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THE WOMANS DAY ARTICLE

I had an inoperable tumor but….Hypnotherapy saved my life.

Carol Mitchell had been having some “very bad headaches, but nothing could have prepared her for the shocking diagnosis.”  She had an inoperable brain tumor. Feeling total devastation, the Brisbane mum was offered no hope by doctors, who told her to “go home and try and enjoy what’s left of your life”.

“It was horrific”, Carol tells Woman’s Day. The complete shock of being told you have cancer, let alone that nothing can be done.  "I remember pleading, saying “surely there must be someone in Australia who can operate on this”. They insisted that it was inoperable. I had a Grade 2 tumor and no amount of chemo or radiation was going to help me. To be honest, I felt quite abandoned by the medical profession. They left me with no hope.

“I felt like I was walking around with a time bomb in my head and I had many sleepless nights thinking about the kids growing up without me”

Family In Shock

The news of Carol’s shocking condition left her family-husband Stuart and children Matthew 12, and Chelsea, 9, heartbroken.

“My husband was in total shock” Carol 45, says “he’d stay up late at night and get up early in the morning and be on the internet researching all sorts of treatments for brain tumors, or alternative therapies. He’s very much into finding solutions. “we thought it best to be completely honest with the children. They were quite frightened and the news left them with nightmares. It was devastating, the thought of mum going away”.

Then a friend suggested Carol try hypnotherapy. She told her about Christine Poller, a Clinical Hypnotherapist. With nothing to lose, and desperate for any glimmer of hope, Carol telephoned.

“We connected straight away” Carol says. “At the end of the phone was this calm, reassuring voice. The first reassurance I’d been offered. I couldn’t wait to meet her”.

Mind Over Matter

At their first meeting, any notion of hypnotherapy involving a swinging watch or involuntary clucking like a chicken was put to rest.

“I just stressed to Carol that everyone has the ability to heal themselves ”Christine says. ”Hypnotherapy is about activating the subconscious mind, and putting the critical mind to one side” Christine says hypnotherapy is about removing the blocks that hold us back from getting well.  “Clinical hypnosis is about getting to the core of the problem, and removing those barriers. The critical mind tells you,  “No you can’t get well” .But the subconscious mind doesn’t doubt you can get well, so it doesn’t see it as a problem’.

After one session, Carol says, she could feel a change in herself. "I came away feeling so relaxed, calm and happy" she explains. “My husband could see it straight away. He said, ‘goodness look at you, what’s happened?  I just felt elated. “Christine never promised she could heal me, but promised to do all she could to help. She’d say, look you’re healing yourself, I’m just guiding you”. At the second session, Christine encouraged Carol to go up “into her head and have a look around”. “I know it sounds bizarre, but I went up into my head and I turned around  and faced the tumor”.

Carol says, “it was like a large grey mass and it was a really confronting experience. “I was then encouraged to shoot the tumor with healing light and I saw it disappear before my eyes. It was a very emotional session, but I woke feeling totally liberated”

All the while, Carol’s husband kept researching on the Net and felt compelled to take Carol to see leading brain surgeon Charles Teo. Carol was elated when she was told her once inoperable tumor was now operable. “The best chance we’ve got is if we can have it removed” Dr Teo urged. “I knew it was thanks to my sessions with Christine” Carol say’s.

By. Glen Williams…..