Cathy
Harris Health Testimony
Many people ask me how did I get started as a "Natural and Holistic Health Healer" and "National Non-GMO Health and Wellness Expert". My response is read my health testimony below, which is also the preface of my first health book, "How To Take Control of Your Own Life: A Self-Help Guide To Becoming Healthier Over the Next 30 Days" (Series 3).
In the
movie, “The Wizard of Oz,” Dorothy had the power to go back home the entire
time. Just like Dorothy, you have the power to heal your body and save your own
life. I could have named my health testimony “The Eleventh Hour,” “Second
Chances,” “How To Save Your Ownself,” “The Power Within,” however, I chose
to name it "The
Awakening."
After
reading this testimony you must understand that doctors in this country are in
bed with the pharmaceutical industry and their only goal is to keep people sick
because it is “Big Business.” When you go into a doctor’s office, in the 2 to 5
minutes that they spend with you, their only goal is to write you a
prescription and that’s it. Then they will tell you to come back in one to two
weeks and chances are they will try to give you more medications.
But by then you will probably
experience some type of allergic reaction or side effect from the first
medication and before you know it – it’s 30 days later and you have been on 3
or 4 different medications….and the cycle continues…
The book
will educate you on successful steps to Eliminate Genetically
Modified/Engineered/Altered foods from your diet; How to rejuvenate and
re-energize your body through regular detoxification programs; How to clean up your
environment and recover the energy and vitality you had from 10 to 15 years
ago; How to bring down your numbers in 6 months (weight, cholesterol, blood
pressure, blood glucose, triglycerides, etc.); How to build a strong immune
system and reach your maximum level of health and enhance your quality of life.
After
reading my health testimony, there are three steps you must do ASAP to save
yourself and the ones that you truly love: 1) Gain more information by reading the
entire book as soon as possible; 2) Surround yourself with the natural and
holistic community, and 3) for many choose careers in natural and holistic
healing.
I don’t
care where you are at in your life at this time and what you are trying to
accomplish -- “You Can’t Be Wealthy if You
are Not Healthy” so always put your health first.
We all
have significant times in our lives that we will never forget. For me it was
2007, when both my daughters graduated with Master’s Degrees. This had to be
the most proudest moment of my life, next to giving birth to both of them.
However,
it was the same year that I had to say good-bye to two of my dearest friends. A
few months after I lost two of my best friends to cancer, I set out on a
journey to educate myself about the disease and how to stop it from taking
other people that I deeply cared about.
I
eventually discovered that most people had no idea what was going on when it
came to their health. Many of us push our own health problems to the
background and we engage in overwhelming activities in order to help and assist
others. But you can’t help others, unless you help your ownself, so your motto
should be “Self, Family and Community.”
During
the time when my friends died, I had no idea that my life too would become a
struggle to survive. When I turned 50 years old, it should have been the best
time of my life but my body gave out on me. It totally shut down and I
eventually became housebound and then bed-ridden.
My mom
had lived until the ripe old age of 82 and so had her mom. But why had I met
such a different fate? I thought about all the things I still wanted to do
with my life – the places I wanted to go, the people I wanted to see, and the
legacies I still wanted to leave to my grandkids and their kids. It was all now
too late for me, “I thought.”
The
thought of it all being over was very agonizing. I literally thought I was
dying. I knew that people had come back from illnesses and diseases and went on
to do great things with their lives but because the pain was so excruciating, I
knew it would not be my story.
My book
is not just about cancer but it’s about every disease and illness in America
and how diseases and illnesses are formed in the first place. After
my friend’s death, I soon learned that cancer deaths and many other diseases
are not only preventable but they are also curable.
After my
second friend died, I too fell ill. For weeks I had noticed a feeling of
sluggishness as my energy slowly drained from my body. I soon noticed I had
stopped going out of the house and was eventually becoming housebound.
At first I thought my energy decrease and feeling of sluggishness was about my
friends. I thought I was grieving! But after the New Year rolled around,
I knew it was much more than just grieving for my friends. I was
convinced that I was heading on some type of collision course with some type of
illness or disease, which would eventually take my life like my friends.
The pain
started off as a small uncomfortable pain that went from my lower back to my
stomach area down to my knees. Simple things such as going for my daily power
walks and mopping the floor became hard to do because of the back pain. Over
time, it had become an excruciating pain, which lasted for up to 5 to 6 hours a
day -- everyday.
Being a
person with a low tolerance for pain, I quickly sought out help from 6 doctors
including 2 specialists. For weeks, I pulled myself out of my home and went to
these doctors and specialists waiting to hear the bad news that it was too late
for me.
The daily pain was so bad, it did not matter if I stood up or laid down, there
was no stopping this excruciating pain. I could have easily called an ambulance
to be taken to the hospital but what good would that do? I was already
seeing all these health professionals, who were telling me over and over that I
was fine – that there was nothing wrong with me.
Everyday
when I got out of bed, my only goal was to get back in bed so during this time,
I almost became bed-ridden. Not only was I too dizzy to go for my daily walks
but getting in and out of the bathtub also proved to be a challenge. As the
pain continued to grow, the health professionals relayed to me that all my
tests – still proved negative for any type of illness or disease.
When the
last health professional, an OB GYN Specialist, stated that I was fine with no
signs of cancer or anything to be concerned about, I could have literally
jumped out of the chair because the pain was so terrible. I could not believe
it! I just wanted an answer to what was happening to me and my body.
After the
last doctor’s visit, I went home and really reevaluated what was happening to
me. I decided right then and there -- that if I was going to stop this pain
inside of me and save my life, then it would strictly be up to me. The medical
profession had failed me. Doctors with degrees and a lifetime of cures for
others could not figure out what was wrong with me. They could not stop the
excruciating pain! All I wanted was for the suffering to stop!
Next, I
sat down at the computer and went on Amazon.com, where I usually ordered books
to conduct research on certain topics that I wanted to know more
about. Had I not been such a good researcher, I know for a fact that I
probably would not be here today.
I then
ordered over 100 books at one sitting. I wanted answers! And I wanted them
fast – before it was too late. I wanted to save my life but I was not sure I
could do it. I ordered books on “How the Body Works; Exercising;
Nutrition; Raw Foods, Organic Foods, Processed Foods; Cancer; Diseases;
Parasites, Heavy Metals; Toxic Body, etc.” I also bought books from local
bookstores and checked out tons of health books from the health and fitness
section in several local community libraries.
I was on a race against time and if I did not act as soon as possible, it would
be too late for me. With the last bit of energy draining from my body, I knew I
was at the “eleventh hour” of my situation. So I shut down and read the books.
If the books could not tell me what to do, then I needed to prepare myself and
my family because my life would be over at the age of 50.
As I read
the books, I took breaks and went through all my personal belongings, got my will
in order and organized everything – in case these were the last days of my
life. I did not want to leave a mess for my daughters who lived up north, just
in case they had to come back to claim my body. At the time I ran a
business, which I had to close down until I recuperated.
While
reading the books the information was all the same. The first step the books
told me to do was to take myself off all processed foods (anything in boxes,
cans, packages, jars, etc.- any foods that have been altered) and eat only fresh,
raw, organic foods in as natural forms as possible – juiced, blended, or
steamed, especially green foods, which builds your body.
So I went
out and bought a juicer, blender and steamer. Then I learned how important it
is to eat antioxidants, which helps regenerate your cells, and decreases your
chances of coming down with cancer and other diseases. These are the blue,
purple, red, orange and yellow foods, which should also be eaten in as natural
forms as possible.
For a person who had eaten cooked foods her whole life, it was a hard
transition but I knew I had to do it to save my life. I found a neighborhood
farmer’s market and went “cold turkey” off all processed foods. I juiced,
blended or steamed at least 80% of what I ate daily.
The next
step after taking myself off processed foods was to start having at least 2 to
3 easy bowel movements everyday because “Your Health Begins in Your Colon.” I
quickly found out that if you have a toxic bowel, it could cause pain to show
up in any area of your body.
As I
looked in the mirror daily, I saw how dull my face looked – with no glow or
shine in it like it had in the past. My body had changed right before my eyes. My
gums and fingernails had turned totally black and a nurse, who I met in a
store, not a medical doctor, had commented by looking at them -- that I had
heavy metals in my body. As I read more about heavy metals in the body, it just
all made sense that that was one of the things that was happening to my body.
I also
read that pH balance meant that my body was really toxic and the only way to
get rid of the toxicity was to clean out my organs starting with your colon,
liver and kidneys, which are the detoxification organs of the entire
body.
I
realized that the body products (soaps, lotions, perfumes, etc.) and cleaning
products that I was using in my home was extremely toxic and the way that
toxins enters your body was through the air you breathe, the water you drink
and the food you eat.
I then realized that walking everyday and breathing in toxic car fumes, which
are also toxins that contains heavy metals, had also contributed to my body
shutting down so I found a park to walk in. To give me more workout options, I joined
a fitness gym again and realized when I sat in the sauna in the past, I had
always felt better afterwards. At that time I did not realize I was actually
releasing toxins from my body.
I learned
that I had been drinking the wrong type of water all these years and thought
back about the summer the doctor diagnosed me on 5 different occasions with
being dehydrated. Even though he told me I was dehydrated and that I was
drinking the wrong type of water, the doctor never told me what type to drink
because he did not know the answer.
I had to
self-diagnose my ownself and save my own life and eventually came to the
conclusion that I had "heavy metal poisoning", which also caused me to have daily
nose bleeds, chronic dehydration, chronic yeast overgrowth, and toxins, which
was mostly caused by eating Genetically Modified Organisms or GMOs in processed
foods, living in a toxic environment and putting toxic products on my body.
When I
cleaned up my diet and bought natural products to clean with and to use on my
body, the pain started subsiding and disappearing. I began to get more energy to
conduct even more research and I even started back walking again. I felt I
was on to something. It was like some type of “Awakening” and I was
actually healing my own body.
I realized
right then and there that my life would be forever changed because I realized something
that most people in this country will never realize, that doctors did not know
everything and had very little training or knowledge on health and nutrition.
After
taking the steps mentioned in the books that I read, which are also mentioned
in my health book, after 30 days the pain was down to a few minutes instead of
a few hours and the glow to my skin and fingernails returned slowly along with
my energy. Then I found a health food store with a good colon, liver, kidney and
heavy metal detox and took each detox 'back-to-back' for an entire year and the
rest is history.
Remember
a symptom can never disappear if you don’t remove the original cause. So I had
to get to the root of the pain. It just all made sense why my body shut down on
me at the age of 50. No one can get away with eating and drinking anything
they want just because it tastes good – even if they are young. Just like no
one can get away with using toxic cleaning or toxic body products in their
homes. Eventually there will be repercussions for your choices.
At some point we have to take responsibility for our health and well-being. But
you have to do it before your body shut down on you. You have to do it before
it is too late! Eventually it will all catch up to you and that is what
happened to me. I remembered how I had partied in my 20s, lived and worked in
toxic environments in my 30s and 40s, which all had contributed to my body
shutting down when I turned 50.
The
newfound information was a godsend to me. I was already exercising, but my new
way of eating has completely transformed my life, physically, mentally and
spiritually. For those of you who have totally put yourself in the hands of
your doctors or if you want to rejuvenate or renew your life – before it’s too
late, then you need to read my story, my health testimony, and take the 12
steps in the 12 chapters of my book.
Cathy Harris is an Empowerment and Motivational Speaker, Non-GMO Health
and Wellness Expert, Self-Publishing and Business Coach, and the author of over
26 non-fiction books, including 6 books on health. Her books covers topics on
family and community empowerment, health, youth and adult entrepreneurship,
writing/publishing, workplace discrimination (sexism, sexual harassment, sex
and race discrimination), whistleblowing, law enforcement, government, domestic
and international traveling, politics, media, beauty/self-esteem, car buying
and selling for women, aging/retirement - just to name a few. Her books
and articles are full of ‘content-rich’ material to help anyone get back into
the driver’s seat and are available at http://www.AngelsPress.com. She is available for seminars, workshops, webinars and coaching at http://www.CathyHarrisInternational.com
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