Breathing Easier

Dear Pat,

I am not sure if you remember me, but I came to hear you speak [last fall]. At the end, you asked if anyone wanted to go to lunch with you and I desperately did and yet had to decline because I had just spent the last bit of money we had to our name to buy your book (in fact, I had to borrow money to put into our account so the check I wrote for the CD wouldn’t bounce). I wanted to let you know that I was not just blowing you off and would have been delighted and honored to go to lunch with you if I had been able to afford it. I also am writing to let you know that my investment in your book and CD were so very worth every penny!

I have spent my entire life viewing my body as the enemy and hating it, hurting it, stuffing it, neglecting it, and totally cutting myself off from it. I blamed it for the sexual abuse I experienced as a child and the rapes in college, as well as for failing me over and over with severe asthma, fibromyalgia, migraines, PMS, depression, etc. Your book taught me something absolutely revolutionary that had never occurred to me before:

My body is me.

And your CD was crucial to possibly saving my life a few nights ago. I had arrived home the night before from being in the hospital with severe asthma and I still wasn’t stable. I was really struggling to breathe. I put your CD on and when it came to the part about thanking your lungs, I almost started to cry and instead of “fighting for every breath”, I simply cooperated with my lungs, expressing gratitude…and my breathing became easier.

You are inspirational, intuitive, and kind. Thanks again for your important work and open spirit!

Jennifer