In today’s episode of Healing from Within, your host Sheryl Glick welcomes guest Erica Tucci (http://www.radiantsurvivor.com) author of Radiant Survivor- (http://www.radiantsurvivor.com) How to Shine and Thrive through Recovery from Stroke, Cancer Abuse Addiction and other Life-Altering Experience. Erica Tucci was actively engaged as a corporate manager of a Fortune 500 company, a healing arts business owner and an author of three books. Unaware of any major health issue, one morning, much the same as any other morning, Erica suffered a major stroke that left her completely paralyzed on her right side. During a long recovery, Erica gained much wisdom about what is really important in life and now draws on her experiences through her healing process to use her story as an inspiration for others facing life challenges, which we all have whether big or small.
During the process of understanding what type of stroke Erica sustained, she learned a great deal about the statistics and logistics of the disease and shared these thoughts: There are two kinds of strokes. One is hemorrhagic a stroke where blood floods the brain often wiping out cognitive abilities and causing physical disabilities. An Ischemic a stroke is caused by a blood clot. Both types of strokes might cause paralysis of some sort. An Ischemic stroke might be rendered less severe if a certain injection is administered in time. Erica later found out that her stroke was caused by a hole in the heart, which over 25% of the population has but often goes undetected. There is a certain test known as the Trans-Esophageal Echocardiogram test, (TEE- pole), which with a transducer, inserted into the esophagus, sends out ultra sonic sound waves which can show the opening in the heart.
During Erica’s recovery process, she became aware of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, who also suffered from a stroke and paralysis. Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard trained brain scientist, in her book My Stroke of Insight, describes how her stroke showed her the more we focus on any belief the more powerful the belief becomes. Dr. Taylor learned the left hemisphere thinks in patterned responses to incoming stimulation operating the right side or masculine aspect of a person. The right hemisphere is open to possibilities and imagination operating the left side or feminine aspect of functioning. As our left mind governs the right side of our body, the masculine side, it creates limiting beliefs through critical judgment and analysis. The right mind, which governs the left side or feminine side of the body, is where compassion, self love and creativity originate from. “[The] right mind is open to new possibilities and thinks out of the box. It is not limited to the rules and regulations established by [the] left mind that created that box… [It] brings new insights …” Dr. Taylor realized as a result from her stroke, paralyzing her right side and affecting the left hemisphere of her brain, that she needed now to access an entire new dimension or way to receive information, and became much more sensitive to her own sense of intuition and internal guidance system and was able to perceive life and her recovery in a much broader view or bigger picture of life in general. In other words, she was no longer so interested in a one way approach to any question or task. Utilizing the right hemisphere of her brain, which had not been damaged by the stroke, she was able to feel more compassion, self love and creativity, or access the feminine side of her nature which ultimately brought her great wisdom and showed her the possibilities for respecting the many ways we learn more about ourselves, our energy and how the brain functions.
Erica goes on to talk about the masculine vs. the feminine aspects of energy. Humans are a microcosm -- Feminine at the center-the heart Intuition, and engaging the male energy, which functions to determine action and bring ideas into manifestation.
