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Your Own Uniqueness.

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Face Forward Y.O.U. is about shoring up your confidence, giving yourself permission to take a risk, to be more fully yourself.

Here, it’s about beating the odds, not being a statistic, and filling into your life what has been missing.

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11 Things About Michele …

 

1. What was your first moment of ‘beyond 3d normal awakening’?

My first moment of ‘beyond 3d normal awakening’ came in small increments that glimmer as turning points in my awakening consciousness.  There was a sense of remembering something very precious and KNOWN to me. These times of deep remembering range from when:

In junior high my symbol REACH joined my on my life journey as she practically danced out of the tip of my pen and into my world.

In college a dear friend and I merged consciousness beyond our space time reality and remembered truth together, synergistically.

Post my 2^nd H&N surgery, after they removed all my right facial nerves, and much of the inside of my lower right face and neck a dear friend came and share my angels with me, she help me remember I am blessed.

Facing dying young and beautiful or sacrificing my smile for a glimmer of a hope, my Thrive Drive engaged and I planted a stake claiming – I live until I die, no more dying to live.

2. Who is your favourite teacher, book and movie?

Florence Shinn (very hard to answer because about 10+ folks were getting universal download to proliferate at once in the early 1900s, as is happening again today.)

Book – Success Principles and Master Key System.  But I read about 4 books a month and love so many…

Movie – Pathfinder, Dragon Slayer (big fan of early Matrix and Lord of the Rings also I Love LOVE so many many romances)

3. What’s the strangest experience you’ve ever had?

In my second head and neck operation where the doctors had surgically removed all of the branches of my right facial nerves, having first sliced me open from the middle of my neck to the top of my skull and peeled away my face from my bone.

The next morning, I awoke in the ICU to find two fellows leaning over me. “We are ready to put that gold weight into your eyelid to help it close.” I looked at them confused. Was I imagining it or was my eye closing?

My husband, Dwayne walked into the ICU just then. He saw that I looked concerned. “What’s going on?” he asked.

“We are going to perform a minor surgery on your wife to insert the gold weight, which will help her eye close. It is very minor and we will not be using the OR, just a small patient’s room we use for minor procedures.”

Dwayne looked deeply into my eyes and we communicated silently. He said, “Blink, honey.” I looked back at him and blinked my misting eyes.

He smiled, “I thought I saw your eye blinking yesterday.” “Me too,” I chimed in, glad he could read me so well and that I was not dreaming. My eye could still close!

That was something, at least … The fellow leaned forward. “Show me,” he said. I closed my eye. He looked somewhat surprised. He said, “Close them again.” I did. “Hold it closed.” I did.

He, being a doctor of Western medicine, said, “Don’t get your hopes up. It will stop working; it’s just a matter of time. You would be better off just letting us do it now. Having an unblinking eye is no fun.”

Dwayne and I exchanged glances and silently agreed, “I’ll take that chance. Thanks, anyway.” The miracle was that my eye was closing. It was not blinking like the other side but it closed and it stayed closed enough for me to go to sleep. The doctors were amazed.

Maybe I had some surprises up my sleeve yet. They had been so ready to slit open my eyelid and shove a little gold weight in there, I wondered, how much harder would that little weight have made it for me to keep my eye open? But thankfully, my eye was closing and still does over 16 years later.

My paralyzed face has been miraculous. From the first it did what it was not supposed to be able to do. My eye blinked when they said it was not supposed to. There were no nerves left controlling the closure. Nonetheless I blink and have for many years. On top of that little miracle, one of my five facial nerves regenerated. Can you believe it? It grew back from nothing. Although diagnosed to be paralyzed forever, my face now moves. In my unique lopsided way, I grin, even smile. Life and nature with its tenacious spirit will always surprise you. Please let it delight you with its cleverness. Allow the wonder in.

4. What’s one interesting thing we do not know about you yet?

The news of my son miracle son Malachi was a bit of a drama. The day I missed my period I knew immediately. I felt it in my gut; I was pregnant. I was on my way from NY to DC to visit my sister Nikki with our dearest friend, Dawn.

When we arrived I did not even let us get comfortable. I made everyone run to the drugstore to get an early pregnancy test. Nikki and I stood in her bathroom staring at the test stick, watching the plus sign growing clearer. It was confirmed, I was pregnant. This was a major deal. I was overjoyed though I knew Dwayne was going to freak out.

The most important thing to him is that I live on. I knew he was going to worry. The doctors told me not to have a second child. The risk of pregnancy increased the risk of the return of any latent cancer. I was so devastated by the news, not to have another child that I nearly collapsed into a puddle of tears on a New York City sidewalk.

Then six years into health, I was holding another life in my hands. For me there was no question. It was a fact that I was having a child. There was no other decision possible. Those who loved me could feel my fiery determination but they were afraid for my life.

On the ride home Dawn and I talked soulfully, as we have done many times throughout our lives. I told her about how there was no choice for me, in all honesty my arms ached to hold my baby.

We had wanted a baby so badly that we were planning to go to India that January to arrange for a surrogate to carry our child.

Well, life threw us a curveball. Now the child would be born of me. By the time I returned home I felt cleansed and sure. We were welcoming a new baby into this world.

The pregnancy went well and for most of it I was told that the baby was a girl. In my very fiber I knew that this child as a BOY, no matter what anyone said! There was no way to convince me any differently.

I still laugh to think of Dwayne talking himself blue in the face, trying to get me to accept that the baby was a girl. I would grin patiently and just reply, “Dwayne just be ready to run after your son, Malachi.”

I finally had agreed with Dwayne that if the seven month scan showed the baby was a girl, I would accept it. I would welcome our daughter Grace to the world.

So when the technician said “it’s a girl” during that scan I was just starting to say, Welcome sweet baby girl, Grace, we love you. Then I heard a squeak of surprise from the technician “Oh, oh, oh, we have a boy here!”

Again, I was reminded to trust my intuition. Malachi arrived with his eyes open, voracious for life. We welcomed him with profound joy. Malachi’s birth gave reason to everything that came before him and shared with me the reward of intuitive risk.

5. What do you feel your true life purpose to be?

We are living under a Quadruple D threat. Distraction is leading us to Diabetes, Dependence and Depression.  Thriving is all about Y.O.U. Your Own Uniqueness, the seed of excellence you came here programmed with.  You have a divine design an amazing light of Your Own Uniqueness to Shine. I am a thrive guide to get back into the flow of divine design and SHINE!  It’s my job to remind you that IT’S TIME TO THRIVE.

6. What’s your favourite animal?

Dog ( We have a toy poodle Chi Chi)  and a unicorn!

7. What’s your favourite consciousness or energy ‘exercise’ that helps you stay connected, grounded and ‘tuned in’ in a good way?

Grounding and running energy from earth and universe, breathwork, Ho’oponopono, mudra, song, symbol, alpha flow, scent, chakra alignment, going through super hero door ways, meditation, qi gong.  I basically surround myself energetically all day every day.

8. What’s your favourite music / song / musical artist?

Baroque classical/ Purcell: Dido and Aeneas & Jai Jadeesh: I Am Thine  / Ludivico Einaudi

9. What’s your favourite food?

Stewed oxtail, pigeon pea rice & sweet plantain

10. What excites your creative juices?

Nature, wind, waves and blue skies!  I cycle through out summer in nature and deeply connect with my element of wind.

11. What’s the one thing you’d like to “shamelessly self promote” here today?

My TEDx talk Engage Thrive Drive, my goal it gain 100,000 views over the next 16 months, please watch, like and share!