As a young teenager, Isabel was diagnosed with scoliosis. The doctors prescribed surgery to implant braces in her spine. These interventions and the long recovery period broke her mentally and emotionally. She could not process all the anxiety and insecurity that arose within her. She ended up developing severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Read more
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Amazawa – The Miracle of Just Being Me
For most of my life, I lived to please others, mostly strangers. It was a strange way to live and extremely painful. Then one day, I decided to attend a heart-opening retreat hosted by Kathy Zavada because I love her beautiful songs and her singing. At this retreat, for the first time, I tasted the sweet freedom of letting myself just be ME! It was miraculous!