BeWitching Can't-Put-Down-Read
19 February, 2002 Reviewer: Ellie Winninghoff (mewmere@aol.com) from Seattle, Washington
Something deliciously mysterious and curious happened while I read this book, the story of medical diagnostic intuitive Robyn Welch's life. Unable to put it down, I found myself reading it late into the night. Next morning--or mornings--I was bursting with creativity: new insights and ways to deal with problems in my life. I am suddenly un-stuck.
I read this book because I've worked with Robyn, and she is amazing. A few months after a diagnosis of breast cancer, she asked what that "tissue" was in my other breast. How did she know? How indeed. In a second opinion, the doctors had found it too, and performed a wretched procedure to determine it was "calcification." They intended to "watch" it. Robyn zapped it. Gone. History.
Intrigued, I asked her if she could do anything about the painful lichen planus in my mouth. "When we get your body back into balance," she replied, "it will just disappear." A week later, the dentist couldn't find it. And two months later (after lots of work with Robyn), I noticed my period was coming back every 4 weeks instead of 3. Hmmm. Was this a result of "balance" in my system?
In terms of Robyn's work as a healer, this book is under-stated. So, too, the emotion and drama she must have experienced in a difficult but fascinating life. Born in Australia, she has also lived in Seattle, the Phillipines, London. Her mother died of cancer when she was 12, so she in effect became a mother herself. But she always had an affinity with animals, especially horses, and is an accomplished athlete (something which no doubt helped her power of concentration in terms of healing.) It turns out she was already using her psychic abilities before a terrible car accident that left her brain-damaged, unable to speak, with bad vision and a broken body and heart. But it was a turning point and she had a talk with God. "If you want me to heal others," she prayed, "please let me know in a manner that will be too strong for me to ignore. I will need to be able to diagnose their problems correctly. I would like to be able to heal as well as Jesus. Please."
She received the gift. But God didn't help pay her bills. She has had to sell houses and horses, pawn jewelry, even leave her children in Australia while she heeded God's call.
For people who haven't had a chance to work with her, she also tells you what she has learned by exploring --and conversing with--her patients' bodies. None of this surprises me anymore. I refer you two other books: The Heart's Code, by Paul Pearsall, which describes how patients who receive heart transplants also receive their donors' body memory; and Infinite Mind, by Valerie Hunt, who describes the science behind healers such as Robyn. Conversations With the Body is inspiring. A wake-up call to love.
