A MOTHER'S GRACE QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER 14TH Edition

It has been a long while since I have updated. My son Joseph is doing well these days and has since moved on from transitional living. He has had some challenges with holding a job, but I am grateful and blessed that he has been so far able to deal with his anxieties and episodes! We continue with daily meditation and some Mom/son energy healing! As a result he has asked me to attune to him to Reiki 1 and I am thrilled to be able to share that with him. GO JOE! I love you!

In other news, I am now taking care of my mother who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. We are determined to keep her home and care for her until she transitions on to the next leg of her journey. I will post more on my journey with Mom for there is much to share...the ups, the downs, the challenges, the joys, the laughter, the tears, the moments of clarity, the frustrating setbacks, the gracious present moment, the patience quotient, and the blessed lessons. For now, any prayers, good thoughts, and peace are more than welcome! I THANK YOU! Remember this is a place to share your stories too! Email me at storywhispers1111@gmail.com

Mindfull of Love Project

Good Mid-August my friends! I hope this day finds you well!
A healing community supporting mental health and releasing stigma through education, compassion, and grace. We will provide holistic and healing services/tools/products to those in need at home, in hospitals, rehab centers, transitional living facilities, jails, halfway houses, homeless shelters, nursing homes, and so on ... We will provide aromatherapy and therapeutic grade essential oils, energy healing, EFT, cranial sacral therapy, music therapy, reflexology, yoga, tai chi, nutritional counseling, juicers, high speed blenders, organic and healing gardens, medicinal mushrooms, humor, the arts, literature,ayurvedic medicine, homeopathy, etc etc!! We can also share our experiences with thought disorders... Mental Illness, Autism, Alzheimers, PTSD, Brain injury, and any illness that effects the thought processes. We will voice our struggles, our lessons, and our successes with grace, dignity, and love. It will evolve into one voice that will carry throughout the Universe and create a miraculous chain of healing! Let us reintroduce ourselves the forgotten ones in our society...welcome them home again...embrace them into a healing atmosphere of love. It's time!
Here is my facebook page, feel free to like and share!! https://www.facebook.com/mindfullofloveproject  If you would like to be involved in any way...please do contact me at angelicstrands@aol.com And please know if you need help and are contemplating suicide, call someone, call the hotline...there is always someone ready to help! 1800 273-8255 YOU are NOT alone!! Much love, Victoria

A MOTHER'S GRACE QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER 13th Ed.

Good Day and Happy Spring! It is a time for new beginnings filled with hope and miracles! My Joe has been doing pretty well overall, but we are still dealing the voices....no matter what drugs are used, they still plague him! He is in the hospital again as I type this update. I hear the sadness and torment in his voice and my heart bleeds for him. The helplessness is unbearable at times!
Before this last struggle, Joe had started using doTERRA therapeutic grade essential oils and taking their amazing supplements. He has been eating much better, lost 100 pounds, and meditates daily.  There has been great improvement and he feels a difference, but we still* deal with the voices. I am in the process of coming up with an even more detailed regiment for him and incorporating the Emotional Freedom Technique(tapping) along with the oils! The search for help is ongoing and we add as many healing techniques as we can ongoing, but I have hit many a roadblock with finding therapies to specifically deal with the voices so onward and upward with the search! If anyone has had successes in any way with other therapies, please do share your story with me! I believe that consistency is key, but not always an easy task!  I hope to get some diffusers and doTERRA oils into his facility and someday ALL facilities and hospitals! I am in the process of speaking with Joe's doctor and the head of his facility to see if we cant get this healing program on its feet! Say a prayer with me as you read this update...hold your hands over your heart, feel the warmth and love, then send it out to all those suffering with thought disorders, their caretakers and family,social workers, and all medical and alternative practitioners! We need a healing blast of love sent out every single day...do join me and know that I will never give up on helping our children and anyone dealing with such difficult challenges! God bless*

Some links and info on essential oils for schizophrenia and EFT!

http://www.everythingessential.me/HealthConcerns/Schizophrenia.html#page=page-1

http://eft.mercola.com/

Contact me to share your story or get more info on essential oils: angelicstrands@aol.com

A MOTHER'S GRACE QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER 12th Ed

     

Love is Here, it never left us.

     As I sit here with a heavy heart for all those in sorrow and deep pain over the loss of their children and loved ones in Newtown,Ct and all over the world, I pray and send an abundance of healing light and love. May we all be embraced by the angels as were those beautiful souls the moment they passed from this human life. 

     I awoke the other night abruptly at 3am in tears and began to hold all of our children in complete Love, and immediately those 20 sweet souls and the 6 adults who passed on from this human life shared in love that they in that moment accepted what was about to happen and knew this tragedy would bring about instrumental changes for the whole world so that other lives would be saved! They truly are Angels! :) They passed with no suffering and were immediately guided by the teachers that had passed with them...they helped them as they would have if they were in school on a normal day. Their souls are in complete awareness and know this will be the ripple effect needed to end future horrors. The All that is God surrounded them in beauty, peace, compassion, joy, and perfect Love...each still a part of this Oneness and connection to us all. They are in the grace and bliss of the heavenly energies and will be ever-present during this shift to Love that is needed and is happening! I honor their little sweet spirits for being catalysts of Love and peace! 

     We are now sharing on a global level so many feelings, words, and thoughts about this horrible event. It is so important in all our communications to use love-infused words for every time we do, an Angel of Sandy Hook smiles down upon us in affirmation! Every word in love, is a prayer. Every time we hug someone, it is a prayer. Every time a teacher comforts a student, it is a prayer. Every time a child giggles with another on the playground, it is a prayer. Love is ever-present and so concentrated in our time of 2012 that the only thing left to do is surrender, remember, and resonate completely to it All. 

     There are many ideas on what specifically needs to be done to end this chain of tragedies. But what is at the core of the "sickness?" Fear and anger,disconnection, a toxic environment... inside and outside of the body, and the absence of love . We need to now BE LOVE and SHARE LOVE as one Universal Body. How do we do this? One ever loving moment at a time...make the choice right this second as you read this to be in the Love...and together we can send to Newtown and the world. 

     Let's make the choice to aid in prevention of any and all thought disorders. One in 157 children get autism? Preschoolers on anti-psychotics and mood altering drugs? Children as young as 4 and 5 years old exhibiting anger and rages? Untreated people with thought disorders left on the streets etc.? Are they evil? Absolutely not! We have one Source and that is Perfect Love. They just need help.... real help!

     As a mother of a beautiful, kind son, who happens to have a thought disorder, I know all too well how broken the mental health system is and how my child and so many more need the RIGHT healing services with more healing facilities within* healing communities! 

    It is not only time to release the stigma attached to mental illness, but we must now in 2012 treat the whole person (mind, body, and spirit), not the "disease!" We must revamp our current healing model in the mental health system. We need to work together as Holistic Practitioners and Traditional Medical Practitioners because I do believe in a balance between the medical community and holistic/alternative community. We need a new model of healing that includes better healing facilities to diagnose, test, and figure out what exactly is going on inside their being that effects the brain. This would include not only traditional testing, but also toxicity tests, allergies, and more. The healing facility would have balanced organic whole foods, alternative therapies(energy,cranial sacral,essential oils, music/sound, brainwave, art, etc), and the place would be filled with beautiful art and surrounded by nature. There would be traditional and non-traditional doctors working along side of each other to figure out the best healing plan for the person in need of healing. The mind, body and spirit will be nurtured in all ways. To say this is a cure-all would be presumptuous, but it gives our people a far better chance at healing, and they deserve it as we all do!
     Until such a place can breathe as a facility, we can begin with ourselves within our own hearts and homes, as a healing community sharing our spiritual gifts, and infusing love everywhere we go...so are we ready now?

Love is Here, it never left us.

A MOTHER'S GRACE QUARTERLY NEWS LETTER 11th Edition

Hello Everyone! I am off today to take Joe to his medical doctor and talk to him about starting Joe  on some supplements and essential oils! Particularly Doterra Essential oils...we will use frankincense, vetiver, and the balance blend!I will be updating each month on his progress with this protocol!! Here is some info on Frankincense!!! Love and healing to you all!!!

 FRANKINCENSE
BOSWELLIA FREREANA
Calming, Revitalizing and Uplifting-- When in doubt start with Frankincense. Good for children, seniors, elderly, pregnancy, transitions and enlightenment.
Dr. David K. Hill has a book on Frankincense available thru www.aromatools.com and see webinars on www.builddoterra.com Dr. Hill has created on Frankincense for our education.
FRANKINCENSE is also known as olibanum, and is a small, shrubby tree with white flowers. Incisions in the bark produce a milky-white resin that hardens into orange-brown “tears,” and the essential oil is steam-distilled from these “tears” of hardened resin. Frankincense has fresh, citrus, turpentine top notes and sweet, warms, balsamic, camphoraceous, wood-smoke undertones. It blends well with most floral, woods, spices and citruses, also with patchouli, clary sage, rosemary, basil, vetiver and my favorite mix is with Wild Orange - protector on several levels.
Research shows traditional use of Frankincense in driving away evil spirits (Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, French, Asian folklore and rituals), and if we think of these spirits as obsessions, fears and anxieties which may have become manifest as physical illness, we understand the benefits of applying Frankincense for all occasions.
FRANKINCENSE: analgesic, anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, anti-depressant, astringent, carminative (relieves gas), cicatrizant, cytophylatic (stimulating regeneration of cells), digestive, diuretic, expectorant, sedative, immune boosting tonic, anti-carcinogistic.
Frankincense is the most valuable essential oil for slowing and deepening breathing, helping to allay fear, anxiety, nervous tension and stress. It literally smells divine, and was traditionally burned as an offering to the gods. Useful in massage and bath oils, Frankincense is also good in inhalation, diffusers and mood blends. It counteracts respiratory problems and is useful in treating colds, bronchitis, asthma, coughs and sore throats.
Frankincense has been documented all over the world to have a very strong Cancer deterrent factor --Nicole Stevens has produced current research on effectiveness of essential oils with eliminating cancer and is published - available www.aromatools.com. Dr. Hsueh-Kung Lin, published his research on doTERRA’s Frankincense clearly stating that in eliminating many forms of cancerous cells this is the most potent and effective oil he has had the privilege of working with - the fragrance made him more energetic too.
One of the gifts of Frankincense is its’ chemistry - sesquiterpenes--can cross the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) and facilitates oxygenation of cells for optimal
communication at the cellular level. In a study that has already triggered follow-up work, sesquiterpenes were shown to increase the number of certain receptors in the brain and are now considered prospects for treatment of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and schizophrenia.* (Frankincense, Sandalwood, Valerian, Myrrh, Vetiver research) Skin treated with the sesquiterpenes allows polar compounds such as water to penetrate more effectively.
Frankincense has profound psychological and spiritual benefits, long recognized by religious and spiritual traditions the world over. Its centering effect allows one to focus clearly and is an ideal aid to meditation, contemplation, and prayer, ceasing mental chatter and stilling the mind. Facilitating a state of single-pointed concentration, it allows the Spirit to Soar. Helpful in allowing the past to be in the past, and creating an environment in which optimism and an expectation of freedom in dwelling on current successes that allow peace and self-acceptance to take place.

A MOTHER'S QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER 10th EDITION

Good Winter's Day!!

Hope this New Year of 2012 finds you well and deep in blessings! My dear Joseph has been home for months now and doing well. He is still living at his current home, Interlude, and in the middle of finding a job. For now, we are still going one moment at a time, but isnt that how we all should live? :) I recently spent time with Joe on his 26th birthday on 1/11/12 and we had a lovely day sharing coffee, lunch, and gift shopping! I am grateful for our moments of love and healing...for I believe in putting that intention for each and every one of them! I started a page on facebook called ShareLoveNow...I try each day to get in the consciousness of sharing Love and any and all happy feelings with the Universe...with everyone, everything, every creature, every cell of the Universe, the All!! If you are eating your favorite meal and you feel the joy, stop for second and share it with the All. It can be that simple!! If you look at your child and you well up with Love inside, share the Love!!!! Reprogram your mind to do this each day...watch the miracles and balance occur within your own life and the Universe!!
For this moment as you read my blog, let's all take a moment and surround and fill all those challenged with a mental illness and their families and share love with them from your heart and soul! It truly makes a difference...love carries energy, everything does...and I believe it is the most powerful healing tool...so let's our hold hands over our hearts and send! <3

A MOTHER'S GRACE QUARTERLY BLOG 9th edition

Well here we are some months later after a long stay at the state hospital and although my Joe has been doing okay, the voices still plague him! The meds will only go so far...we are in need of something else. I still firmly believe in diet, vits, and other natural remedies, and all that beautiful healing way, but unless someone can be on call for Joe 24/7 to help him deal with the voices in whatever means...it will end up staying the same as it is now...in and out of hospitals adjusting meds! In Joe's case and in most cases , this healing model doesn't work! I have researched and found a group called hearingvoices.org and I will contact them and maybe find a way to start a support group in Joe's area. I have also done some reading on Carl Jung...it all sounds good on the internet , but where are the people schooled in this? Has no one come up with some behavioral therapy for hearing voices? I will keep searching and talking and praying! For right now, my Joe took control in some way this past week and when the voices were so strong, he told his case manager he should go in the hospital because he didnt feel safe. That has never happened before and albeit scary, he took control...unfortunately the only answer was back in the hospital. But we pray.....