The Mission

I knew when I was very young that I had a mission to fulfill. I went about it in very creative, unusual ways. I did performance art on topics like prejudice, sexism, racism, violence and addiction before I was 14 years old. I did everything I could to wake people up to the terrible situations that were poisoning this beautiful planet. I was blessed to be discovered very early in life by people who understood mediumship and high levels of energetic ability. I met my first teacher when I was 4 years old, and learned to meditate and how to respect the boundaries of others even while reading their thoughts. Who would have guessed that a psychiatrist friend of my grandfather would launch me into my mission and teach me the power of silence and prayer? This blessing continued. Whenever I needed to learn something new, mysteriously but consistently, someone would appear to show me the new steps. 

Since my ability to hear people's thoughts and feel things beyond the normal sensory range was way ahead of the new age movement, I had to keep my ability to heal people’s injuries and ease their heartaches to myself. Of course I would get caught at this occasionally when people suddenly got relief from their suffering. When this happened more and more, I knew I had to do something else to help people. I began a quest to find out what actually could heal and banish the darkness that was taking over this world.

I committed myself to learn everything I could about my gifts. I studied every religion, philosophy, psychological, medical, alternative modality I could find. I wanted to discover the common ground in all of these things so I could help people unburden their hearts and change their lives. I especially enjoyed working with young people who were considered at risk or in trouble, in schools and even in prisons. Despite my efforts to remain undercover, the teachers, therapists, even the prison guards, were stunned at the results I was getting, even with the most difficult kids. They started asking me if I could do whatever it was I was doing to help them and members of their families. That was the way I realized that what I was really doing all day long was healing people through my own distillation of all I had learned and drawn from the many traditions of ancient and modern medicine. I also had many living teachers, especially one woman, Eleanor, who I trained with for nine years. I was very fascinated by the gifts I had been blessed with and wanted to use them responsibly. However, no matter how passionate I was about learning, I never really considered doing this as my life work. Eleanor warned me that I should be careful or I could get promoted. She also said “If you can't handle the heat, then you should get out of the kitchen.” I really didn’t take that seriously because there was no way I was leaving such a fascinating situation. Then Eleanor passed away. I was terribly sad when I realized that there was no one who wanted to pass her work forward. One of the people who had studied with Eleanor informed me quite bluntly that she had passed the work to me. Although I was shocked, I very quietly said “okay” because I knew that it was true. I knew that I was fully stepping into the mission that I had known about since I was a child. 

3 days after Eleanor’s passing I began to get phone calls from her students from many countries asking if they could work with me. At the same time, I was getting constant phone calls from all of the schools and prisons that I had worked in asking if I would help them and their family members. Since that day, over 42 years ago, I haven’t had one day off. I am very happy to say that I do not long for a day off, only for more time to add more skills and tools to my toolkit so I can continue passing this forward to all of you. 

When I began teaching groups of people how to do mediumship, channeling, energy healing and processing of trauma, I made a decision to never stop my training. The reason for this was that when I started teaching, very few people had ever heard of energy medicine and high levels of mediumship and channeling. I was taking people out of their known realities into vast, mysterious, uncharted parts of themselves. I recognized how scary it was for me to do something that no one else I knew was doing. I figured it might be the same for my students. Therefore, I made a commitment to always remember that vulnerability of entering the unknown. I decided that every year, I would take a different training in something I had never done before. This led me to explore at least 50 modalities, from ancient to modern, western to eastern, anything designed to help people heal. 3 years ago, having run out of things to study and having 7 more days left of the year, I saw an ad to take a ballroom dance class. Since I had never danced with a partner, I thought that would be an interesting way to close the year and keep my promise. Much to my surprise, ballroom went from an interesting challenge to a complete passion. It is constantly inspiring, exciting and completely new. So that is why, when I am not healing or teaching, you will find me training at Danznik Studio, with my three amazing teachers. 

Isn’t that a great excuse to keep dancing? In essence, I keep my promise to remain in the unknown so that I can take each and every one of you into the unexplored corners of your souls to discover your individual, authentic gifts. I get to dance with my beautiful husband Liam and be challenged to my limit by my teachers Brook, Tatiana and Eddie. I can’t describe the gratitude I feel for being taught so magnificently. I try to tell them how much it means to me but I think it is so much greater than my words can express. I will have to pass the magic they have brought into my life forward to you by helping you make your dreams come true. All of this has really rekindled my intention to bring people together and stand up for a way of life that we as humans deserve. We need to combine our skills, love and purpose so that the world can be everything it was meant to be. We need to pass all of this forward to our children so that they can take courage and create the world of their dreams.

Thanks to all of my teachers past, present and future.

Thank you to all of you who give me a reason to do this work every day.