Author: Michelle Terrill Heath

When Andy’s and my business of making and selling welded bronze jewelry took off, we wanted to share our good fortune and had read about the concept of tithing. We discovered that receiving was a way to be generous. When Andy’s and my business of […]

Exploring our mountain forest and sledding was free. I had learned to practice yoga when I was a teenager and I taught my family, which cost no money. 1) Without purchasing power we looked to what was free in the world. 2) We learned to […]

Living on our land and in our housetruck was essentially free because we’d paid for it as we built it, not using credit. It was free but it also wasn’t finished. Getting home, securing minimum wage jobs and having no money was hard. We had […]

We used our credit cards to get home to Taos, New Mexico. When our business was thriving, we’d bought undeveloped land in a mountain forest. Andy had built a house on the back of a flatbed 1960 Ford truck and we’d parked it on the […]

Being loved by Andy showed me that money can be included as part of a generous person’s offerings. There were times that life required me to be sacrificial. I found that to be successful at being sacrificial, cheerfully giving something up for myself in order […]

When we embraced the biggest scope of treatments we set ourselves up for the biggest results. Have you ever had a muscle spasm? I’ve helped a lot of people work out painful muscle spasms by massaging them. It takes just the right touch. Too little […]

1) Know who is on your team and trust them. 2) Love “other people” but only trust them after they’ve earned that privilege. (Love many/trust few) 3) When with “other people” be ready to shut them down and walk away. “Other people” includes everybody who […]

We were fully immersed in Andy’s illness. Our everyday actions were all about getting through that day. For me, going to the Brazilian healer, called John of God, was an act in anguish. Nothing was working. We were fully immersed in Andy’s illness. Our everyday […]

While in Chicago, a family member suggested we see a hypnotist that she knew. In a surprising twist of fate, this hypnotist advertised that she had cured herself of Parkinson’s Disease through self hypnosis! Since there was no known cure for Parkinson’s and medical treatment […]

Eventually, he was able to have brain surgery, move freely again, go to the gym and hike with his family in the Himalaya mountains of India. None of this could have happened without his very smart and brave choice to WAIT instead of give up. […]