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    An Unlikely Path to Wellness
    An Unlikely Path to Wellness
    An Unlikely Path to Wellness
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    An Unlikely Path to Wellness

    By Paula Gil

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    After the birth of her son, Paulas health spiraled out of control. What should have been the most inspired and joyous time in her life turned into a living nightmare. Plagued by debilitating anxiety and panic attacks, she desperately searched for answers to restore her health and sanity.

    Having exhausted her options with both the medical and alternative health communities, she turned to an unlikely source for answers psychics and mediums.

    Paulas journey back to health took her to the depths of her soul where she rekindled her relationship to the Divine, and where along the way, the unexpected happened she discovered her innate ability to heal through her hands.

    Follow Paula on her journey as she shift s the paradigm for personal care by creating an unlikely healthcare team made up of doctors, alternative health practitioners, psychics and mediums.

    Illuminating and uplifting, An Unlikely Path to Wellness will guide you to create your own unlikely healthcare team, while helping you understand the critical role spirituality plays in health and well being.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press
    Release dateJul 17, 2012
    ISBN9781452554587
    An Unlikely Path to Wellness
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    Paula Gil

    Paula continues to nurture and build her wellness team. She remains focused and dedicated to her spiritual journey and to her path as a Healer. She firmly believes that healing and learning are synonymous. Her life and work are guided by this belief. Paula currently lives in Burnaby, British Columbia with her husband, son, and her dog, Sam. She is a self-employed project management consultant and energy worker. For more information about Paula’s healing practice, please visit www.zaula.com

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      An Unlikely Path to Wellness - Paula Gil

      Copyright © 2012 Paula Gil

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      The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4525-5459-4 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4525-5458-7 (e)

      Balboa Press rev. date: 7/12/2012

      Contents

      Acknowledgements

      Preface

      Introduction

      Setting the Stage

      Falling Apart

      A Bad Road Lies Ahead

      The Veil Starts To Lift

      The Shift

      Momentum

      Rebuilding My Life

      Waffles For Breakfast

      Turning The Corner

      The Wild Monkey Ride

      Creating Your Own Team

      Afterward

      Recommended Resources

      About the Author

      Acknowledgements

      My journey to wellness has been facilitated by the love and support of many. First and foremost, I thank my husband Carlos for standing by me. I thank my son Lucas for helping me initiate this journey, and my parents and my sister for their unwavering help and support. Above all, I thank God for helping me find the courage, persistence and will to move forward into the light.

      I want to thank all my friends and extended family members for their support. Thank you to Victoria, Janean, Jayne and Barbara for their honest thoughts and opinions about this book. My deepest gratitude to Vicky Anderson, my editor, for staying true to my voice.

      I also want to thank all of the doctors, naturopaths, psychic/mediums and medical intuitives who have contributed to my journey. You have been invaluable partners. A special thank you to Susan Rushing for so honestly sharing her knowledge and intuitive guidance with me.

      Preface

      From a very young age I was able to see, hear, sense and feel things that others could not. Unaware of the importance that these abilities were to play in my life, I pursued a career as a project manager in the video game industry. After years of enjoying a very successful career, my husband, Carlos, and I decided to start a family. A health crisis that followed the birth of my son triggered a profound spiritual awakening that changed my life. This is my story…

      Introduction

      If someone had told me that my life would turn upside down after the birth of my son and that my understanding of who I am would then change drastically, I wouldn’t have believed them. I’m not talking about the change that comes with becoming a mother. What I’m talking about is a seismic shift, the kind that could change the tilt of the Earth’s axis. But we’re not talking about the Earth. We’re talking about me.

      This was a change that was so profound it has left me struggling to regain my health. It made me curse my life on a daily basis and cry with regularity. It brought into my life the deepest guilt and the most intense resentment, and made it almost unbearable and unlivable.

      During that time of my life, I lived in my head, in an attempt to find solutions and silver bullets - always praying, pleading and negotiating. I have a Masters degree and intense intellectual horsepower, but all I could think about was finding the easiest job possible. I completely gave up on my career.

      Every day was a marathon of survival. When I wasn’t surfing the Internet in search of solutions, reasons and answers, keeping it ‘together’ was the only thing I could focus on. The chaos inside of me was more than I could handle so I adhered to a strict routine. I awoke as if I had not slept. I went to work exhausted and came home even more exhausted. I spent weekends on the couch overcome with exhaustion. I became the soccer mom who sat in the car and the hockey mom who was focused, not on the game, but on identifying the nearest exit should a panic attack come on. I was a master of excuse. Eventually, I became a ‘No’ person.

      Throughout this ordeal, I carried intense anger that made me vibrate inside. There were days during which it felt as if acid was coursing through my veins, burning through every cell in my body, melting me into nothing. It was the kind of anger that makes you imagine things in your head both day and night. On any given day, there were more negative mental movies played in my head than Bollywood could produce in an entire year. All day long, I would ask, Why me?

      This seismic shift began with my first and only pregnancy. I don’t blame the pregnancy for all of my ills, although I once did. I don’t blame God or my family, although I once did. The ‘blame game’ stopped when I awoke and realized that it was I who had done all of this to myself. It was I who had lost touch with who I was and what I wanted out of my life. But, most of all, I had lost my way spiritually. As I spiraled out of control, God kept trying to get my attention. Unfortunately, I was so absorbed in my own misery that I ignored the initial messages – my feelings. I swallowed my anger and held back my tears.

      Eventually, the messages became more obvious and more intense. Waking up to God pounding on my spiritual door was a painful blessing. It made me question the world around me. It made me question myself, who I am, what I believe in, what I do for a living and how I relate to others. Walking through this new, muddy spiritual path opened my eyes to owning up to the life that I really wanted to live. It reconnected me to my own beliefs and values. It forced me to challenge my fear of death, confront loneliness, experience humility and demolish my ego. It made me take personal responsibility for my life, what I wanted and how I felt.

      I learned how to read the pain of others and how to protect myself from it. I learned how to see myself in the reflection of the world around me. I had to learn how to listen to my body, my heart and the angelic realm. Most importantly, it showed me a new paradigm for personal care that I am here to pass along to you.

      Along this journey, I learned about homeopathy, spiritual healing, medical intuition and even psychic phenomena. I also learned about the perils of processed food and how to use food as medicine. I learned to be patient, and to recognize and value the complexity of the emotional experience. My journey has opened my heart to the Universe and has blessed me in ways that I never could have imagined. It has shown me that I am incredibly strong and resilient. It seemed that God wanted to show me everything - all at once. I wish I had listened sooner.

      The journey I’m about to share with you may sound familiar. You may see yourself in my experiences. Don’t ignore this. If you’re reading this book, its because something’s not right in your life and you’re looking for answers. You’re probably hoping to find some kind of silver bullet on the pages you’re about to read. You won’t find one.

      The path I’ve taken is a beautiful marriage that exists between allopathic medicine (the practice of conventional medicine), alternative medicine (any healing practice that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine) and metaphysics (the world of psychics, mediums, and healers). By no means is it perfect, but I’m healthier than I’ve ever been and I have a multitude of tools with which to continue to heal.

      I’m here to tell you that, like anything else in life, health is a journey that is life-long and, in its various states throughout our lives, there are gifts of learning. Health is physical, emotional and spiritual – all at the same time. You can’t look at one without looking at the others. And, just as health is made up of these elements, so too must be the solutions we seek to restore and maintain until our time is up.

      Setting the Stage

      While I was growing up, I always thought of myself as a healthy individual. But, in reality, that was a long way from the truth. By the fourth grade, I had started to develop allergies and chronic rhinitis. I’m not talking about standard hay fever. My allergies became so severe that, whenever my dad mowed the lawn, my mother had to seal the doors and windows inside the house so that I could breathe. For two years, I received allergy shots every single week, just to keep the situation under control.

      In addition to allergies, I experienced periodic, unexplained tummy troubles. Sometimes I would awaken in the middle of the night with excruciating pain in my lower abdomen. I was known for my extensive belching and flatulence. That can be very funny when you’re a child, but not so funny when you’re 40.

      Despite these issues, I considered myself to be rather fortunate at that time in my life. I had lost a dear friend at a very young age to brain cancer. As far as I was concerned, my problems were relatively minor.

      Just as I was entering puberty, a small cyst appeared on my left breast. Around that time, I began to menstruate, but only once or twice a year. Looking back, these were obvious signs that all was not well with my hormones. This should have attracted my attention. But, it didn’t. I wasn’t at all worried or disappointed that I wasn’t bleeding every month. Like some young women, I viewed my menstrual period as a curse.

      Emotionally, I was highly sensitive. But I hid my sensitivity behind a façade of toughness and the occasional episode of explosive anger. I bottled it up as much as possible, but sometimes it would spill over. I often stopped myself from crying, not wanting to give anyone the satisfaction of seeing me in what I considered to be a position of weakness. When I was angry, I would literally grit my teeth and swallow those feelings.

      Spiritually, I felt abandoned by God. I felt no connection to the Catholic faith in which I was being raised. I simply couldn’t connect with a belief system that preached Love on one hand, while it threatened me with Hell on the other.

      As I progressed through my teens, I chose to block my sense of compassion and empathy. Of course, I felt these things, but I would suppress them as quickly as they surfaced. I remember feeling an overwhelming sense that, if I gave in to these emotions, I would fall apart, or I would be viewed by others as weak and be taken advantage of.

      I kept my friends at a safe distance. I never allowed myself to get too close to them in case the friendship ended or I was rejected in some way. To this day, I don’t know why my emotional fabric was woven this way. I don’t remember any major event in my life that would have the magnitude to shape every one of my close relationships. All I know is that the experience of feeling ‘soft’ emotions, such as compassion, empathy or sympathy, completely overwhelmed me.

      My reluctance to express or acknowledge emotions certainly didn’t reflect the family in which I was raised. I grew up in a typical Portuguese household. It was passionate, loud, emotional and glued together by very strong beliefs and values. My family is filled with love, passion and lots of hot-blooded drama. The love and passion were great for a sensitive and emotional kid like me. There was never any doubt in my mind that my parents cared for me. I felt loved. I was loved.

      But the drama wasn’t good for me. My mind couldn’t distinguish between what was good drama and what was bad drama. My anxiety engine would rev up in the presence of a light-hearted debate in the same way that it would rev up around a full-blown argument. I was highly in tune with the emotions of those around me. Depending upon the energy in the room, my emotions would ascend and descend like

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