Carol Landrum
I came to wholistic healing in 1981, after being a school teacher for eleven years. In the process of taking a year off to nurture myself, I discovered my new career.
Consulting a wholistic therapist about a lifetime of allergy suffering, she recommended eliminating dairy, meat, wheat and sugar from my diet. I took her advice, and amazingly my allergies disappeared. To my delight, I also lost thirty unwanted pounds. Since I was brought up on meat, potatoes, dairy, sugar and canned food, eating a healthy vegetarian diet was completely foreign to me. I read up on different theories of nutrition. I took a natural foods cooking class, and in 1982 I went to Hippocrates Health Institute in Boston to do a three-month Health Ministry Program. There was no looking back after that.
Doors began to magically open, and I found myself flying from Montreal to San Diego to complete a Trager training. Then I was guided to enroll in a Master's program. I listened, and never returned to Montreal. I received a Masters Degree in Body Therapy and completed a Holistic Health Practitioner certification from IPSB, a massage school in Pacific Beach. This was the beginning of my career as a counselor and massage therapist.
The next door opened in 1984 when a friend handed me a brochure. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a Swiss psychiatrist who pioneered the hospice movement, was giving a five-day workshop in Oceanside. Again, my inner voice advised me to sign up. I'm happy I did, because what I learned in the workshop transformed my life. Elisabeth taught us that emotions want to move through the body, not be rationalized away. And she created a place for us to express our emotions safely and appropriately. This was the missing link in my healing journey. I took the facilitator training and learned how to share this technique with others.
For the next five years my priority was releasing my repressed emotions. Whenever anger, sadness and fear came up, I took care of them. I gave my feelings the time and attention they needed. I gave them permission to come out of their hiding places - in my belly, chest, neck, shoulders and throat - where I’d been storing them for most of my life. They flowed out. It wasn’t easy, but healing my emotional wounds was the greatest gift I could have given myself.
Helping people release their emotions became the focus of my counseling practice. It was clear that avoiding their anger, sadness and fear was at the root of my clients’ unhappiness. And over the next sixteen years I continued to learn other powerful modalities. I became certified in Hatha Yoga, Aura-Soma Color Healing, Interactive Guided Imagery and Quantum-Touch. I also do Soul Retrieval work. Each of these modalities helps my clients take responsibility for their health and wholeness.
In 1996 my husband Dan and I started Seva Deva, our Healing Center. It brings me joy to share this peaceful space with people, and support them as they do their healing work.
I have a blessed life. Every day I do what I love to do. And every day I give thanks and renew my intention to take care of myself; to nurture my relationship with Dan, the love of my life; to be of service; to care for our home and healing center, sacred gardens and precious cat, Pumpkin. My family has a special place in my heart. I’m grateful for my friends, clients and students. It's a rich, full, simple life. I have everything I need. I have love.
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