a defensive approach from a questionable environment.

I exercise more, pray more and am thankful everyday when I look into the mirror and see myself whole. I have never had more admiration, honor and respect for those women who choose drastic surgery and chemotherapy. They live with the results of that choice everyday.

My personal choice of alternative healing was never just about alternative versus traditional or vanity but about healing my whole life. Cutting and treating the symptoms of cancer is only a temporary fix to what might possibly be lurking within, fear. Addressing and healing the feelings of loss: in love of self, love of your body and love in your life is the only approach to be free of the fear that creates cancer in our life. Whatever choice we make to eradicate cancer physically from our body is always a personal one. Once that choice is made, our survival depends upon truly claiming the responsibility, loving care and nurturing of these awesome bodies.

Finally, addressing core emotional issues of an inner woundedness that keeps the healing of this disease hidden in fear. My choice of alternative healing got rid of the cancer but also healed my whole life. Addressing the feelings of loss in your life along with a new perception about how you want your body to feel will eliminate any fear that cancer is more powerful than the infinite intelligence that created it.

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