An unnamed retreat attendee shares how a 2017 fall and failed back surgery left her on five heavy pain medications, with severe asthma and complex trauma. She describes the moment at a Joe Dispenza event when she felt healed — an outcome she says she had not believed possible.
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I heard this crunching sound as if there was an aluminum can that had been smashed and someone was like trying to pull it apart. There was this it was incredible. It's like I I was healed right then. I knew I was healed that the most that I had hoped for I received. I'm here to share a my story of transformation that um according to the doctors wasn't supposed to happen. I had a fall in 2017 and a year later I had back surgery um that was supposed to resolve my pain and neurological damage. And initially um in the weeks after the surgery everything looked fine and then 2 months later I woke up and it felt as if I never had surgery. It turned out that um the hardware they fused L um 3, four and five and it pulled on L2 and caused it to herniate and bulge and I was told that it was inoperable. And so I went through years up until COVID of um getting um epidurals every three months. But when COVID happened um it was deemed non-essential surgery and I was left um relying on pain medication. I was taking like five heavy pain medications just to function every day. As a result, my my life completely fell apart. I developed anxiety and depression. Um the whole episode triggered post-traumatic stress disorder um symptoms that um can be linked to my childhood trauma and and so this just coupled on top of it the sense of helplessness. I suffered from severe asthma and anaphilaxis. I had become so sensitive. My body was so traumatized by the accident that I was pretty much housebound and um could gluten intolerant, dairy intolerant at the emergency room like every other month because of severe asthma attacks, sleep apnea. You just it was just unbelievable. I was familiar with Dr. Joe's work, but um I wasn't a believer. And last April, a client um attended the Austin retreat and he came to see me um two weeks after he returned and he told me about his experience and he said um I have to take you there. There is an event in Denver in July and I was in shock. um because I I knew it would cost a lot and I just um was not in a position. My business had gone from being lucrative to me just um working with four clients a month and living on social security. So, it was really hard for me to say yes initially. And and he just said, "What is all of your work about if you can't receive a gift from me? As I heard the stories of the people who were healed, um, my heart and my mind felt like maybe there's a possibility that something could happen for me. So, I came in July with two intentions. The least was that I wanted to receive an attitudinal healing that would allow me to accept that I would be living with chronic pain and relying on medication for the rest of my life. And the second is that I wanted to have a half inch return to the left side of my body. As a result of time with the surgery, my spine um where they fused my spine, it moved over to the left. And so my spine was like this, this, and then the tip of L4 was touching my cervical bone. And so I had developed a curved spine. Unbeknownst to me, I I did apply to be a healy. Um, but I didn't receive any confirmation until I registered and I was pulled into a room by loose. I will never forget her name. I was blown away and and the first indication that I felt that something different was happening was when she said to me that I was worthy of this. and I realized that I held a charge against myself um for this injury, for the profession that I'm in. So, I just surrendered. The meditations were so powerful that by that Thursday, I've recognized, as did my friends, that I was in an altered state. When I was led into the room for the healing, I immediately felt like the energy of the room I it was different. It was full and I guess I can say it was full of love and and I just I really I surrendered to that. I laid down on my mat and I just I did what I did. I called in my ancestors. I heard this beautiful sacred music. I felt like I was in a cathedral. The amount of love that I felt pouring into me was beyond measure. And again, it wasn't just love from the people around me and my friend that gifted me this retreat, but it was the the room carried a frequency of vibration that allowed me to just disappear into that field. There was a lot of phenomena that came up that I experienced during the healing, but I I had an awareness that um it was almost time for the healing to end. It was just a sense that I had. And right after I had that thought, I heard this crunching sound as if there was an aluminum can that had been smashed and someone was like trying to pull it apart. And there was this. And then the next sensation I felt was and heard was this as and I felt my leg extend. It was it was incredible. It's like I I was healed right then. I knew I was healed that the most that I had hoped for I received that evening. Um for the first time in 8 years, my body did not want any medication. I I did not take any opioids and I did not have any night sweats. I had no symptoms, withdrawal symptoms. And it was so profound that that next morning, I called my doctor's office and I cancelled an epidural that was scheduled for September. I've not had an asthma attack since July. I I can eat bread now. I can have cheese. I I have my life back.