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    Living Wellness Today: One Woman's Search for Healing
    Living Wellness Today: One Woman's Search for Healing
    Living Wellness Today: One Woman's Search for Healing
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    Living Wellness Today: One Woman's Search for Healing

    By Annette Denton Livingston

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    Sit a while and have a cup of hot tea while reading about my lifes journey from having no hope to the fullness of life and years of enjoying family, friends, and pets. Perhaps you will be inspired to carry on with your own healing journey, despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

    Sometimes just reading about someone who has suffered the throngs of despair and somehow got out of it can be encouraging. In this day and age so many people are being diagnosed with serious problems. Have you looked into the face of a doctor who was saying to you Get your affairs in order? There is no cure The thought, no hope has a way of sinking in and taking one to depths unknown.

    Years before my diagnosis I had already begun a search for something that would make me feel better. I started with whole wheat bread and weight programs. Later I tried the Reams biological theory of ionization, vitamins and minerals and herbs, enemas and colonics, juicing and green drinks, fasting, raw foods and wheatgrass. Next I tried chiropractic, craniosacral therapy, ayurvedic medicine, massage, acupuncture, bad tasting teas, magnets, zappers, kombucha tea, ma rollers, citrine stones, music therapy, and emotional freedom technique. I found that the main therapies that work for me are reflexology, qigong, a macrobiotic eating plan and lifestyle, hypnosis, and prayer.

    Do you have a desire to feel better? Do you feel like life is passing you by? Would you like to have more fullness of life? Floating along downstream will only leave us washed up on the bank or swallowed up in the current. Remember that there are ways to help ourselves, whether we are strong and healthy or whether we have given up. There is always hope as long as there is breath.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJul 14, 2011
    ISBN9781463419820
    Living Wellness Today: One Woman's Search for Healing
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    Annette Denton Livingston

    Annette Denton Livingston lives in East Tennessee in the USA with her husband James Wallace Livingston, his dog, and her Kitty Cat. She is known as the Hat Lady, that woman from Nashville with two children who married the air traffic controller at Holston, whose wife died a year earlier and left him with three boys. She enjoys her home, her large family, and her many friends. As an inspirational writer, her column Thoughts from Annette was printed weekly in the Sullivan County News from January 1984 to September 1987. During the next three years, she was a missionary worker with Watch and Pray Ministries for the female inmates in the local jail with her friend Sister Patricia J. Goad. She has presented workshops on healthy living with whole foods and exercises for women, and has taught continuing education classes for the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork as an instructor with Lori Edwards Healing Arts and Communications. Annette shares her countryside home as a Living Wellness Retreat, out where the cows moo and at times you share the road with a tractor. One can walk and meditate in the woods under tall oak trees, enjoy sipping tea in her herb garden, or just while away the day on the back porch. A true southern lady, Annette reveals her trials and triumphs through surgery, leukemia, and no hope, to years of survival. She is a National Guild of Hypnotists Inc. Certified Hypnotist, an International Institute of Reflexology Certified Registered Reflexologist, a Kushi Institute Certified Macrobiotic Teacher and Counselor, and a Licensed Massage Therapist. As a Living Wellness coach, she reaches out with love, joy, and hope to share her thoughts on healing for the body, calming for the mind, and giving wings to the spirit.

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      Living Wellness Today - Annette Denton Livingston

      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Preface

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Chapter 1

      General Therapies

      Chapter 2

      Reflexology and Aromatherapy

      Chapter 3

      Qigong and Other Exercises

      Chapter 4

      Macrobiotic Eating Plan

      Chapter 5

      Hypnosis … Deep Breath In and Out

      Chapter 6

      Stepping Out

      Chapter 7

      Angels of Mercy

      Chapter 8

      Healing Prayer

      Healing Quotes

      Epilogue

      About the Author

      Appendix

      Dedicated

      To

      My friends

      Barbara B. McPeak,

      Sister Patricia J. Goad, and

      Ardis L. Nelson

      Thank you for your part in my healing journey.

      In Memory of

      our dear, precious

      Kushi Institute teacher

      Luchi Baranda

      July 12, 1942–September 24, 2008

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      "To die completely,

      a person must not only forget

      but be forgotten,

      and he who is not forgotten is not dead."

      ~ Samuel Butler

      Foreword

      "I have known Annette for twenty-five years and traveled over many mountains and through many valleys—spiritual, emotional, and literal—with her, going many places only God knew existed. In her search for healing, the journey has never been dull. Some of the ventures she made, I was only on the sidelines, giving of my deepest prayers and asking God’s protection when she would tell me of some of the wild things she planned to try. There were times we did not always agree and there were lots of things I was skeptical of, but we always stayed the best of friends. Sometimes after we prayed together about some things she was trying, she would stop them cold.

      Through it all, she has been a very giving person who loved to share her knowledge and experience in every walk of her life. Through times of wellness, through times of sickness, she has always wanted to reach out to others, whether in writing or dancing, wearing of hats or with just her smile. She has always felt a calling and need to write, so write she has—in inspirational columns and a few other books, this being her greatest venture so far. I think you will find in this book many interesting avenues for physical and spiritual healing. I share with her the hope that all who read this book will find inspiration and blessing.

      Twelve years ago, the doctors told her she had a terminal illness; all those who have prayed for her know beyond doubt that her being alive today and beyond is God’s miracle. This is that ‘whatever you have going for you, keep it up’ that her doctors have spoken of. I attribute any accomplishment of healing great or small as answer to prayer through the love, protection, and mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is worthy of all praise. Whether one uses medicine, herbs, gadgets, meditation, wellness rooms, reflexology, hypnosis, surgery, going barefoot in the grass, zappers, or anything man has come up with, God himself is the ultimate healer and giver of all life. It is He who turns yin to yang, and to Him be all the glory. Amen.

      ~Sister Patricia J. Goad, evangelist, retired licensed practical nurse, missionary worker, musician, and vocal soloist

      * * *

      When I read this book, it seemed I was either laughing or crying through most of it. Annette is an amazing woman. She has a love and zest for life that is evident in how she sees the beauty of small wonders every day and in her love for others. She is a great inspiration and blessing to me and, I know, to many. She has a gift of capturing joy even in the darkest of nights. She is a beautiful and godly woman, a gift to all who know her. I’m sure you will be inspired by reading her book.

      ~Sister Lisa Burton, assistant pastor, Praise Tabernacle House of Prayer, Rochester, Minnesota

      Preface

      I’m writing my story about the challenges and conflicts I have faced in my own life and the life-altering events I’ve witnessed and experienced. I want to share how these events have affected me as powerful, valuable, healing experiences. Many people have asked me, Have you tried wheatgrass, vitamin therapy, raw foods, juicing, etc.? Yes, I have tried most everything. Some were things my family and close friends thought were strange. They were usually the only ones who knew about many of the things I was doing.

      Some things I tried brought real answers and gave me health and strength. I want to make life easier for you. Spending an hour reading this book could save you a lifetime of searching. I’ll try to share my thoughts simply and clearly. We are all in this life together. My desire is to help you wherever you are in your walk of life. I pray you will find answers.

      Sit with me and have a cup of hot tea while reading about my life’s journey from having no hope to the fullness of life and years of enjoying family, friends, and pets. Perhaps you will be inspired to carry on with your own healing journey, despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

      Acknowledgments

      My gratitude goes to all my clients over the years for allowing me to practice the therapies I love. Special thanks to Patsy Meredith for giving me my first office, where I began as a reflexologist.

      I give thanks to Toby Pennington for telling me to go ahead and start my business even though my health wasn’t good. Thank you to my former business partner, the late Bill Young, who continued to say, Just one more day, Annette. Times got rough sometimes, and with that encouragement, I’m still doing … one more day.

      I deeply appreciate and thank all my teachers and counselors. I want to mention Phiya Kushi, the director of the Kushi Institute during my beginning stay; and my first Kushi Institute teachers: Michio Kushi, Alex Jack, Charles Millman, John Kozinski, Carry Wolf, and the late Luchi Baranda; as well as my beginning counselors Michael Rossoff and Lino Stanchich. A thank you goes out for the tireless work of Olaf Fisher, present executive director; Mirea Ellis, assistant director; and Larry and Judy MacKenney, program hosts of the Way to Health program.

      I thank Dr. William Kincaid, Dr. Robert Allen, and Dr. Koyamangalath Krishnan of Johnson City, Tennessee, for being my fine doctors. I honor my dear Dr. Ayalew Tefferi of Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, for holding me together so sweetly through the years and Nurse Debra Erwin for her smiles and encouragement.

      My deepest gratitude goes to my precious mother and daddy, Era Earl Goodall and Albert Otto Denton who have gone on. They did most everything right to guide me on this journey of life. I didn’t realize at the time of growing up that my home was as special as it was. I had experienced a rare childhood of Mother and Daddy loving us and each other and providing my brother and me with a wonderful Christian home.

      Much love and gratitude to my brother, Bobby Denton, his wife Millie, their daughter Cindy Fuller, and their son Al Denton, for their being with me through thick and thin. And also to my cousin Dianne Goodall Cozart for being there for me, laughing all the way and trying to keep me on a good path.

      My thanks to Helen Brown Smith, my dear friend from first grade, who has always been there, telling me I can do anything and believing I can. Thank you to Janis Carter Adcock and Martha Ragsdale Boshears for being early on dear friends and inspiration—and bless her heart, Sue Skaggs Lockhart for being my dear friend, who would say, Sure you can.

      Many thanks go to Linda Toth and the late Linda Lampley for being my friends through my years of learning who I was. My deep appreciation goes to my friends and neighbors: Pattie Marion, my jogging partner, and Lois Whitinger Gilbert for holding me up in times of trouble. And thanks to my friend Janet Blahey for good times, good food, and laughter.

      Thank you to my dear friend Terri James, a beautiful handmaiden of the Lord, for being my prayer warrior, fashion coordinator, and interior designer. Also, a thank you goes to my friend Karen Johnston for being with me on the phone and for her prayers. Heartfelt thanks to the radiant Lynn Reid of Canada for coming to be my friend.

      Thank you and blessings to Mary Houk and Shelley Kothe for sharing themselves with me and letting me lean on them as my dear friends. And thank you to Jane Belau, whose piano music at the Mayo Clinic transported me to realms beyond description when I was so far down.

      A blessing I give to Mark O’Connell for his prayers and for being my friend. Also, to David Criddle in Texas, thank you for being my friend and for your encouragement and prayers.

      Thank you to my macro friends Gale Jack and Phil Puls for standing by me and giving me strength and courage when I had none. And thank you to my friend Barbara Mende for laughs and hugs and to Vanda Carr for being my classmate and friend. Thank you, my friends Joanne Hawthorne and Gail Krumheuer, for encouraging me to

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