I have been thinking for weeks of what I wanted to say in this introductory post to the Natural Healing Catagory of my blog.
I give quite a bit of detail about my healing journey in the various books I have written, and also allude to some of the healing in the introduction to this blog.
But in this post I would like to give a quick overview to how I have used Natural Healing to help me recover from some of the most horrific traumas earth life has to offer to the people who live here.
I was born under a chemical cloud in perhaps the most toxic place in America. Detroit Michigan recently won the prize as being the most obese city in America. No surprise to me. And I don’t believe that obesity has much to do with the poor diets of the people of my home state, although that does play a part. No, Detroit is toxicity hell for the people who live there because of the climate and the toxic cloud hovering over the city from the various industries in my home state, Detroit is enemy number one if you are looking for a variety of toxins with which to overwhelm your system.
Obesity is completely tied to chemical saturation, as the body manufactures fat and stores the various chemicals away from the important organs and attempts to keep them from harming the heart and brain by storing them in the fatty tissues of the body. As soon as toxic chemicals hit the blood stream, they are quickly shoved away from the heart and brain and stored in the fat cells.
My toxic body struggled mightily for years to push the chemicals out of the various channels of detoxification in the form of rashes, asthma, swollen glands, and a variety of illnesses. The enviromental poison was horrible and it compounded my mental and physical distress that was tied to being sexually assaulted from a very early age. Simply put, I was always sick, and for the first years of my life, I was always using drugs to deal with the illnesses. Ear Infection, sore throat, fever, rash, swollen glands, digestive distress etc etc….
My pediatrician also recomended to my mother that she start me on solid food when I was three WEEKS old and so from a very early age I was eating rice cereal, which has also been tied to food allergies. My mom also told me that I had horrifying reactions to my immunizations and by the age of seven I was such a mess she decided that she was going to make some changes in our home life.
Bless her heart, she did it and layed the foundation of healing that continues on today with all of her children and grandchildren.
She completely overhauled our diet, started grinding grains fresh, and baking. I was raised from the age of seven on wheat and beans, and although I continued to use Antibiotics for the many infections I was still plagued with, the healing at my core began the day my mother took charge of our health and threw all chemicals cleaners out of our home and started using Shaklee Cleaners for laundry and dishes.
This foundation of healing was key to me being able to overcome the toxins raging in my system.
I had my appendix out at the age of eleven, and my tonsils at the age of 17, and continued to have the ups and downs of a variety of illnesses, rashes, allergies, and asthma.
I had a nervous breakdown after the birth of my first baby, and hit bottom in 1990 when the powers that be forced me to take psychiatric meds for 14 months. At this time I was chemically saturated in terms of toxicity. I was just a big fat walking chemical mess.
During the past 18 years I have researched and found the keys to my own health and well being. And it was found in Natural Healing.
In the years since I was seven here is a roundup of the various healing modalities I have tried and used with much success:
Shaklee Cleaners, Vitamins, and Water Cleaning Systems
Sunrider Herbs
Young Living Essential Oils (I work a Young Living Distributorship now becuase I believe these products give you the most bang for your buck in terms of powerful healing)
Whole Foods
Nature’s Air Purifier (We have one of these air purifiers on each of the three levels of our home)
Chiropractic – I was highly influenced by the writings of Bernard Jensen
Iridology
Acupuncture
Chinese Medicine
Auryuvedic (Especially the mother baby program which I used after my last two babes were born)
Rolfing (Structural integration series at the Boulder Center)
Callahan Techniques – I actually worked Thought Field Therapy With Roger Callahan himself for one year using his phone system.
Books, videos, tapes, Compact Discs, pamplets, cleanses, experimenting with various diets, and always looking for answers to the distress in my mind and body.
Did it work?
Yes, I can safely say, all of the various things I have done over the years have played a part in the healing I have experienced.
Does everyone need to put out all that time and energy to heal what ails them?
No. A scripture comes to mind when thinking about this topic.
If is contained in the Doctrine and Covenants:
D & C 42:43 and it says:

“And whosoever among you are sick, and have not faith to be healed, but believe, shall be nourished with all tenderness, with herbs and mild food, and that not by the hand of an enemy.”

Jesus is the master healer, and for those that have the faith, he is the way, the source, and the means for healing troubled souls and damaged bodies.
I like to think that I had/have that sort of faith. In fact, just before I lost my mind in 1989, I asked for a blessing to completely heal me of all infirmities of mind and body. My bishop gave me this blessing, and I remember thinking that now I was healed, and nothing more needed to happen. But that was not the way that things worked out.
Shortly after that blessing, I found myself in the worst imaginable situation possible, locked away in a state mental hospital, being fed the most horrifying food, shot up with Haldol (an antipsychotic), and reeling from the trauma of being seperated from my three month old baby (breasts engorged, as we were forced to stop nursing) and when no one was looking, gang raped by four orderlies and then tossed into the seclusion room naked and alone.
As I experienced “healing” at the hand of doctors and psychiatric hospitals first hand, I had to wonder what had brought me to that point where I had lost all freedom of choice, all concept of self determination. It was truly the lowest point of my life.
Since that time I have often wondered about that Priesthood Blessing where I exercised all of the faith I had up to that point and then had the most horrifying experience of my life shortly after. What was the purpose in all that pain? Didn’t the blessing work? Why did God allow me to experience so much horror? Why didn’t he just heal me? Why did I have to have it so bad? Didn’t he understand that I had complete and total faith in Jesus Christ to heal me and then let me live a happy life without all of that physical and emotional distress?
As I look back on the past 18 years, all I can think is that Heavenly Father wanted me to learn HOW to take care of my body. He wanted me to have the growth experience of learning what was needful for my body and my mind, and knowing me perfectly as he does, he knew that I would never be motivated to learn these things for myself if I had perfect health and well being just handed to me on the proverbial silver platter.
He knew that if my health had been restored that the precious gift of healing would have been taken very much for granted. He knew that if I had given birth to perfectly healthy babies without doing the work of making sure those babies had been holistically built with proper nutrition, that I never would have bothered to learn the facts of what makes a healthy child.
Now, that does not mean that the Priesthood blessing was a fake or didn’t work. Perhaps the spirit of the blessing is that in the years following it, I had the desire to learn for myself the facts of how to make a healthy child in the womb, breastfeed it 100%, and remain mentally well enough to take good care of it without losing my mind. Perhaps the result of the blessing was that I had the gumption to search, learn, and look for myself, always experimenting, and always attempting to get the facts and then put those facts into action.
Perhaps the spirit and the fruit of the blessing was being given that extra measure of spirtual insight and power to know when something would be beneficial and helpful in my healing journey, and perhaps the Lord blessed me with an abundance of courage to live my life with the finger of scorn pointed firmly in my direction as the various naysayers in my life mocked and belittled what I was doing and how we were living.
Perhaps Heavenly Father in his infinite wisdom and generosity of spirit allowed our family to expience various money miracles which allowed us to purchase healing books, foods, herbs, substances, and the help of the many doctors, healers, and herbalists who have helped us with this family healing.
Perhaps he put us, through my husbands work, in this healing mecca of Boulder Colorado, because he knew it was the only place where our family would have the resources to find the people, products, and foods that enabled us to live this lifestyle in the most economically feasible way.
And just because the Priesthood Blessing where I specifically expressed a desire to be completely healed from my chronic ailments took 18 years to fully manifest, this does not mean that the dozens of blessings I have had over the past 18 years have not had miracles attached to them. I’ll mention one specifically.
First, I was going to sing in Sacrament Meeting, and was very ill with a sinus infection. I felt that I had done all in my power to heal the infection with herbs, and just could not get it to the place where I could sing. I asked Paul to assist in giving me a priesthood blessing. He did so, and I felt my body shift in energy. All of a sudden, my sinuses drained, I felt the pressure leave my eardrum, and I could hear myself talk (and sing). I went on to sing very well, and many people told me they felt the Holy Spirit while they listened. It was a gratifying experience.
I have had dozens of these types of healing miracles, when after I had done all in my power to be well, a deadline was approaching where I needed to perform in some way or another, and needed that extra bit of spiritual help from the Lord, and he has never left me hanging. Time after time after time I have had a blessing and through my Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ have experienced the miracle of new energy being infused into my body, clarity of thought when exhaustion overwhelmed, strength of body that was not my own, and extra spiritual protection and power when the need was great.
The most miraculous of these spiritual gifts have come during my births and the early postpartum time when the need was greatest.
To sum up this post:
God has given us the greatest blessing possible. He has given us the gift of intellect and free will to use our brains to make our lives as beautiful and whole as possible. I am a living testimony that even when our brains are muddled, overwhelmed, and not functioning properly we can overcome the damage and use our own personal determination and will to make things better for ourselves.
The most damaging part of my experiences with the Allopathic Doctors was the various death sentences they shoved my way:
“You should not have any more children”
“You are Manic Depressive and you will be on Lithium for the rest of your life”
“Learn to live with it”
“Regeneration of the brain is impossible”
“Once the liver is sick and toxic, nothing can be done to heal it”
“Mental illness is permanent”
“You got married too young and had a baby too quick and that is why all this happened”
“You will be dependent on our drugs, our way of living for the rest of your life”
And the worst one handed to me by the judge who oversaw my court case:
“You are forced to take our drugs!”
“Forced incarceration in our hospital”
For me, the miracle in my healing story has simply been that deep in my core, I never believed them when they handed down the various death sentences over the years. I knew I had the ability and the smarts to learn how to be well. I knew that I could be a mother to a large family and do a good and even excellent job at nurturing my children.
I knew that with Gods help I would be guided to know what would make me well, and I knew in my heart of hearts, that medicine and surgery was NOT the way for me to find health.
So I end this post the way I began…this is simply an overview of what I did to be well. I have suffered the sorts of traumas that cause the body to want to die, and put in place the types of toxic conditions that do indeed cause death. Food allergies have almost taken my life several times, and I have spent many hours wondering if I even wanted to stay here and live.
For me what true healing has brought is a desire to live life and live it more abundantly. To grasp the promise of my Savior that the purpose of his life was to give life and give it more abundantly.
The best way for me to honor him and this gift of healing that he has enabled and given is to simply live the best life I know how to live.
God Bless you in your healing, and may Heavens Blessing of health pour down on your head!
Jenny Hatch