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Traumatic brain injury often comes
out of the blue as a result of a fall
or accident. Stoica recommends
that everyone, regardless of age,
prepare a baseline of their own brain
functionality just in case it happens
to them.
Simply read two pieces of
literature and write up a brief report,
she recommends, and do some logic
games like sudoku. Parents can
have their child repeat the exercise
as they age. File the results away in
case they are ever needed.
“This gives doctors a very cheap,
very easy tool to give a more
accurate diagnosis,” she said. “And it
can help detect early dementia with
older people.”
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Advances in Women’s Personal
and Political Status in Israel.
Speaker:
Dina Charnin
NCJW Director, Israel Policy and Programs
Thursday, November 1, 2018
7pm - 9pm
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
6735 Telegraph Rd.
Bloomfield Hills
Cost:
Member $10
Non-member $15
Seats are limited. RSVP to guarantee your spot.
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so people like me can get into it and
figure out what is going on,” she
said.
A PAINFUL RECOVERY
Despite her healing abilities, Stoica
faced a long, difficult road after her
own brain injury. “It was like trying
to climb a mountain of sand,” she
said. She became despondent and
contemplated suicide. Then she
realized while her life would never
be the same, it was still worth liv-
ing.
“I had to give up the idea of
being the person I was before the
accident,” she said, “and realize that
I would not give up.”
Heal Your Brain, Reclaim Your
Life helps people who have suffered
a concussion or stroke do just that
with practical tips and compassion-
ate insight. Those who experience
a brain injury should immediately
seek medical attention and have an
MRI to ensure there is no internal
bleeding, Stoica said. After that, she
advises to “rest as much as possible
— no music, no strong smells, no
traveling, eat only very light food
and drink lots of water, all so the
body can concentrate on healing.”
She also advises seeing a chiro-
practor or orthopedic doctor to
“make sure all the bones are in the
right place,” practicing meditation
and doing logic exercises like puz-
zles to stimulate the brain.
Stoica used to love being in the
kitchen creating a week’s worth of
meals at a time, but after her brain
injury, “I couldn’t cook for beans,”
she said. She has slowly regained
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her culinary talents and is now
writing Cooking After Brain Injury:
Easy Cooking for Recovery.
ENABLING SELF-HEALING
Energy healing manipulates,
restores or balances the flow of
energy in the body. It helps remove
blockages so the body can activate
its own natural healing ability.
Among the people Stoica has
helped is Ann Wagenberg, who she
met while living in Israel in 1978.
“She was losing her eyesight and the
doctors could not do anything for
her,” Stoica said. “Luckily, I was able
to help her heal and she regained
her eyesight completely.”
The two have kept in touch via
Skype and become friends. “She
invested years of studying and
being a very compassionate, loving
person who is ready to help alle-
viate suffering,” Wagenberg said
via email. “I have benefited greatly
from our serious and honest rela-
tionship.”
Stoica often works remotely with
people as far away as Australia
and Europe. “They send me four
pictures of their body from head to
toe and I send them a text letting
them know when I start and finish
the healing,” she explained. “The
healer does not heal — the healer
enables the energy field to relax so
our innate capacity for self-healing
kicks in.
“It sounds impossible, but I can
see the trauma in the energy field
and can balance it,” she said. “If you
have the intent of helping the per-
son, nothing bad can happen. The
worst that ever happens is that they
fall asleep because their trauma was
released. But I do not diagnose, and
I can’t cure. If you claim to do either
of those as a healer, you are in deep
trouble.”
Stoica, who will speak at 10 a.m.
Sunday, Nov. 4, along with other
local authors at the Jewish Book
Fair at the Jewish Community
Center, is not a traditionally reli-
gious or practicing Jew, but says she
believes in God.
“I know there must be a God
because things have happened in
my practice that could not have
happened otherwise,” she said. “The
beauty of the human body is just
amazing, and there has to be an
intelligent being behind it.” ■
Learn more at HealingBrainInjury.com and
HealingAlternative.us.