Wellness Achiever of the Month

Each month we are inspired by individuals who have taken great strides in improving their health and well-being using Ziquin's rejuvenation strategy.

2004
2005
October 2005
Bettina Arrigoni
November 2005
Melody Rogers
December 2005
Marcia Keilee
2006
January 2006
Geraldine and Helmut Lammelin
February 2006
Patricia Kavulic
March 2006
Sherrie Skipper
April 2006
Sharon Monet

May 2006
Chuck Traylor

June 2006
Barbara Johnson

July 2006
Gina Citoli

August 2006
Dr. Janet Kearney and Fred Gissendaner

September 2006
Regina Cottrell

October 2006
Julie Reiner
November 2006
Bob Pates
December 2006
Maria Royce
2007
   
January 2007
Tina Johnson
February 2007
Butch Dollar
March 2007
Jack Wagoner
April 2007
Kate Berringer
May 2007
Lorraine Buell
June 2007
Pat and Jerry Pinkowski
July 2007
Sheryl Williamson
August 2007
Keiko Baxter
September 2007
Rejoice Masters
October 2007
Sue Jenkins
November 2007
Robert Brauer
December 2007
Kay Moonstar
2008
   
January 2008
Cassandra Sharron
February 2008
Patty Mariscuilo
March 2008
Trish Sulezich

January, 2008
Wellness Achiever, Cassandra Sharron

I just turned 40 in August, and I have never been healthier and happier in my entire life. This is quite a miracle for me, as you will soon learn. At the age of thirty, I was diagnosed with Hepatitis C and lymphatic swelling. This was a result of lifestyle choices—I had relapsed after six years of sobriety. The Hepatitis C got worse when I had started drinking again.

My Apache history and lineage was about sacrifice – giving up our land, culture, and lifestyle.  

My lineage was plagued with severe alcoholism, and I grew up with alcoholism in my family. Health was never a concern.  Our health was originally from the earth, the planet and water. This is what used to feed us, but then what fed us was the alcohol. Nutrition and health weren’t concepts in our household.  It wasn’t until my Hep C diagnosis that I had to go to the library and learn about nutrition and alternative holistic therapies.

With kids on welfare and going to school, I tried many things I would read on myself—herbs, reflexology, and mud baths. Until a year and a half ago, I felt I had failed. I still had the pain and swelling and constant headaches. I couldn’t sleep through a night. My weight went up to 200 lbs at one point, and I was losing all of my beautiful hair.  My bowel movements were shot. My feet had blisters, and I lost my taste buds. I would cry at the drop of a dime, and also had anxiety attacks – my heart would thump and I would get dizzy. I had absolutely no strength – my kids had to do everything. I was even called the Slipper Lady because my legs and feet were so bloated, I couldn’t wear shoes.

With the Hep C diagnosis, I felt relieved to finally know why I couldn’t function like a normal person.

I couldn’t help looking at my children and wondering if this was to be their fate also. I had to send them 3,000 miles away to live with my sister.  I had no income, no job, no education, and was sleeping on the couch of a friend who had six children of her own. What was I going to do to get out of this diseased and poverty-filled void I had gotten myself into?  I had two choices. One was to give up and fall victim to the swollen lymph nodes that were now out of control. The other was to keep looking for some way of healing.  The Creator heard me, and the Universe complied by sending me a runner in the form of a Wellness Coach, by the name of Donna Love.

Donna referred me to Ziquin’s weekly conference calls with Dr. Yu.

I didn’t even have the phone service to make the Ziquin conference call, so Donna did a 3-way for me.  Within one minute of listening to him speak, my eyes filled with water and my hair stood up on end.  This is the way Creator speaks to me. After several years of research and attempted approaches which failed, I finally found something that would work! I was instantly relieved. But how was I to pay for this on a continual basis?  I had an annual income of $6,000 and no job that would employ me with these health issues.   I could only do one thing, and that was to take a chance. So I invested all I had into my life—and the future lives of my children. Because I didn’t even have a bank account, I went directly to Donna’s house to pay her for my first order. 

Three days after I started the products, the swelling radically reduced.  I went out and bought a pair of shoes for myself. 

I knew I was going to have to be healthier to obtain my higher education. The first two weeks using the Ziquin formulas, I lost 12 lbs. Within one month, I lost another 8 lbs. Because of all my weight loss, I was able to enroll into college. I received an unexpected kickback student loan for $6,000. I got off welfare, got a car, paid my bills and bought three months’ supply of Ziquin.

Within weeks, I ceased feeling any pain in my joints and the swelling in my limbs disappeared completely. The lack of energy I had reversed—so much so that I haven’t been able to talk slowly to this day!  The shortness of breath, pain in lower back, constipation, and the frequency of anxiety attacks were over. Also, I have had allergic reactions to biting insects in the past that led me to be hospitalized. I’d have to stay out of wooded areas, which was a shame because my people’s ceremonies would take place in the woods.  Recently, I was bitten after taking Ziquin and there were no allergic reactions— NONE!!!!!!  I go to the woods quite often now and still have no problem with those pesky insects. 

Throughout the entire time I was following the Ziquin protocol, I was retracing.

I knew it was coming. I had experienced plenty of pain up until then, and this was a retracing on a cellular level that I never knew could happen. I released toxins from the bottom of my feet, and that’s where it showed: My feet started swelling and itching with bumps, sores and pain so great I could not walk. Donna, my Wellness Coach, carried me through this time, with the greatest tips of all.  Drink your water!!! I cannot stress this enough.  And please follow the low stress diet!  I did exactly as she told me, and I was able to push through the retracing while I started attending college for the first time.

After my first follow-up blood test, my gastrointestinal specialist—who has been with me throughout my years of exploratory holistic remedies and now the Ziquin protocol—called and told me never in her practice has she seen someone’s count go down so quickly. My lymphatic system is unclogged and the anxiety is now gone.  I have been able to release many toxins in different ways now, with my bowl movements, urination, and feet all happy to share the load.  I will graduate with my Bachelor’s Degree in Native American Studies through Evergreen State College, and look forward to being one of the key note speakers at graduation. I now have a Master’s program to look forward to, and the most amazing of all, I have become an employable member of society.

Since my experience with Ziquin, I have always put my life above materialistic things, because my health is my life.  I have always made the way for money to come, so I could have my Ziquin.

I’m sharing what I have experienced with other Native American women who have made lifestyle choices such as I did in the past. In fact, I have worked with a couple of them, and their diabetes, pain, swelling, depression are going away! Today, I am on a real road to recovery through the support of Ziquin. I would have never been able to pull myself up and out of the poverty level and the uneducated lifestyle I was in.  Now, I have the two brightest years of my life to look back on, with Donna Love and Dr. Yu serving as two of the most influential people in my life. For that, I am eternally grateful and raise my hands up to Ziquin: AHO!