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Isabella B.

Isabella B. Case Study

I’m a 23 year old program associate named Isabella working in the field of international health care at Global Food and Nutrition.  I learned that every disease has a positive aspect: naturally healed, it leaves a person stronger. Only now I understand the truth of this quote, but only a year ago, it seemed far from the truth. With Greg’s help, I was able to regain the healthy, energetic, and spiritual self I had lost. 

Over the past three years, my life had been going by in a blurry mess, in which I tried to keep from giving up.    At age 20, my whole body started malfunctioning. Once the healthiest and the most energetic of people, I felt completely incapacitated and lifeless. My digestive system seemed to just stop functioning. I could not eat anything without feeling pain, a choking fullness in my chest and stomach, and overall weakness. My muscles were hurting so much I could barely walk up the stairs, let alone train my clients at the gym.  It was so hard for me to breathe, every conversation was a struggle.  My brain became foggy and thoughts unclear and blurry.  Every morning was a struggle to get out of bed.  Once one of the most attractive women in my school, I felt ashamed to get out of my room: I gained weight, my face looked like I hadn’t slept in days.

Over this period, I remember the struggle, the faces of “doctors,” the desperation from no answers, self-pity, depression, and pain.  I wanted to know what was wrong with me, know how to act, what to do.  The answers I got from doctors were dissatisfying, and the list of antibiotics only strived to get rid of seemingly unrelated symptoms, such as anemia, low white blood cell count, infections.  After the 20^th doctor telling me that there was nothing really wrong with me, I cried myself to sleep with a determination to find my own answers. After all, I was a personal trainer, a nutritionist, and had helped others lead healthier lives. 

Delving deeper and deeper into research, I found five thousand different explanations as to what could be wrong with me. With a list of symptoms I had, I could have Fibromalasia, Disbacteriosis, Celiac disease, wheat intolerance, a list of autoimmune disorders, leaky-gut syndrome, Candida, even leukemia.  Every article on another poorly researched disease offered me some consolation.  Then I tried to find cures to these self-diagnosed illnesses.

I tried every natural herbal remedy, every elimination diet, and every immune-booster I could get my hands on.  The only thing that helped a little was a complete elimination of wheat from my diet.  I believed (and doctors supported my theory) that bread was the culprit of all my problems.  Every time I felt the debilitating symptoms, I blamed it on the wheat derivative that might have been in the sour cream, in the soup, the crumb that I must have eaten.  Then I cut out dairy. That helped a little too.  But I was miserable. I was constantly on high alert for foods that were going to put me out of balance.

At a health fair at Washington Post, I saw a man, who sat quietly and had an air of calmness around him that made me stop.  At this time, I was an intern at the Organization of American States. Ironically, I was organizing health seminars, and leading the wellness program for the employees.  I felt a little better by then, but every little stressful thing would through me out of balance.

I approached Greg Lee to ask what he did, and was a little drawn back by the spiritual healing and executive-coach title. I hoped he would be some doctor that would give me the answers.  But instead he sat me down and talked to me, and gave me a five minute healing session. I felt a certain ease in my abdomen, and his talk interested me.  Very skeptical and mostly motivated by the free consultation, I later went to an appointment in his office, wondering whether I should just turn back and forget about the whole thing.

During the consultation, we talked about things that seemed completely unrelated to my visit.  I felt really disappointed that he did not use acupuncture needles and that he expected that a movement of his hands and a simple talk would solve my “serious” problems. Nevertheless, I went back again twice: something told me that I was going to get help.

In the next sessions, Gregory helped me re-evaluate my life, think of what I was trying to do, brought up my internalized emotions, helped my bottled up emotions come out and realize that maybe it was in my strength to help myself, maybe I wasn’t so sick after all. Maybe I just missed Armenia, my home country, maybe I was trying to control everything too much, and maybe I was just not letting in the higher energy to help me heal. I appreciated these conversations, and felt ease to a certain extent, but still wasn’t convinced.

The night after the session I had a dream: I was pulled out of lake Sevan in Armenia in which I was swimming and then saw it dry in front of my eyes.  I woke up sobbing.  All of a sudden, Gregory’s words, my revelations, the Remembrance, came into focus. I had lost my true identity, the inner spirit that kept me alive.  I was in a rat race, forgetting to stop and look into myself. I had forgotten what it’s like to be taken care of, what it’s like to be a child. That day, I bought a ticket to Armenia, a ticket to go into my past, and to find myself again.

When I took the first breath of the air, the 12 years of my life away from home started erasing from my brain.  I felt like my charger found an outlet from which is could get the missing energy again.  The next month was a miracle, a rebirth.  Every conversation, every stone I saw, every breath I took, brought me closer to myself, to the eternal energy.  I became connected with myself, with the generation of people that were my brothers and sister, and, most importantly, with a higher spirit, universal energy.  I was finally open to it, and it shook me up as I sang in the ancient monasteries, as I felt the vehement presence of the biblical Mt. Ararat. The proof that there was more to life than just money and success, was in front of me every second. I surrendered to its soothing energy, to the great force that makes and heals.  When I celebrated my 23^rd birthday, the string tightly tied on my hand for fulfillment of my wishes, came undone at exactly the hour of my birth.  I started crying as I knew that I had been given a new chance, a new life that I would now treasure and appreciate. 

Back in DC for two months now, I ate bread after two years of not eating it, and I only felt stronger.  All of my symptoms went away.  There is nothing in my body that is bothering me. I feel an ease, serenity, and a vital energy.  I am so thankful that for this disease that I had, and for the healing that changed my life.  I thank Gregory not for healing me, but for opening my eyes, my senses, and leading me to surrender to a Higher Energy.  With his help, that I first underappreciated, I was able to find myself completely: to regain the healthy, energetic, and a spiritual self I had lost.  Now I am ready to live and to help others heal. 

Greg, I have to thank you for everything and especially for letting me see and believe in the miracles that we can have through the power of a higher being.  You have no idea what you did for me. My life is back in place and I feel the strength to be myself once again.

Isabella B.

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