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Hello Family!
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What a pleasure to have you with us again on Viviendo Sin Límites!
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My name is Veronica Garcia.
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and our hope is through these videos,
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which we know you are going to share,
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because our goal, our vision is
to be able to help you learn
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so that we can grow in our soul, body, mind, and spirit,
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and we can achieve what we have always longed for.
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I know that we all want to have a life,
a fantastic fabulous life
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where we have fulfillment and experiences
that lead us to being better human beings each day.
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On this occasion, we have
our beloved Dagna Galarza.
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She is a psychotherapist
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She is a family counselor.
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And on this occasion,
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she is going to be talking about her personal
experience of how an emotional situation
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affected her physical body.
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So, Dagna, Welcome!
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Thank you again for having me
on your beautiful show.
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Dagna, I know many of the things
we talked about on the first show,
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which I invite you to watch so that
you can hear our first segment.
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But on this occasion,
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I want Dagna to explain to us her process of understanding
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how her emotions affected her body to such a point
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that she contracted very serious illnesses.
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How was the experience at the beginning, Dagna,
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of being able to understand that
your emotional state affected your body so much?
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Tell us!
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I'm going to try to summarize it for you.
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I would say the crucial moment was only a few years ago,
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about 3 or 4 years ago.
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I nearly ended up in a motorized wheelchair.
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An electric wheelchair.
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A motorized chair because the pain was so great.
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I had braces from the neck, shoulders,
back, wrists, elbows, feet,
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in a horrific way.
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I had a fall.
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I didn't pay much attention to it.
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I got up, sprained an ankle, and kept walking.
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Then I went to work.
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All that then started a chain reaction
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because I didn't leave any space for my ankle to heal.
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In that same situation,
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I was dealing with a situation
that appeared in my life in 2001,
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when I had an physical therapy office.
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In that office, I had some people
who did my billings by contract.
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They weren't my employees, but
they made a few mistakes
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and the US federal government accused me of fraud,
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of having stolen $5 million in false invoices
from the federal government.
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That was when my physical and emotional state
began to greatly decline.
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At that time, I generally felt very strong
physically good.
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I didn't tell anyone because as the type
of people we are
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-and more so as ministers-
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we can't say anything to anyone.
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We worry about what they will say.
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Latinos are so used to what
the other person says about us.
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We want to be like our neighbors.
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If my neighbor moves to the most expensive part of the city,
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I want to go also, whether I can or cannot.
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After being ...
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that's when my emotional problems began.
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I went to the church pastor and he told me because–
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if we are going to talk, let's talk. OK?
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The first thing I thought was this isn't
who I am; that is, it isn't me.
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I didn't steal from anyone.
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I didn't make these errors.
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I started searching for information
but all these processes take time.
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I started to have depression.
I started to panic and have anxiety.
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So, I said these are demons. This isn't me.
This is something spiritual.
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Let's go after the demons.
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I visited my pastor at that time,
a very nice American, and he told me,
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"No, Dagna. This is something normal
because of the situation you are going through.
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Therefore, I am going to send you
to our church's psychologist."
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The church's psychologist told me on the first visit:
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"This depression you have didn't start now.
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This depression started when you were little."
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I said, "How do you know?"
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He said, “Because I asked you
a single question.
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I told you as treatment, go to the park
and get some fresh air."
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I said, "I don't have time for that."
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He said, "You see yourself sitting on a swing."
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"No, I don't see myself sitting on a swing."
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He said, "When you were little,
you used to sit on a swing."
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"One that my dad and mom bought
and when they said to get on, you got on."
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He said, "You have a major depression,
and it started in your childhood."
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I told him "You're crazy and everyone else is too."
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It went on like that. I kept working.
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So one fracture leads to a
second fracture of the other leg.
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I have two air boots with two broken legs working, guiding,
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continuing to minister in the church,
doing things around the house.
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This causes my hips and my knees to dislocate.
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My spine dislocates. My shoulders
dislocate one after the other.
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They then began to give me injections,
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about 25 injections in the right foot for plantar fasciitis.
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He injected the other foot, a shot in the knees,
shots in the shoulders, in the neck,
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everywhere because it's a chain reaction.
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I went to my psychiatrist through all of this.
He sent me medication.
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The first thing I said was: "Sir, I'm not
going to take medications. What is this?
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"I'm not crazy."
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The holy spirit tells me,
"First, it has nothing to do with craziness.
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You have a chemical imbalance.
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I need you to take those medications
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so I can help you focus on what you have
to do with the federal government.”
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He said, "If you had cancer, you'd have
to have radiation therapy.
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Yes, so there is no difference."
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By letting this go on for so many years,
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there came a time where I had all of the diagnoses
that I'm telling you now.
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I was taking 26 medications a day
to be able to even cope.
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Before this, Dagna—this situation that happened
to you with the government—
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You didn't have this diagnosis.
You never had taken your health seriously.
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This was the moment that this explodes.
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Then you have to take action, and then what happened?
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No, like many other people,
it made me very angry.
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But that's because that's what they did to me,
my parents did to me, to my whole family.
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And it was normal.
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I lived in that verbally abusive environment,
emotionally abusive.
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it was so normal for me that–
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I became a person that has to get through this.
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We are going to figure it out.
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We can get through this.
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I was never diagnosed with any of those problems
or high blood pressure.
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Absolutely nothing.
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I was as healthy as a horse, I thought.
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We had this whole situation.
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We spent over 10 years struggling
because of the federal government.
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Thank God we were declared innocent.
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Yes, I think my case is the only case
right now in the federal government
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where everything was reversed;
my file shredded.
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Everything was like before,
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as if nothing had happened
because there was no case.
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It took us 10 years but we give glory to God.
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God helped us and here we are.
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But as a result of all this,
my physical situations started.
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when I see myself, I was lying
there for three months
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with basically every bone broken.
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I said, "It can’t get any worse."
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They were going to prescribe me a motorized chair.
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I said something has to change.
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So, I started to pray more.
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I went to every doctor to start
ruling out physical diagnoses.
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"No, I don't have this. No, I don't have this."
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Everything comes down to the emotional diagnosis
of a broken, toxic soul.
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All that anger I had.
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All that poison, that toxicity
that then is generated
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through hormones which were causing me
most of the symptoms and diagnoses.
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I can still tell you that there is a diagnosis,
but the whole picture has changed.
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In that case, Dagna, to consider what you feel
that bitterness since childhood.
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This comes from your infancy and in your subconscious
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because nobody wants to have those shackles.
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But, nobody has a perfect family either,
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because who wouldn’t want to be born with a silver spoon,
with wonderful parents that always gave you love?
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That's not real.
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The truth is that we come from dysfunctional families
with parents that raised us as they could.
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They gave their best in their ignorance
because nobody teaches us to be parents.
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Correct.
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Then we bring along everything from our childhood
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in your case, you reached a point
where everything came out
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because of a critical situation in one moment.
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-Correct.
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-What was that type of treatment?
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who did you have to see to be able to manage
and now be in a different place?