Welcome to my website!

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

Let me introduce myself. My name is LaRene Ellis. I came into this life like everyone else. I wasn’t hatched but what happened afterward was different. I lost my parents and siblings. It was sad that I never was allowed to belong to a family. It changed my life and made me who I am today. A person full of hope and joy. It changed my life to where I help others get through their tough times to put a smile on their face.

My childhood was taken from me. It put me a deep depression at the age of four. Happiness was a foreign feeling. Out of it, I learned a simple recipe to live life with joy even during the challenge of breast cancer. In my book, How to Rebuild Shattered Dreams. I will give you a simple recipe that you can follow so you can be happy no matter what is happening in your life. You’ll learn to be in control.

What I learned helped when breast cancer knocked on my door. The recipe allowed me to feel joy and happiness through chemo and all the challenges you face. The experience made filled me with gratitude for my past. What I learned made it all worth while. The peace to know ‘I’m not afraid of the future and I’m not hiding my past. I enjoy the moment without baggage. It keeps me always in control.

On my website, My Journal - has stories in it about how I got started writing. You might find it interesting or numb. I don’t know. It’s hard to put yourself out there, when you’re really shy. If you knew me, you would know how hard this is. I do it because I have hope and I know how you can have it too.

Seminars - By request of my readers, this is what I started to do when I contracted Breast Cancer. It’s Her2/neu - Positive Breast Cancer at stage four. It is a vicious cancer that likes to move fast and it did. I had it in my liver and bones besides my breast. It’s out of my breast with 70% gone in liver after nine weeks. Now, they are focused on my liver. I hope to get back to presenting seminars that changes people’s lives permanently. I teach how to live without fear and have hope as a constant companion. You will okay no matter what happens to you in your life.

Case Studies - Are different areas that I’ve helped people overcome. I started this page right before I contracted cancer. I have a lot more to put into it and I will as I get time. If you know someone who is facing cancer treatment,  you’ll find the herbs and oils that have helped me eliminate some of the side effects of chemo. You can purchase from me some of the remedies. During chemo, I wasn’t able to go out in public so I would appreciate buying anything on line.  I’m not making money from it after my overhead of shipping it myself to you. I hope I do not go into the hole.  There is not a large profit margin in herbs and oil, which is why you don’t see everyone jumping into trying to push them to make money. Some of the remedies, you will have to purchase from the store and they worked wonderfully. I hope they do for you too.

Positive Living - Here you will find video made by other authors regarding positive life style. I’ve started with a video from the author ‘The Secret.’ She has a beautiful video about affirmations. I have tips on how to get the most out of the videos and how to apply them to your life. Each week, I plan on adding a new video.

Look around and I hope you find something that will help you in my articles. Don’t feel like you need to buy my books. If you choose too, I will autograph it from this site. Amazon also carry them. We all like Amazon because they have everything.

Power of Positive Thinking

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

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 Encouagement - testimonials

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!

Music heals the soul

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

Spontaneous Fun Engages our Spirits

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:

Cancer Gone after being in late stages

On November 14, 2008, I received a MRI for breast cancer. Of course, I had a grade three invasive ductal carcinoma of the left breast. Before the MRI, they ordered a biopsy of the breast, lymph nodes, and bone. All three were positive. The next step was the MRI.

When you receive a breast MRI, they pick up apart of the liver. They saw lesions on the exposed part of the liver on my first MRI. The radiologist order a PET, CT, bone scans, and the removal of my left breast. He put in his summary that I was in the late states of cancer.

The reason for this article is not about my left breast. It’s about my right breast. He saw a smug on it and he ordered a six-month follow up MRI. Something happened from the first to the MRI and it left the doctors perplexed.

When the surgeon studied the scans, he refused to do the surgery because he did not have enough healthy tissue to close the breast. It was decided to shrink the tumor that looked so large on the MRI. It had a large vein feeding it. The tumor was taking everything that I had to offer.

On Dec. 4th, 2008, I received my first chemo and target drugs. On Dec. 23, 2008, I had my second infusion of chemo and drugs. When the doctor examined my breast, it had completely changed. Before the drugs, it was hard like an orange and distorted. With my second infusion, the breast was soft, hanging normally, and the nipple had popped out. What was stranger was that you couldn’t feel anything hard inside the breast. Where was the tumor? So far, it never reappeared.

They ordered a CT scan on February 3rd, 2009 so they could peak inside the body. They found nothing in the left breast and the lymph nodes. In some place on my liver, the cancer was gone. The places I had left measured a drop of 70%. Again, they couldn’t find a dead tumor. So they continued with the target drugs and chemo.

On April 9th, 2009, they revisited the liver through CT scans. My oncologist was excited to find the cancer had not increased or reappeared in place where they had seen it. He did not go into a lot of detail. It was explained to me that it had not increased and it was stabilizing nicely. I was not sure what that meant and they didn’t seem to want to give out more information. They were excited and I was confused to why? I never asked.

In the first of May, I received my request for a follow up breast MRI and it was setup. What happened after the MRI I deep appreciate. Around dinnertime, I received a call from the radiologist. We talked for about thirty minutes. He asked me some very interesting questions. Below is the question he asked that meant the most to me.

“Did they prove you had cancer outside the breast or did they just assume you had it?”

It was nice to tell him. I had a breast, lymph node, and bone biopsy that was positive. He peppered me with questions to why I didn’t have the breast removed. Finally, after he exhausted all of his questions, he told me something that meant so much to me.

He said, “When you have cancer, it always leaves a scar, a smug, or something on the liver especially. On the liver, I do not see a smug or a shadow. Your liver looks like you never had cancer at all. I’ve never seen this before.” He also mentioned the right breast had the smug gone too.

He went on wondering what I did. The conversation left me in deep thought. I went back through everything. This is what I concluded, I came into this event of cancer healthy. I wasn’t taking any drugs. Instead, I used my mind to keep myself healthy. Outside of getting a monogram or a pad smear, I never needed to see a doctor.

We all program out minds with our words everyday. I learned how to program it on purpose. On the first day of drugs, I programmed my mind to study the drugs and create other chemicals that would work with those I was given. I wanted the chemicals to remove all signs that I ever had cancer.

I had forgotten about doing this. The radiologist reminded me that I did it, when he asked, “Did you receive radiation?” I told him no. Then he asked, “Have you been doing body building?”

My body tone was barely returning and I still felt weak. He went on to tell me that my left pectoral muscle was plumper than it was on the first MRI. In his summary, he wrote associated findings: “This is intense enhancement of patient’s left pectoral muscle. This is of uncertain significance and if diffused. This likely does not represent tumor involvement before of its diffuse nature.”

Two days before I went in for the MRI, my left ribs shift forward on its own. In my youth, I had twisted my ribs in a trampoline accident. Before the cancer, I programmed my mind to reverse the accident and move my body back to its original form. When my ribs shifted, it felt so wonderful. They had been frozen in the wrong position for forty-four years.

The radiologist reminded me that my mind was still working on moving my body back to its original position. It was there I remembered that I programed it to remove the sign of cancer and work with the doctor’s drugs.

Doctors have talked about for years how powerful our minds are. They can work against or for us. You choose it with you words. I’m so grateful that I learned how to capture the power of the mind and change lives.

Stage Four Cancer - Gone in Nine Weeks

Pink Orchads

In nine weeks my cancer almost disappeared. I went from a stage four, having three lymph nodes invaded by cancer, along with ninety percent of one breast, with Invasive Ductal Carcinoma being GONE. My cancer was a very aggressive carcinoma, which allowed it to be in other places outside of my breast. I had it in my bones and liver. They both had four separate places of cancer.

After nine weeks of chemo, they gave me another CAT scan.  They found it gone in my bones, lymph nodes, and breast. My liver still showed cancer, but it was smaller. So the radiologist measured the difference. They found the cancer had decreased by 70% in nine weeks.

There is more wonderful news. The doctor can’t feel any hard material in my breast and lymph nodes. The CAT scan indicated that it couldn’t detect a dead tumor in my breast or lymph nodes too. So how did it happen? I will share with you what I did and you can decide for yourself.

It was a combination of events. The one I feel had the most impact on me removing the cancer is a new drug that I’m testing for the FDA. I’ve also programmed my mind to work with the chemo to help destroy and eliminate the cancer from my body, by creating additional chemical.

There is more, and this part is important! I kept myself in a state of love for my situation and myself. Fear, worry, and doubt weren’t an option for me. I stayed in a state of gratitude and love for my situation. This is crucial when you are dealing with your body and mind. Negative thoughts pull you away from the healing powers of your Creator and His help. You need a package deal to pull this off and I’m pleased with the results and so is the doctor.

Another very important part of my package was I had hundreds of people praying for a miracle and it worked. All of the above acts played an important role, including what you eat. During this time, ninety percent of my diet was food that has been proven to heal. I felt the difference in my life and I plan on continuing it into the future.

In the very beginning of my cancer journey, a dear friend gave me a book put out by the University of California, San Diego Medical Center, Moores Cancer Center. They research healing foods. It’s called Discover the Healing Power of Food.

I quote: We believe that food nourishes the body, nurtures the spirit, and is essential for health and healing.

Vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and legumes have long been recognized as good sources of vitamins, minerals, and fiber. New research suggests that many of these plant-based foods contain other healing substances called phytochemicals (plant chemicals). These phytochemicals help protect plant-based foods from disease, and studies are revealing that eating a diet with plenty of phytochemical-rich foods may help protect humans from disease as well.

If you want more information regarding this book, you can find it at www.healthyeating.ucsd.edu. All proceeds from the sale of this book go to the Cancer Prevention and Control Program of the Moores UCSD Cancer Center.

Another act I did was to use essential oils to help sooth the effects of the chemo. I highly recommend them to be used properly. I plan on writing a separate article regarding them in the future. There is a lot to say about this and I found the oils to be very soothing. I deeply appreciated the knowledge that my son had about them. He and his wife had attended numerous classes. I felt very good about my complete routine and it helped me to enjoy the process, and that is saying a lot. Cancer and chemo can be rough and hard to handle personally.

The Power of Color Series - Part 1

A couple of days ago, I was talking with a group of people. When we got on the subject of color, everyone seemed very interested in my knowledge of it and how it affects us.

I explained that I had found this research by going to the library in the early 1980s. I haven’t done a lot of research since then. If I knew where I could get more, I would love to read it.

Someone requested I put my findings on my blog. So I went through my papers and found the information that I dug out of the library. My information all comes from print books and magazines. If there’s someone out there who can add to it, please do by leaving a comment at the end. I want research and not something from a book that isn’t backed up by research that you can go read yourself.

Looking over my papers, I still like this article, The Power of Color. I found some of the sources on my own and I found the information to be accurate. Today, I found myself enjoying the article as much as I did in 1980. It was written by Leslie Kane in July 1982 for a magazine called Health. In my research, I found a book I think was well written. It was printed by Architecture Digest in the early 1980s. I only have pages copied out of it because it was a limited edition, so please let me know what you want. I’ll start with the article. Here are the first three paragraphs of The Power of Color - and you can decide for yourself.

“Why should hanging pretty red wallpaper in your bedroom inspire you and your spouse to make war and not love? Why does a teacher who holds sway in a yellow-and-brown classroom complain that your child’s fidgety and inattentive while a teacher who instructs in a blue room calls him a model student? And why should your job suddenly become more depressing instead of less when the boss finally shells out for a paint job and your dirty white walls get a coat of nice fresh green?
It’s a matter of science—the science of experiencing color.”

This next part I found to be true in a couple of other books that are out of print.

“Colors are electromagnetic wavebands of energy,” says Alexander Schauss, director of the American Institute of Biosocial Research in Tacoma, Washington. “Each color has its own wavelength. The wavebands stimulate chemicals in your eye, sending impulses or messages to the pituitary and pineal glands near the brain. These are master endocrine glands that regulate hormones and other physiological systems in the body.” Stimulated by response to colors, glandular activities can alter moods, speed up heart rates and increase brain activity.”

If you find this information interesting, I will continue entering Leslie’s article and other information from books that are out of print. Please let me know how you feel about this by leaving a comment below. The picture above is one of my favorite pictures from the Hubble telescope. The color is beaufitul and this is a part of our universe. Color is important to your well-being.

Do you believe you can eliminate side effects of chemo?

In life, we stumble across a few things that change our live and we want to share them. You might know someone who is going through chemo and it might help them. With each infusion of chemo, I received shingles, rashes and hemorrhoids. On the fourth infusion, the hemorrhoids started to bleed. I had never experienced hemorrhoids before and I hope that I never do. 

When I was mother with small children, I used herbs all the time. It saved me a few trips to the doctors. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I remembered that there were herbs for hemorrhoids. So I dusted off my books and I started to read. 

Sure enough, I found more than one. Luckily, I had one of the herbs mentioned on my shelf. Since, I wasn’t suppose to be out in public. I was elated. I took two capsules twice a day. By the time, I reached the tenth day. I was surprised to realize how raw my bowls had been. Now, they felt normal.

This happened in time for me to receive my next infusion of taxotere. I continued with the herb Psyllum Husks during my chemo treatments. What happened shocked me. My rashes and shingles never returned.  Also, my hair and nails stopped falling out. Instead, they started to grow and kept on growing during my infusions.

I shaved my hair in the beginning. On my seventh infusion, I  shaved another inch of hair off so it would match my new hair growth. Before, I discovered Psyllium Husk, I lost hair on my sides and top. I also wanted to point out that hair on my legs started to grow too and I wasn’t pleased with it.  

It’s important to keep your immune system working well to help your body remove the cancer. In nine weeks, the cancer was gone from my breast and 70% from my liver. I will know in June 2009, if it is all gone from my liver. It might be a new drug that I’m testing for the FDA that is causing my wonderful recovery. It’s also common sense that we need to keep our immune system strong enough to help the doctors remove the cancer. 

For me, I had a hard time getting out to a store. So I made the oils and herbs available along with my books. Don’t feel like you need to buy my books. I do hope you’ll buy the herbs and oils. They worked wonderfully and I hope they do for you. You find the link here to more information.

Let me know, if you know of something that has worked. We can share it.