Synopsis

Christopher was happily ensconced in a lifestyle of music making and Rocky Mountain outdoors when he was tragically struck by a car while riding his bicycle. An injured spinal cord leaves him paralyzed from the chest down with no sensation and no hope to walk again. Just as suddenly, his wife Renee found herself in all-consuming care taking role-on top of a demanding job as an IT manager and her own ongoing recovery from advanced lymphatic cancer. Through experimentation with alternative therapies, including herbs, energy medicine, and diet, Renee has managed to stay in remission from cancer for 12 years. They found the commonality and applied those principles to Chris' restorative process.

Exposed to the medical fields' cautiousness of a litigious culture, doctors and therapists shy away from encouraging his quest to walk again. Their journey unfolded ways to change healthcare, relationships and the body, as the higher wisdom and power of love guided them. They proved that the methods from well-known non-traditional healers' actually worked for the both of them.
Synopsis

Table of Contents

Chapters 1-2

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Early on Renee discovered that traditional medicine focuses on treating symptoms whereas alternative methods help the body to heal itself by seeking out the root causes. Healing on Higher Ground shows how patients can have the best of both conventional and alternative therapy, through a new model of patient-physician relationship built on hopefulness. The couple also found a more thorough and deeper healing by furthering the quest into their minds and emotions.

While the book combines conventional and alternative ways for treating spinal cord injury and reversing long-term complications of cancer treatment, it also awakens the heart of the medical profession to feel and encourages society to be responsible for their decisions.

Throughout the courageous story, vivid scenes in treatments, therapies, thoughts and prayers reveal ten simple wisdoms to use with medical professionals to gain more from the health care system and for your health. Healing on Higher Ground will leave you with:

- How to increase your choices to include alternative practices and medicines to make a bigger medicine chest
- Concepts and techniques that you can integrate into traditional medical care
- Ways to strengthen the medical provider and family partnerships to promote cures for any condition
- Encouragement to heal at the root cause for a complete and thorough healing
- How to bring techniques into the surroundings where you heal to initiate repair in the body, spirit and mind.

Chris and Renee's triumph over life-threatening events is an inspiration for patients and their families. They tell their story to give patients and practitioners the permission to dream the highest hope. Healing on Higher Ground tells that it is time to merge conventional medicine with the wide range of alternatives and hopeful attitudes to make for a new, better health care experience in a doctor's office. As a mission both authors now embrace the effort to advance health care to higher ground. They do this through music, energy medicine and patient advocacy. It is another of their highest hopes.