Healings

“I’ve recently returned from taking treatment for alcohol abuse at the Lenair Technique Clinic in Newbury, Massachusetts. My co-workers, friends, and family have noticed such a change in me that I’ve been swamped by people wanting to know what on earth took place there. My problem is that I am not quite sure myself other that the fact that what ever it was worked!

This past November I awoke on the morning of my 53rd birthday with a tremendous hangover. I am not proud to say that this was no new condition for me but something was different this particular morning. I took the time to reflect upon my life and shamefully recounted that I had been drinking, getting drunk, and waking up with hangovers for 40 years.

Forty years of hard drinking certainly took its toll. A broken marriage, alienated from friends, and family, work place and relationship problems, almost killing myself in a car wreck, and all the other self destructive behaviors that go hand in hand with the nightmare of alcoholism.

Several years ago I developed “Inflamed Bowel Disease” which was later confirmed to be “Crohn’s Disease”, a most humiliating and weakening condition that I could only wish upon the likes of Osama Bin Laden and crew. Although stress has been proven to provoke Crohn’s, I have no doubt what so ever that I had been drinking myself to death.

Over the years, I had tried A.A. I know many people who have stopped drinking by attending their meetings. I have signed myself into a “30 day programme” in Buffalo N.Y. These programmes have helped many people but did not work for me.

I think the reason I was unsuccessful in these other formats may be because for seven years prior to getting on the fire department, I was a hospital orderly and worked with addicts in the hospital setting. Crossing the line from “keeper’ to being one of the “kept” was just too difficult for me.

Deciding to try once again to quit drinking, I was not very optimistic. After all I had tried everything hadn’t I ? For some reason I found myself on the internet looking for help when the web site for the “Lenair Technique” came up and I started reading. The more testimonials I read, the more I began to hope that maybe, just maybe there was still a chance for me.

I asked my wife Loretta to read some of the articles and see what she thought (she had been considering leaving me if I didn’t seek help). Knowing only too well the failed attempts of the past, Loretta, without hesitation, told me to look into the “Lenair Technique”.

My appointment booked, Loretta and I headed out for Massachusetts all the while me assuring my wife that if nothing else, we would make a nice vacation out of the trip. Even up to twenty minutes into my first session, I had serious doubts.

After that first twenty minutes however, something told me that this was no farce because after that time and ever since then all physical craving and desire for alcohol has been gone from me. I haven’t yet been able to explain it but thank God, it’s just gone!

After my first session, when Loretta and I went out to eat, I found that I was bothered just ever so slightly by the beer signs in the restaurant and the labels on the bottles at other tables. It wasn’t an urge to drink at all, just a nuisance-uncomfortable feeling if you will. I mentioned this to Ms. Lenair at my next session and by the time we finished that day’s treatment, the problem was gone.

Today, Loretta and I are happier and healthier than we’ve been for years. I was also given diet change recommendations and am practicing Yoga and Tai Chi.

I am not simply suggesting that people with a drinking problem look into The Lenair Technique, I am begging them to!

As a firefighter, I’ve cut your dead kids out of their wrecked cars finding an open bottle of booze or bag of pot inside the vehicle. I’ve extinguished the burning corpses of people who drank and drove and I’ve given futile first aid to people whose intestines had burst because they had become so weakened by alcohol.

If anyone reading this story feels the need by all means feel free to contact me but please don’t just take my word for any of this, read the web site and call the clinic. I’m thankful to God I did.”

“Dear Rhonda:
I am so deeply in awe of the results it is hard to describe how I feel, except to say for me it is a miracle. There is no overwhelming, uncontrollable need to drink. I am healing physically and more importantly, emotionally from more than twenty years of alcohol abuse.”

“My first appointment with Rhonda was May 3, 2005 and I have never been so grateful to anyone or anything in my whole life. Before I saw Rhonda, I was a mess. I used to go into a binging and purging cycle on Rum and cokes and food on a nightly basis. This went on for years. For the last year and a half, I was bulimic throughout the day as well. I was in a living hell. I desperately wanted help – I knew there was no way out on my own – it was a continuing downward spiral leading God knows where.

I prayed and prayed for help; my biggest fear was to be without food and alcohol and still be suffering so badly. I just didn’t have the energy or anything left in me to deal with the pain, or even fathom an exhausting battle with alcohol and an eating disorder. From my frustrating and disappointing experiences with M.D.’s for heath issues, I didn’t trust a ‘network of psychotherapists’ to address and help me with heal my disorders. There was too much to my whole tangled web of problems. I didn’t have the energy to give it everything I had and to not be in the hands of people who were capable of helping me. I would have been left too depleted, as I was on my last thread as it was.

In addition, I had many food sensitivities that tied into my eating disorder – many foods really affected me negatively. I had seen dieticians and GI specialists in the past that were of no help. What I prayed for was the help I needed that would really work, and that wouldn’t be a battle mentally and physically.

In the summer of 2004 I looked into whatever treatment I could find on-line. When I found Rhonda’s site, I was ready to give it a try. My husband would not buy the fact that it would work. Months passes, and in the Spring we tried to get our insurance company to cover the in-patient treatment, but the only one they would cover was a 30-day detox treatment facility. There was no way I was going to such a cold institutional setting. I could not understand how someone begging God for help on a regular basis could have her prayers gone unanswered.

Shortly thereafter, we decided to go to Rhonda. I feel so blessed just thinking of how far I’ve come in year. I truly feel my prayers have been answered; my experience was everything that I had asked for and then some. I have no desire to drink or binge or purge. Yeah, sometimes life is hard – but who said it would be easy? But at least these barriers have been removed and I can get on with my life.

I am no longer in ‘purgatory’. I feel so much stronger mentally and physically, and I am excited about what life brings my way. I am able to experience true happiness (not all the time, of course), but it gets better by the day. Every night when I go to sleep, I thank God and whoever else helped guide me to Rhonda. It has been truly a blessing. When I am in Rhonda’s presence, there is such a warm feeling in my heart and knowingness that every- thing is going to be alright.

I wish that everyone who is suffering from addictions would have the opportunity for this healing. It makes me sad to think of how many people are out there suffering and I wish they would find their way to Rhonda.

Not a day goes by that I don’t think of how grateful I am to Rhonda and Barry. I am also grateful for God’s ‘unanswered prayers’, as shortly thereafter I was brought to where I belonged.

Rhonda and Barry, thank you, thank you, thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
Blessings to you both,”