A Mother's Path to Wholeness: Navigating Cancer and Reconnecting with the Universe
Healing Stories
The road that led me to Melissa's door began in 2011. I came home in the afternoon to find my husband, Larry, daughter, Carrie, and son-in-law Brian waiting for me. Not normal. Larry took my hand and asked me to sit with them, “Carrie’s cancer has returned.” Stage IV breast cancer is “satan’s name”. In that moment, my heart fell out of my body and shattered into pieces. How does a mother hear those words and take another breath? This began my descent into hell.
A journey of treatments for our daughter and learning that she was only expected to live six months. I felt sentenced to life in prison.
Depression, anxiety, and dramatic weight loss were only the outer manifestations of a pain so deep I could not breathe but somewhere inside I knew I had to stay alive.
When Carrie was diagnosed the first time, at age 31 (five years earlier), she was in medical school and not yet married. I was so grateful to be able to pour my heart into her journey back to health. So much love and support came our way nourished both of us and she became a breast cancer survivor. She had looked death in the eye and found a depth of gratitude and joy that she had never known. It was contagious — she shared that wisdom and love with her family, friends, and patients. She met and married Brian and she became pregnant. She had wanted to be a mom all her life but that was not part of her journey in this life. She miscarried. We all mourned that loss deeply, yet were hopeful that the miracle of a baby was just a little further down the road. Then at 37 years of age, her life, full of promise and love experienced “satan’s return”. The cancer had come back.
I know there are no accidents but cruel reality disconnected me from that wisdom and my soul went with it. This spiral began for me: medication, psychotherapy, ECT, of course, these were only treating the symptoms of depression and anxiety but my soul was shattered by grief.
Carrie was amazing in her strength and courage. She endured, with grace, the pain, the fatigue, and the full accompaniment of everything that went with her cancer treatments. She was able to go back into her medical practice and give her patients excellent care and true compassion. She exceeded the six-month prognosis and went on to live for almost five years. She passed in 2016 and that was the beginning of my new relationship with my daughter. In 2017, she led me (and I am not speaking allegorically) to a gifted healer, Iva Nasr. The spiritual healing began in earnest. Iva held, supported, and guided me in so many ways and when I could no longer tolerate the side effects of all the medications, Melissa appeared on Iva’s radar.
As anyone who has had the opportunity to work with Melissa knows, her practice embraces your whole being: acupuncture, herbs, and Dragon’s Way Qigong. I immediately sensed Melissa was with me reflecting my reconnect with my own inner physician. I began to feel the interdependence of all my body’s systems. I recognized everything is energy and I began to step into the universal source of all energy. Every cell in my body began to harmonize with Divine Flow. Melissa’s understanding of my meridian system and ability to work with it cleared and released blockages and downloaded energy from the Universal Qi. She taught me how to open the four master energy gates, releasing stagnation in my upper and lower body and strengthening my energy foundation. Balance returned. "Dis-ease” transformed. I found my joy again. My heart overflows with gratitude and I have reconnected to the infinite and unconditional love of the universe. Miracles are everywhere you just need the access code.
Lee Glasscock