When the healer needs healing
By Rev. Margo Carrera -
Trance Therapist, founder of Vital Force Institute and Co-Founder of
The San Diego Community Wellness Center

This story is about when cancer came to visit our wellness center.  I was diagnosed with breast cancer in January 2002.  It was my own body that showed me where to find it.  New Years morning I awoke with a sore shoulder.  I started to massage my shoulder and the adjacent acupressure points when they led me right to my breast and a node that felt abnormal.  From then on there was a whirlwind of tests, choices to be made, and procedures to be done.

The first thing that hits you is FEAR.  I was very lucky, the same day I found out that I had cancer, was the same day I had an appointment to see my teacher, Rita Rivera, a Toltec Master teacher.  She immediately had me face all my FEARS regarding death, illness, and cancer.  What a major difference that makes.  When you clear up all the lies we have been told about cancer and death, Cancer, looses it’s massive energy and just becomes another illness to recover from.  Cancer became just a dis-ease like any other disease.  Do you remember when people died from the flu?  Cancer does not equal death, nor is it a death sentence.  It really is a gift.  A time to really take a look at your life.  It stops you (dead) in your tracks so that you have to look at your life.  You have to focus on yourself, not others.

Healers are so focused on other people’s needs that they loose sight of their own needs.  I know I did and that is what brought me to this Journey.  It has been one of my greatest gifts in this lifetime.  How? You ask.

It has taught me to truly appreciate my body and all that it is capable of doing.  To be more in touch with my own body and truly become aware of its needs. To love and nurture myself as I nurture my family and clients.  It has taught me to look closely at my life and analyze that which was not serving me, release it, and move on to make new choices.  I learned that I required more joy in my life.  I learned to live each day as if there were no tomorrow.  To heal all relationships as if it were your last chance to make things right between you and your loved ones.  The list goes on and on.  It could fill a book.  It will fill a book.

If you are suffering from a life threatening illness and feel that all is lost, think again, choose again.  Ask and you shall receive.  Ask to live and then watch what is brought forth for you.  Every opportunity for you to heal will reveal itself if you choose to see it.  Choose life.  

Oh yes, the last thing I learned from all this is that you can create heaven on earth you do not need to die to go to heaven.. 

 Come and Join me at the San Diego Community Wellness Center. 
Tel: 760-635-1777. 
The San Diego Community Wellness Center is located at
 285 N. El Camino Real, Suite 211, Encinitas CA, 92024.