A letter from one of my clients
“I met Sujati one fine morning in November 2014 at a breakfast conference. She gave her hello, a 1-minute, 30-second presentation during which she offered us a late fall special “for people who were apprehensive about the approaching winter…” Since I’m allergic to the cold (severe hives warranting having an EpiPen on me at all times) and have seasonal depression, I figured this must be for me. 🙂
After a three or four-minute conversation, I get involved with this woman I don’t know… My intuition strongly dictated that this was THE thing to do despite my really low finances… I didn’t really see how I would be able to pay her… ( The money for this came exactly when I needed it…)
“I knew roughly when I first became allergic to the cold,
and I could relate to one event that involved both the cold and great pain: my father’s funeral.
However, I could not understand why my response to this event was to create a severe allergy…
Sujati suggested that I go and investigate this with the help of tapping (EFT), and I discovered that I needed to hear an “I love you” from my father. Alas, although he had demonstrated it to me many times, he had never been able to verbalize it. He belonged to a time when fathers did not say such things… And his death put an end to this quest… He would never again have the chance to give me this simple gift that I desperately needed…
With her guidance, Sujati led me to build a new scenario… We made a new memory and anchored it well in my personal history… So I “remember” very well that noon of January 18, 1994, when he came to my house for dinner, and over a box of Laura Secord chocolates, he told me how much he loved me and how proud he was of me…
It was so simple, so quick, so “ordinary”… Well, the result was spectacular… I had no more reaction to the cold… No more redness, swelling, or scratching for thirty minutes when I came in from outside…
It was so surprising, so unexpected that I didn’t believe it. I didn’t dare talk about it and affirm this result… I told myself it would come back, that it was because our December 2014 wasn’t cold enough… Then on December 26, while taking a walk, all of a sudden, BOOM, the allergy came back on the left side of my face…. I go inside and think for a bit. I remember that this morning we looked at pictures and I found this one, at my wedding, that day when my father’s wife was telling him to tell me that “I love you”… And he, holding me by the shoulders, looking at me intensely, tears in his eyes… Unable to pronounce those simple words… So, I said them to him…
Seeing this picture again brought me back to my protection reflex and, therefore, my allergy… I became aware of it, so I replayed the movie of that day…
We are on September 17, 1994, and my father takes me by the shoulder; I am in a white dress, a wedding dress; he is so proud of me, he has tears in his eyes and says to me, “I love you, my daughter… “.
I placed this photo (sheila’s note: scenario or scene is a better word than photo in this context) in plain view inside of me…
“We can’t complain that our January 2015 was not cold enough for our taste in the Laurentians… The average must have been minus thirty thousand degrees… Well, of my allergy to the cold… No more trace…
It’s over, well over, I’m free of this hindrance.
And here I am only telling you about the work we did in our first session… There were two more sessions during which we released two other issues blocking me in my life… I am so, so grateful…
Thank you, Sujati; thank you so much for your warm welcome, your simplicity, your smile, your true love and your openness… Thank you, XXX”
—Danielle Hébert
