My Personal Experience with Headaches... and My Discovery of Biofeedback!

I know just how devastating headaches can be to a person’s life. In 1989 I was in a car accident, which left me with a great deal of head and back pain for several years. I lost my job teaching at a high school in New York State because I “took too many days off” due to the pain. This was financially devastating. Then my relationship broke up because the man I was with simply did not understand pain. I remember him saying “You don’t look hurt”. I ended up moving out West to the dry climate where my body felt much better. I left behind everything that was familiar. I left behind my friends and family. I was physically exhausted from the pain, jobless, and my life was in upheaval. Sound familiar!?

The insurance company decided to cut me off from benefits after one year while I was still suffering from intense daily pain. This left me on my own to figure it all out. With that comes the blessing in disguise! I stumbled upon biofeedback and finally, after suffering with intense chronic pain for over two years, learned how I could take control of the pain. What a gift! I learned how to reduce my stress induced muscle tension with biofeedback and brought the spasms under control. I soon knew I had to share this with others. It was my calling in life.

In 1994 I went back to school to become a certified biofeedback therapist. Since the mid- 70’s I had studied yoga, meditation, and mind-body healing out of my own personal interest; and taught workshops on these subjects. I made several trips to India over the years to further study the mind-body-spirit connection. Biofeedback brought a scientific basis for proving the mind-body relationship in healing and reducing pain. This was very exciting!

The power of the mind to heal is beyond belief! I have continuously seen miraculous recoveries over and over again during my years working as a biofeedback therapist. In the 90’s I even got to try it on myself a second time. After a ski injury, the orthopedic surgeon told me that I would need surgery to replace my ACL. He said that I should deal with it after I got off the crutches for the fractures which gave me about eight weeks. I immediately made myself tapes to work with on a daily basis and tapped into the subconscious mind, using imagery and other techniques, to heal myself. When I went back for a checkup he sent me to the physical therapist three times because he declared that the readings had to be wrong! He said that these readings were showing that my knee was stronger than the average person’s knee that had never been injured! Also, my injured knee was now stronger than my other knee! He didn’t ask me how I did it…it just left him a bit puzzled!

In using the power of my mind to heal I successfully eliminated the need for surgery. This is what I teach my patients how to do; use the mind to heal. This is something that can be taught. They are learnable skills.
I have spent over sixteen years working with people who suffer from migraine and other types of headaches. It is with enormous gratitude to the patients I have worked with around Colorado, and to the doctors who believed in my work, that I bring you my books, CD’s, products and teachings. Thank you for letting me share these gifts with you.

My credentials...

• M.P.S., Masters in Professional Studies, State University of New York at New Paltz, in humanistic psychology and education, 1980
• B.C.B - Board Certified in Biofeedback, Biofeedback Certification Institute of America, 1995
• L.M.H.C. - Licensed Mental Health Counselor, New York State, 2006
• C.S.T - Certified Seminar Trainer - Peak Potentials
• Board member/membership chair, Colorado Association of Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (C.A.A.P.B.), 1996 – 2000
• Teacher, University of Colorado Medical School, Denver, “Introduction to Biofeedback”
• Hospital experience in biofeedback – Boulder Community Hospital in Pain Recovery Center, and Centura Health Hospital, Durango, Colorado, in Pain Clinic
• Co-creator of multi-disciplinary neurological clinic (Windom Medical Center), Durango, Colorado
• Private biofeedback practice – Durango, Colorado and Boulder, Colorado
• World Yoga University, Monroe, New York, 1978 – 1982, studied yoga and holistic healing
• Keynote speaker and seminar trainer, stress management - at Omega Institute, schools (for teachers and students), government organizations, corporations, hospitals, 1980-present
• Stress Management for Children - Developed curriculum for the "Life Positive" program, which was published and distributed nationally as part of a drug abuse prevention program.1988
• Yoga teacher – for all populations from teens to seniors, and people living with pain, 1982-present

…Living life again… feeling fabulous! Pain free…naturally!

…living free of pain I can have fun and celebrate life again!

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