From Illness to Health:

the Path of the Heart

With Norma Schell, BSN, MA

Learn from sound practical exercises and understandings of our physical nature. Work through unease and relieve disease in ways natural to the body from one who learned by both experience and study.

Norma narrates her recovery from multiple sclerosis. However, her life is about the search for her inner voice, unfolding as a human being, her desired—but long forgotten—relationship with the spirit of nature. Multiple sclerosis was a gift from her body—a wake up call, an ultimatum. Her physical nature demanded to be heard or she would pay serious consequences.

As she became ill, her conditioned response to life intensified. In her rush to live and to achieve, she had become indifferent to the earth -- the origin of her air, water, food and shelter. She no longer related to the lay of the land or her relationship to it. She stubbornly ignored her aching body, while focusing on other agendas until her inmost fibers screamed with symptoms of illness. Norma became disconnected from her deep inner needs, alienated from her deepest truths and longings. Then she became deadened even to the demands of the outer world as her body turned numb. What she so desperately searched for was always within her and in nature--the ineffable element that resonates to the Creator. Discovery required her to leave her known, ordinary and familiar life to walk an unknown path
                                                            —the path of the heart.

Norma Schell, a former Registered Nurse, is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Nationally Registered Group Therapist and Nationally Certified Counselor. Her professional knowledge is enriched with universal principles of recovery and health gleaned from decades of work with professionals highly trained in Chinese medicine and exercise, Apache medicine and depth psychology. She is the author of Heal from the Heart, Odyssey Through Nature, Soul, and Recovery From Multiple Sclerosis.