Host: Sheryl Glick R.M.T.
Special Guest: Tom North (www.truenorthbytomnorth.com)
In today’s episode of “Healing From Within” Sheryl Glick, author of The Living Spirit: Answers for Healing and Infinite love welcomes Tom North, author of True North which is his story of being one of the eight North children who together with the ten Beardsley children, became the family extended family which was featured in the 1968 film, “Yours, Mine and Ours” starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda. Tom will share his story of how what appeared to be one big happy family as the movie depicted was anything but that. Tom will share intimate details of his stepfather’s violence and abuse which created a life of intimidation fear and depression for the North children and how Tom traveled on a journey of self-discovery survival and healing as he reclaimed his own identity and self-esteem. We know things are not always as they appear and on many shows for “Healing From Within” we have addressed the need for responsibility by medical practitioners teachers family and friends to intervene and help those who are being hurt by violent or abusive people. In an evolving society we must assume responsibility to speak up for injustice and criminal activity in any form in order to help those who may not be able to help themselves.
Tom speaks of childhood memories and what he writes below is so typical of a sensitive spiritual child one who almost still remembers home or eternal soul life before incarnating into this life….
“Our home was two blocks from Penn Cove Beach and I was drawn to explore the beach’s natural treasures, as if each find was a nugget of pure gold…clams oysters prawns and crabs abounded. Every discovery I made was a moment of wonder. It was on these walks at the seashore that I remember having reveries, indulging in the excitement of just being alive…I believe we all have this sense of magic of life itself when we are children.”
Sheryl feels that is an accurate sense of feeling life at an inner soul level and in her book The Living Spirit, shares her discoveries as a Reiki energy healer/medium of connecting to this higher field of information love and eternal source that is all around us and within each of us… and which is in truth the reality of what Tom felt and Sheryl felt as children…it is the connection to energy, creation and eternal life and it is our birthright and also our destiny to remember and appreciate our uniqueness as spiritual and physical beings while we travel through the physical world of sensation and conquer the many challenges offered to us by a physical life experience. Yes some of us still know these truths and awareness that was so simple for us when we were children.
Toms remembrance of his birth father’s love for his mother sustained him through the difficulties that he observed when his mother married a very different kind of man…“Tom felt as a child that his parents were very much in love. They laughed a lot, kissed a lot looked at life as an adventure and generally displayed affection to each other and to their children. In the dynamics of the family Tom as an independent child generally only received attention as a result of accidents, crisis or emergencies as was needed…Janette as chief mischief maker had to be watched all time and the other children with their unique issues got their attention according to their needs as should be the way most caretakers respond to their family.”
Toms stepfather Frank Beardsley was very different in temperament and nature than Tom’s birthfather. “Being in the dining room or any other room with Frank Beardsley was like sitting next to a road-side bomb, an incendiary device that could go off at any time. Time after time my aunt and uncles tried to point out to my mother the danger she was exposing her children to Mom would protest though insisting that bringing some degree of love and security into the Beardsley children was more important.”
