I wrote “Emotional Health: The Secret for Freedom from Drama, Trauma, and Pain” over a period of fifteen years and based it on my life experiences and learning, as well as those of 15 other people.

Our health, which includes the emotions, involves finding what works best for us from all the natural healing methods, as well as methods from conventional medicine. The joy of the journey rests on discovery of our own tailor-made program.

I, like many of you,suppressed my emotions for most of my life. I took on the role of the invisible child in my alcoholic family and kept everything inside because I felt unsafe and afraid of my father’s violence.

Through years of suffering low self-esteem, unrecognized low-grade depression, and unhappy codependent relationships, I gradually discovered my high degree of codependency and the inner child inside me sad, lonely, and buried in agonizing pain.

Appearing unemotional on the outside and protected by layers of energetic armor to numb my feelings for most of my life, you may ask how I would be qualified to write and teach about healing the emotions.

Challenged by doubt of my self-worth and continuously swinging back and forth between the two poles of the victim, anger or powerlessness, I emerged from a long journey of forty years learning how to recognize, feel, heal, and express my emotions in a healthy way.