Sunrise, Sunset: Memory Loss, Dementia, and the Hidden Gifts of Love and Healing

Early signs, memory loss, denial, and quiet knowing

I don't remember growing older. When did they? Sunrise, sunset 🌄 

My father sang this song at my wedding in 2013.  The Holidays can be rough because I am missing him.

❤️ When I was little, he was the first to take me to California to visit my grandmother. I moved to San Francisco as an adult  - these are photos when he visited me. Much later, he was diagnosed with 2 kinds of dementia. 

I had known for a while that he had memory issues. But when I visited him on Christmas several years ago, and saw the state of his home and the way he was living. He was in fast decline, so I moved him in with my family for the last years of his life.

😎You would not know it from the outside if you did not spend a lot of time with him. He had a built-in sense of humor and the air of an aging business mentor. Always full of ideas. His ideas helped me to change my work focus.  Now I have great success in my practice with early diagnosed clients and those with severe memory loss. One sign is failing the cognitive part of the senior driver's tests. Did you know there was such a thing? Nothing is more frustrating than losing your freedom to drive at the age of 78.

My professor, Dr. Jerry Alan Johnson, reminded me why we do this work.  As a Qigong Therapist, I can help.  Traditional Chinese medical qigong therapy is an ancient energetic medicine for helping all physical & mental health disharmonies.

I will pray that all hidden things be revealed to you in this current challenge, and that the Divine guide your path and open new doors for a speedy healing in your body, mind, spirit, life, and work mission.

Sometimes these sudden challenges represent new beginnings and are used as a way to awaken us to the even brighter and more powerful gifts. Often, we won’t understand the reasons why until much later.

Sunrise/Sunset relate to the 5 Phases/5 Elements in Traditional Chinese Medicine - the colors known as the 5 Pure lights relate to the 5 seasons  Winter, Spring, Summer, *Late Summer, and Fall