Like the picture to the left, our lives are like waterfalls. We are always moving and changing. Each day, we can encounter something that we hadn’t planned on. With our lives always in motion, do you find yourself afraid of the unknown? Are our lives taking us where we want? Sometime, we find our lives taking a turn that we are not pleased with. How do we handle it? How do we handle our disappointments from the past? Can we find peace in a world where we seem to have little control?  How do we handle those unexpected curves that life can give us?

On November 6, 2008, I was diagnosed with a dangerous stage four breast cancer. It was in my lymph nodes, liver and bones. A huge vein was feeding the tumor causing it to grow at a rapid rate while it carried the cancer throughout my body.

When they told me, I was alone. I immediately left for the elevator. On my way, my knees felt like they were going to buckle. By the time, I reached the main floor. I found peace with the news. I walked to my car with a smile in my heart. So what happened?

Was it an accident that I was able to do this? No it was not. Everything I learned about rebuilding your life after a tragedy came into play. I used the principles that I had written in a book and they worked beautifully.

I’ve read over 200 books on positive living, listened to numerous tapes, and attend courses, putting together the pieces on how the mind, body, and spirit works together. More important, I have learned how we program our mind to bring to us what we want? Did I do that with cancer? The answer is in articles that I have written or will write.

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Music heals and touches the spirit. It needs to be uplifting to do it. Enjoy this piece.

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale – The Power of Positive Thinking – Is a wonder book! I read the book when I was in my twenties and it still holds up to be one of the best book written on the subject. If you haven’t read it, I really suggest you do. Below is Will Smith’s take on the book.

Thoughts of Encouragement are always helpful. I would like to tell you a story of hope. It’s really a simple story. It was a dark day in my life when my mother died and our father left us. I was four and my world had just shifted into what felt like a deep, dark pit. I would wake up shaking, wondering what horrible thing was going to happen next. Every day brought additional pain and sorrow. I went from a happy-go-lucky child to feeling like I was a freak. Isolation, embarrassment, and the painful sense of loss all seemed to consume me. My siblings and I were told no one wanted the three of us.

Soon after our father left, my siblings were taken away, causing me to mourn for my sister and brother. All I wanted was to feel safe, loved, and wanted. Those I lived with always introduced me as the child with no parents. Their introduction always made me fell like I wasn’t a part of their family, just someone staying for a short period of time. It hurt deeply to see th looks in people’s faces. It was always mixed with sorrow and pity. I had a label over my head that often made me feel like an outcast.

I went into a deep spiritual depression at five and never came out of it until I was well into adulthood. It was a miracle that I found my way out. When It happened, I felt like it was an answer to my prayers. At the moment of realization, I received a vision that showed how deep the layers of scars were and how starved my spirit was for love. After this experience, I decided to find a way to permanently remove the layers of pain and sorrow. It became an obsession and for the first time in my life, I had a dream.

At the time of this vision, my circumstances were wonderful. I was in a healthy warm, loving environment. Yet, I couldn’t shake the depression and completely feel the love that was around me. My past refused to allow me to feel it. Not knowing where to start, I prayed and was guided first to books. I went in every direction that might teach me how to be free from my invisible prison that life had placed me in.

Today, I’m out of this prison and I’m free to be me. I wrote a book about my story so others would know it was possible to remove emotional scars and live a healthy, happy life. One of the books is called, “HOW TO REBUILD SHATTERED DREAMS.” At request, I started this blog to give out additional information. It took me some work to free myself and it took a combination of many laws and principles to do it.

I went from darkness into light. Without the vision to compare my life to, I would not have realized how dark my life was and how it stopped me from enjoying simple moments. To learn how to cut the chain, it made the experience very valuable to me. I deeply love and appreciate my struggles and tumbling into darkness. The rebuilding process is what has given me the greatest joy. Now, I know anything can happen in my life and I will be okay. I understand the tools and laws it takes to rebuild it any way I want.

My heart goes out to the youth of our world. Since my depression started when I was five, I also wrote a book for them. I took everything I learned about rebuilding your life and put it in a fictional fun story. My greatest desire was to reach out to them. I wanted them to know that they will be okay. My story to them is the “STONES’ QUEST” series.

To give you a synopsis of what I have learned, I will list it below:

• How to get affirmations to work perfectly for you.
• How to erase negative thoughts and replace them with what you want to have happen in your life.
• How to replace trauma emotionally or physically with peace, only taking the lessons you learned with you into the future.
• Learn the value of who you are and the feeling of success every day of your life.
• Learn how to bring what you truly want into your life and not what life has programmed you to expect.

I can go on, but I’ll stop here. The point is people have asked me to teach the principles so you can learn how to do this for yourself. So I’m working on the seminars that I will be holding on the Internet. I have a nine-page single spaced outline of information.

I hope to have the seminar ready to start by the middle of the summer. In the meantime, you can learn what the seminar will be like by reading my books. “HOW TO REBUILD SHATTERED DREAMS” is for the adults and the “STONES’ QUEST” series is for the ages ten to seventeen.

You can go here to learn more about the seminars and books. Click here!

I hope you find these Thoughts of Encouragement helpful.

Thoughts of Encouragement – I have something that I would like to add to my first article. You probably have read the article and wondered if it really was possible to remove emotional scars permanently.

Below, you will be able to read an testimonial from a doctor I have been working with. You might find it interesting. When I say that I can change your past, you have to really wonder if it is possible. I can remove emotional scars and rebuild your shattered dreams if you truly want to let them go.

“The work that LaRene does has a profound ability to help someone erase or reprogram misplaced subconscious beliefs systems. It does this as permanently as any method of technique that I have encountered thru my 28 years in the health field. I have seen it make profound changes in my patients, who have cleared memories, out of these tissues and cells but still keep getting retriggered or have a specific issue that keeps throwing them back into the same negative emotional pattern.

LaRene’s technique has been able to allow them to identify and remove this trigger or pattern out of their mental programs.The expression that I have heard repeatedly is, “It is gone, it is not there anymore. I really feel different than I did before- really different.” Time seems to have proven it’s value and even many months after the process they still report “that it is gone,” when asked for their evaluation of its effect on them.

One of the very nice things about her method is that it is very client directed and noninvasive. There is no suggestive nature to the work from the facilitator. The client is aware that they are in direct control of the process at all times and that the answers are coming from the and their mind. It is not a session of reliving an unpleasant experience or having to dredge up some ugly memory. It is gentle, very non-confrontational, but profoundly effective and permanent in its effect on the individual to change either emotional reaction to subconscious triggers and negative emotional patterns”

Dr. Randy Roberts – Soli-Wellness Center – Layton, Utah

This is one of his patients!

“LaRene’s book and seminars have been an incredible blessing in my life. With her help, I have been able to release trauma and pain that has affected not only my life but also the life of the ancestors. …Her approach is simple and profound.

Stefonia Lindsey, Wife, Mother

There are more!

“I read the book, How to Rebuild Shattered Dreams which is absolutely excellent. When I heard about the seminar, I wanted to find out all I could. LaRene had a really good presentation and I’m anxious to go back and clear out more scars. She has been blessed with a very special gift and can help almost anyone.”

Carole Winmill

If you are interested in more information, you can click here. You can purchase my books from the any of my websites. HOW TO REBUILD SHATTERED DREAMS is for adults. STONES’ QUEST series is for ages ten – seventeen. I put the principle it takes to rebuild shattered dreams in a fictional story. This is one of the reviews.

“I loved the book. I felt like I was an actual character in this book. I wish it could go on and on. It’s one of the best books I’ve read since the Harry Potter series.”
- Tyler Violette
Logan, UT

You can read more by clicking here.

I would really appreciate it if you would take a short survey telling me what you would really like to learn from a seminar. You can find it here!

We need fun that engages our spirits. If this is staged or not, it draws you in and you enjoy the moment with others. We need more moments of pure joy and fun in our lives. Look for them, they are truly all around us. If we aren’t looking for them, we pass them by and missing a great moment. Look at what you would have missed if you had arrived at the train station right after the dance. Enjoy:

I couldn't find a bowl of cherries that I liked.

Cancer is a life-altering experience. It’s a wonderful time to reflect on your life. Most of us will ask the questions like: What have I done with my life? What would I do differently, if I could do it over again? Is there more I want to accomplish? With life being so fragile, we start to look at the future differently. What do I want to do with the time I have left?
The questions above, we will usually ask ourselves, plus the question, why me? I left it out because it is the most negative thought you can have. When we are in timeout, we really need to think about our successes. Timeout is an expression that I use whenever I find myself sick or hurt and I can’t do a lot physically. During these moments, we get the opportunity to reflect on our lives.
I’ve been in timeout for four months and I’m appreciative of it. Before cancer, I was helping others with erasing past issues that they couldn’t get rid of on their own. Now, I can’t reach out to them. I miss it deeply. In the past, people would come in and leave with a smile on their face. At that instant, they weren’t sure if I had helped. They just knew that they felt differently. So I never truly saw how it affected their daily lives. With me being unable to help others, they are telling me how helpful I had been. They’re waiting for me to get better because they have other areas that they want help with.
We all have an impact on each other that we usually do not realize. The movie It’s a Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart is a perfect example. We can positively and negatively impact others. It’s a choice that we all make. The question you need to ask yourself: Am I like Mr. Potter who wants to control and take what he can without giving back? Taking every opportunity to twist it to my benefit?
Or are we the kind of person that Jimmy Stewart is like? A person with a caring heart, being patient and long suffering for the benefit of others. If you’re a good parent, you’ll feel this way. What about others around you?  What do they need, and have you seen it or ignored them?
Being stopped from really being around people gave me a new perspective on how we impact each other and ourselves. I’m grateful for the opportunity to witness it. Helping people is an art that many of us lose in the day-to-day world. So what makes it an art? There are questions that we need to be asking ourselves. What is our motivation in helping someone? Do we do it without expecting anything back? Do we do it for the praise of others? The person who does it without expecting anything back is the person who will find the most pleasure from giving to others.
With the economy going down, there are a lot of opportunities to reach out. Even if you are a person in need, I suggest you find someone who needs more help than you do. It’s in the true giving that you will find your pain eased and what you need. It might not come in the same hour, but it will come. If you have the attitude of gratefulness, it will come back bigger than you imagined.
When we truly give to others, it eases our pain, bringing great joy to our hearts. If you’re emotionally hurting, it’s the best painkiller you can take. Today, I have for the first time people all around me reaching out to lift my burden. I feel their prayers and the joy in their eyes to see they are helping me. It’s a different experience to see it from the person who needs help.
This is a scripture from the Bible that I like. It says: “Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.” Matt. 10:8. It’s the giving freely that brings the joy into our lives. It’s also important that we realize the areas that have been given to us. In other words, count how many things are good and right in your life and focus on them. What have you been given? So many times we forget and just focus on what we don’t have.
Sometimes, we feel like we have nothing to give. You need to fill your cup. This is one of the best ways to fill it: Visualize putting your arms around yourself. Sometimes, you need to hold yourself until you feel peace in your heart. Remember, you need to put your arms around yourself when you feel lonely, frustrated, or angry. It helps to melt away the negativity and bring you back to the positive emotions. When you are plugged into the positive, you will bring many wonderful experiences and opportunities into your life. You should never forget it.

If you want more information, you might want to purchase my book.

Self- help book

You are probably wondering what this blog is all about! Let me tell you.

Let me introduce myself. My name is LaRene Ellis and I have a active licensed real estate broker’s license. I took an hiatus from real estate to write novels. My first book was an fictional young adult Scf-Fi series.It’s about how four white Stones that rules a galaxy. They disappear allowing evil to take over. (Ages 10-17)

Then I wrote my story and how I learned to find a deep joy after I was abandoned at the age of four. Life taught me that a deep joy comes from making the right decisions when you’re faced with a tough trial. If everything in your life was away from you suddenly, do you know how to replace it with more? If you can say yes, don’t purchase buy the book: How To Rebuild Shattered Dream.

My first young adult book

Life always throws you a curve. In November 2008, I was diagnosed with HER-2/neu-Positive Breast Cancer, stage four. Ten years ago, they sent you home and tried to make you comfortable until you died. Now, they have new drugs that might help. The treatment at times has been hard. I found the steps in my book have keep me from becoming depressed and asking why me?

You lose your hair, nails and dignity. The pain from the chemo at times was unbearable. During one stage, I felt like I had my fingers stuck in a light socket for three weeks. It was here, I found that the principle in my book gave me a deep joy, when I applied them. Again, the statement is so true. When you are faced with hard times and you make the right decisions. You experience a deep joy.The trick is to know what is a right decision and I will tell you in my book.

The doctors have given me the okay to return to work. I will continue with the seminars that will teach you how to find a deep joy no matter what you have experienced in life. I’m not sure when I’m going to have it available on-line. If you sign up for an update email. I will tell you and I do not bombard you with emails everyday. Sigh up for updates and I’m looking forward to knowing you all better.

Below, I have some short videos. You can see testimonials from people and a Doctor. I created the videos before I had cancer and I was just learning how to be technical. It seems like a life time ago. If I looked at them now, I would probably shake my head with embarrassment. I’ve changed my approach, since the cancer. Until, I can change them.  You are welcome to click on the links below to see the different video and laugh at them:

Thoughts of Encouragement

I have a short video on anger. You can click on it below:

Anger – Thoughts of Encouragement

Self – esteem and self-love! Is is missing from your life. I have some interesting information for you. Click on the line below:

Self-esteem thoughts of encouragement

One of my favorite quotes! “Man is that he might have joy” This is why? Check out the video below:

Disappointments! I started my life out being devastated with disappointments. I learned some secrets to get them to work for you and not against you. Look at the video below:

You are welcome here! I hope you find some answers or discover a new world of healing.

LaRene Ellis

People have been talking about placing novels on the Internet. What do you think about it? Here is the beginning of a copyrighted and published novel for young adults ages 10-17. Read the first couple of pages and you tell me if you would rather read it on the Internet or in print form. I would like your comments. It starts:

The Journey Begins

“Timeout!” Jasper threw himself onto his bed. “I hate timeout!” He shouted while burying his head in his pillow. “I’m always the one who gets timeout! Buster never gets sent to his room. I think Mom likes him better than me. I’m seven years old. I’m not as young as he always treats me!” The pillow muffled his yells so he wouldn’t get in more trouble, but he quickly found it hard to breathe. Rolling over, he looked around his room. The fleet of models that decorated his room looked crisp and invincible, but they didn’t seem to care about his plight.

Reaching out, he pulled one of his favorite models off the shelf. It was a miniature Star Screamer that his father had given him only a few weeks ago. He had been really excited because it was a bigger model than the ones he had seen in the commercial center in town. It was about ten inches long with more details than his previous ones. It was surprisingly lightweight for its size, and if you touched a spot on the underbelly of the ship, the main bay doors would snap open. It had come with a small transport that could fit in the main bay, but it wasn’t in there now. Buster probably stole it, he thought to himself.

Right now, nothing would have made Jasper feel better than to see Buster grounded to his room for a week. Jasper ran his fingers over the sleek silver ship and swooshed it over his head a few times, wondering what it would take to have a different life than the one he had. Where they lived made it hard to have friends, and his best friend, Johnny, had moved away yesterday. Now he only had his brother and sister to play with, and there was no way he wanted to play with his brother. He and Buster didn’t always see things the same way.

“Now I won’t have any friends at all,” Jasper whispered to himself.
Today he was really feeling the pain of his loss. When his parents had moved out to the countryside, the idea of having lots of trees and grass seemed exciting. The only other family that lived within walking distance was Johnny’s. They had a small farm about a mile away. Jasper had met Johnny on the first morning he had walked out to the transport to go to school. Johnny had smiled at him with a face full of freckles, and the two boys became instant friends.

Living away from the city had seemed an adventure with Johnny. The two of them had their own secret world away from the other kids at school. Now he felt alone.

I wish Johnny’s father didn’t get a job transfer to the other planet. I’m going to miss him, he thought while he put the model back on the shelf. Johnny told him they would be moving closer to a military base. “He’ll be seeing the real thing. Star Screamers and Galaxy Creepers,” whispered Jasper.

Going back to his bed, he stared at the ceiling. Jasper threw his arm up over his eyes, trying not to cry. I miss my friend. I’ll never find anyone like Johnny, thought Jasper as a few tears escaped the corners of his eyes.

Suddenly he heard a strange voice whisper in his ear, “JASPER, I NEED YOU.”
Jasper sat up with a start, expecting to see someone in the room. There was no one. I must have imagined it, he thought, as he wiped his last tear with his sleeve. Dismissing the voice, Jasper allowed himself to fall onto his pillow.

When he put his arms over his eyes, he heard, “JASPER, I NEED YOU! HURRY! COME TO ME.”
This time Jasper jumped from his bed and called out. “Who are you?”
“A FRIEND,” the voice answered hypnotically. “I NEED YOU. I’M IN TROUBLE.”
“Where are you?” asked Jasper.
“I’M OUTSIDE. COME TO ME NOW. HURRY.”

Jasper ran to the window and plopped knee-first on the cushions and small pillows that were in the window seat. As he did, he felt his knee hit something hard. Jasper reached down and moved the pillows. He found his galactic atlas. He had left it there after giving up on his homework about the history of the Ellisarius Galaxy. Jasper picked up the book and tossed it to the floor. Rubbing his knee, he looked back out the window, searching for something.

It all seemed the same. They had a backyard with the meadow right behind it. He saw no one outside, so where did the voice come from? He surveyed the grove of trees that were behind the meadow and they stretched off into the distance.

The grove was the place Johnny and he had spent hours making up adventures about alien planets, moons and galaxies. Jasper was very familiar with the meadow and the grove, being it was their secret place to play. To see them, Jasper’s heart ached, and his anger flared in retaliation. He hated the meadow now. Clenching his fist, he thought, Why should I get timeout for being angry, anyway? No one cares that Johnny is gone.

Jasper was about to leave but decided to search the whole area behind his house again. Standing, he felt confused and embarrassed.  I’m hearing voices, he surmised. Jasper stepped back to leave when something caught his eye. Quickly, he leaped onto the pillows and pressed his nose up against the window.

Out of the sky came a flying object with fire and smoke shooting out the back. Jasper watched it plunge across his view, eclipsing the planet Suzair’s two moons. He gasped as he realized that the strange fireball was going to crash into or behind his grove of trees.

He held his breath as the burning object disappeared behind the grove. Plumes of dust and dirt from the impact rose high into the air. It had definitely been a ship. Jasper waited to see if the trees caught on fire. It was then he heard the voice again.

“JASPER, HURRY TO THE TREES. THEY ARE COMING! I NEED YOU NOW.”

Jasper was frozen, mesmerized by the scene. “JASPER!” Suddenly, the voice became his world. He felt consumed by peace and reassurance, and he knew that he had to move immediately.
He ran to his door, leaving the room. Swiftly, he moved down the stairs to the main floor and bolted for the back door, not giving a second thought to the fact that his mother, in the kitchen, would surely see him. At that moment, he didn’t care. Everything around him seemed to be blocked from his mind.

As luck would have it, he shot past her just as she opened up the door to the refrigerated pantry. As she dug around for something cold to drink for lunch, she happened to move a container that made a loud scraping sound. She never even heard her youngest son run through the kitchen and out the back door.
Outside the house, he knew instinctively where he was going and what he had to do. Keeping his eyes fixed on the smoke that was swirling behind the trees up into the sky, he entered the meadow.

Buster exited the shed in time to see Jasper cross the backyard. He seemed a little surprised to see his brother but said nothing. Buster figured Jasper had sweet-talked his mother into ending the timeout early. It never occurred to Buster that Jasper was outside without permission.

Now Jasper was out in the meadow. He searched for rocks and the stream that ran through the meadow. Jasper found the flow of water meandering in its shallow bed and stopped. He tried to slow his ragged breathing as he searched for his favorite place to leap across the water. The stream was not very wide at this place, but it was deceptively deep. He made the jump and was caught by a blinding white light. The glow totally surrounded and blocked his view.

“JASPER!” came the voice again. He heard, “THERE IS A WHITE STONE AT YOUR FEET. DO NOT STEP ON IT, BUT PICK IT UP. IT WILL PROTECT YOU FROM OUR ENEMIES.”

The light dissipated and he blinked a couple of times as a white Stone came into view. Without thought, he picked it up and slipped it into his pocket. Then he heard the voice urge him forward towards the grove of trees. For some reason, he felt that he would be safe there. Danger was starting to fill his heart.

With no memory of the white Stone, Jasper ran into the grove of trees. There, he stopped to catch his breath. Finding himself tired, Jasper leaned against a nearby tree, listening to his beloved grove of trees.
There’s something different, thought Jasper as his breathing became regular.

In the past, the trees housed a numerous amount of birds that at times seemed too noisy. Today there was total silence. It was so quiet he could almost hear his heart beating.

After a few deep breaths, he felt drawn to the crash site. He wanted to see for himself a spaceship. Leaving the tree, Jasper heard a twig snap behind him. Whirling around, he found himself alone. Slowly, he resumed walking. Again, he heard leaves crunching underneath someone’s feet behind him. Before he whirled around to see what caused the noise, Jasper felt a hand around his mouth. Then he felt someone’s body against his as he was jerked quickly over to a nearby tree.

Before he could comprehend what was happening to him, a cloak covered him. He felt someone’s body against his, pressing him against the tree trunk.

Here you go. This is about as much as you get into a blog page. Would you like to wait for the a next installment or would you prefer to just purchase the book. Click on the survery at the top of page. From you answers, I will continue or not having daily five pages. That is about what you can get on a blog page. Or you can purchase the book called, Stones’ Quest: In Search of its Master, here at this link for $19.95 + shipping. Also, you can leave me a comment.

I really want to know what you all think. Is the Internet the best place to hold a seminar? Is Google a good place to advertise for it? Would you rather hear about it from a news outlet? Does the Internet really work or is there a better form of media?

I dearly want to know what you think about these questions. Would you take a short survey and answer them? Before you do, let me tell you why I’m asking for your opinion. When I was four, I used to be so very happy. Then one day, someone came to the house and told us that our mother was dead. My father left the family, saying that no one wanted us. Shortly thereafter, I was split up from my siblings.

At the age of five, I fell into a deep depression, praying every time I went to bed that I would stop breathing. I wanted to leave this world. The Savior brought miracles in my life that kept me alive.

In the bible, it says all things are possible through Him. As an adult, I was in a safe, loving environment. Yet every morning, I woke up in fear. It never seemed to want to leave me.

I desired to be free of this prison. I didn’t trust people and I was so hurt from being betrayed. The word family was a bitter word to me. I had so much pain associated with it. It was hard for me to feel comfortable with my husband’s family because I didn’t trust people.

In my twenties, something happened that changed my life forever. For a split moment, as I felt the Savior’s arms around me, I saw the scars of emotional abuse that was inside of me. For that split moment, I felt His love for me. My spirit was so starved for love. I couldn’t feel anyone’s love because I had so many deep emotional scars.

After that moment, I became obsessed to learn how to remove the damage. I knew in my heart it was possible. I’m here today to say I have achieved my goal.

I do not wake up in the morning feeling blind fear. It took me until I was a first-time grandmother to do it. The reason it took me so long is because when I found something that worked, I wanted to know why it worked. What laws governed it that made it work? After I learned the laws, I watched it in other people’s lives. When I saw they received the same results, I knew I had found a true principle.

After ten years of being free, I became tired of watching strangers suffer. What I learned wasn’t something that I could explain in just a few moments, so I decided to write books on the subject. People were so taken by the possibilities that they have asked me to teach seminars.

Locally, I did. They wanted more information and I had it. I was so taken by how much I had learned over the years. I have a powerful testimony of prayer. It helped me to learn.

Today, I can permanently remove the scars from someone else’s life, even when they are victims of violent crimes. I had a lady come to me regarding a family member. They were terrified of being in a room with closed doors.

When they went to church, they had to sit next to the door with their hand on it. Something terrifying happened to them as a child and this blind fear wasn’t going away with age.

After spending an hour with me, the fear is permanently gone. They are free to enjoy life and not deal with ghosts from the past. I’m so grateful for my past, because it allowed me to free others from a prison of pain and fear. This is why I’m asking these questions. People who know me and those I have worked with want a seminar. I thought it might be great to have it online. Do you think it would work? Would you please take a survey? Click here.