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Mid-morning on January 28th 2004, my tiny daughter was born at twenty-two weeks gestation. She weighed 530 grams- or one pound and two ounces in normal talk. In those tumultuous hours I was launched on a journey that would change my life.22 weeeks gestation. 530 grams or 1 lb. 2 oz.

She was a micro-preemie and was born as early as physicians are willing to try and save these babies. Because of the untimely arrival, she encountered just about all the complications that a preemie can. Her course was a difficult one. Not long after her birth we were advised to decide if we wanted her to live or die. Her prognosis was very bleak. We asked her to choose if she wanted to stay or go- and she chose to stay! We told her we would support her all the way.

Four-and-a-half months later she was released from the hospital and began a ephoch of time that was consumed with doctor and specialist visits. It seemed that they were all awaiting the worst; but I refused to be married to what was being predicted since the outcome was between her and her creator. I knew that no one but them had the answers, so I wanted to hold the space open for all possibility.

It was a year after she was born that I was introduced to Energy Kinesiology and knew that I would be pursuing it with vigor! It taught me that all things are possible and that our body-mind-spirit is intelligent enough to know how to heal with a little support. I had always felt the truth of this and became on fire with the good news of it all.

As instructed I worked diligently with my little daughter every day doing physical therapy, and began to notice a pattern. Every time I would go to the doctors they would shake their heads and say things like, "You have to know that no one expected her to do anywhere near this well." I would shake my head that I did indeed know that, and that I had always known that she would do well.

I learned that the body has a genius grid-work called reflexes. They are inherent in the body and are the foundation upon which all further movement is built. The natural en utero growth and birth of a baby affords this grid-work the supreme environment to develop. These reflexes must be present and integrated for advancement to be made. If missing they are easy to assess and integrate, and have a profound effect on motor development, intellect, and behavior.

As she learned to walk she was presenting a very hemiplegic pattern-or one sided walking. I had been to the physical therapist and we had set some goals for my daughter to achieve 80% of the time within the next several months. The Physical Therapist had given me a battery of exercises to do with her every day. I always felt good about seeing the physical therapist because it was finally a place where I could learn how to help the situation. At that particular juncture I had also recently learned about reflexes and felt strongly about their importance. I resonated with the idea that they were the building blocks innately placed in us by God that give us a foundation to grow and develop upon. It felt right to me that there had to be something before intentional movement to which that movement would be able to anchor. Otherwise there would just be random circuits floating around in the brain that would be accessed on a hit and miss premise. And I could see that happening. Sometimes my daughter would be able to accurately access movement, and sometimes she wouldn't. I knew this was the diving board for me to explore a new way of seeing and thinking. I needed to know for myself. I had, at that point, only been shown how to work with one reflex; and so I did that twice a day for the ensuing month, til we visited the physical therapist again. I was nervous that she would think me a slacker because I had not done the exercises she had given me to do. Instead, as she began to assess my daughter, she became astonished. Her walking had turned to 100% two-sided walking. Then the PT began checking off each and every goal that had been set for the upcoming months. We were both amazed-- her because somehow our little girl had changed so quickly, and I because even though I knew reflexes were important, I was surprised at how quickly and thoroughly the only one I knew had worked.

Makenna today!But walking was not all that one reflex changed. Our daughter was also having trouble with speech. She didn't do it. And her jaw was very stiff, making it difficult to manipulate for speaking. In that same month of time she began talking and constructing little sentences. I was thrilled, as were the specialists. I later learned that the one reflex I had learned to work with, and had employed that month, serves to unlock the joints in the whole body and allow for rotation and manipulation-including the jaw! So while it was clearly all about the ankles, knees, and hips being able to rotate and allow the movement that walking requires, it also allowed the fluid movement of the jaw, and speech followed right on its heels.

Since then I have learned many bodies of work to use in Energy and Neurokinesiology. I continue to work with our daughter and she has made unbelievable progress and is continuing to. I am so grateful to her for bringing me to a place of such enlightenment that blesses her life, my life, my family's life, and my whole community as I use it in my private practice.


I extend the invitation to all to allow a new paradigm and begin to incorporate it into what you already know and practice. It will change your life for good and bring you real and lasting results.

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