Episode Eighteen: Healing Miracles with Linda Perkes
Join us in this inspiring episode of Latter-Day Miracles as Haley Hatch Freeman interviews special guest Linda Perkes. Linda shares her incredible journey from surviving a devastating car accident to becoming a massage therapist and hypnotherapist. Discover how the power of faith played a crucial role in her healing process. Linda recounts miraculous stories of recovery through magnesium therapy and her transformative experience with hypnotherapy. Embrace the power of positivity and the divine as Linda provides insights into overcoming life's toughest challenges. Don't miss this touching story of resilience, healing, and faith.
Linda Perkes
Linda’s book
Contact Our Guest
Facebook: Linda n Mark Perkes
Email: lindakperkes@gmail.com
Website: https://www.talesfromthesummit.com/
Linda’s book: Jesus is Here: Come Join the Feast
Transcript
[00:00:00] Welcome to Latter Day Miracles, where we share true stories of angels and marvels. Get ready to enjoy accounts from everyday people that remind us of divine love, that we're never truly alone, and the power of faith in these latter days. I'm Haley Hatch Freeman. And I'm Misty Smith. Sit back, open your heart and prepare to be inspired.
Haley Freeman: Welcome to Latter Day Miracles. I have a special guest with us today, Linda Perkes and maybe you notice I am missing my co-host. Um, Misty is sick, so we send her well wishes that hopefully she'll feel better soon. But we'll go ahead and do our podcast as usual on schedule with Linda. You might recognize her.
We've had her as a guest before and she was so fabulous and she has so many amazing miracles and messages that, we just knew that we needed to bring her back and [00:01:00] she's amazing to be here again with us. And, I'll go ahead and read her bio and then send the time over to her . After 15.
Years in telecommunications, Linda transferred her skills into health industry. Now she currently enjoys a 23 year career as a massage therapist. In 2014, she published an inspirational book entitled Jesus Is Here Come Join the Feast. I love this book. I highly endorse it. It was released on Kindle and as a audio book this spring after enduring a horrific neurological health challenge for two years, Linda found healing for it by using hypnotherapy.
She became trained as a hypnotherapist and now offers hypnosis therapy to others. Linda has a passion for teaching and has conducted nearly 700 [00:02:00] classes or seminars on various subjects. That is amazing. How does someone do 700 classes?
Linda Perkes: I'm really old, I'm really old.
Haley Freeman: Oh, that's, that's phenomenal.
She and her second husband, Mark, have posterity totaling 22, including all their children, bonus children in-laws and grandchildren. At the age of 50, she took up mountaineering, rock climbing, canyoneering and ice waterfall climbing. At age 56, she learned backcountry skiing so that she could climb California's Mount Shasta to ski down it. She summited many mountains such as Grand Teton, Mount Olympus and
King Fisher Tower. She also cycles and has completed tri-state tours and triathlons, good relationships with family, friends, clientele, keep Linda motivated to make [00:03:00] a positive difference in this world. And she's fabulous. So I'm so excited to go ahead and turn the time over to her.
Linda Perkes: Okay. Thank you so much, Haley.
Well, the first thing that I wanna share with you wonderful people who are my friends, is that, um, in 1992 I received my first massage and it was so wonderful that within 30 minutes being on that table, I decided I wanna become a massage therapist. I wanna do this. I wanna help other people feel as great as I'm feeling right now.
Um, however, um, it took about 11 years for life to, work its way toward me being able to go to school. And what happened actually was in, um, February 11th, 2002, I was the recipient of a pretty horrific head-on car collision. So the oncoming [00:04:00] car, I'm not going to tell the details, but the oncoming car had, uh, barely slowed to 55 miles an hour.
I was stopped when it hit me. So as I saw the car coming, people say that. During trauma, the time slows down and it really did slow down. And I thought, I'm, I'm dead. Uh, and I said, Heavenly Father, please take care of my children. And the next thing I knew, I blacked out. The airbag hit me and I don't know how long I was out.
Maybe 10, 15 minutes because when I came to, uh, the horn was blaring, there was the horrific smell of the airbag having blown, you know, the explosion. And I was surprised that I was still alive.
Haley Freeman: Wow. So
Linda Perkes: I crawled out. I couldn't get out the driver's side, but I crawled out the passenger side. So, um, we're going to fast forward and say that when I walked [00:05:00] over to the incident people and said.
Hey, I was just in an accident. Is there anybody here? Can you help me? They looked like I was a walking ghost because I think everyone thought the person in that vehicle was dead.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Linda Perkes: So, uh, the recovery for that accident took, um. After about a year I was functioning better and it was after a year that I was able to start going to massage school.
So it was determined by the state of Utah that I was unable to do my former career. And so the state of Utah put me through vocational rehabilitation, and I was able to become a massage therapist. Wow. And here is what I think about it, is I wanted to be a massage therapist so badly to help other people.
And I think Heavenly Father, God, the universe, however you wanna say, said, oh, you think you're compassionate. You think that you have empathy, you think that you understand [00:06:00] pain. Well, let's give you a life experience. That will help you be a better therapist. Wow. So it took a long, long time to recover. I was in pain, a, a, a significant amount of pain for three years, but, the cool thing is our bodies can recover.
What I wanted to say about this accident is so many people said to me. You'll never be the same. Okay. Before the accident, I had, uh, ridden Lotoja the longest one day by race in America, and I hoped to do it again. But then the accident happened and, um, people were saying, you'll never be an athlete again.
Your body's so broken. And I didn't reply to them. I just shook my head. But in my mind and my heart, I said, you're right. I'll never be the same. I'm gonna be a thousand times better.
Haley Freeman: Wow. I love that.
Linda Perkes: Know that our body has the ability [00:07:00] to heal on every level. Everything in the first podcast that that we gave, I shared the story of my great-grandmother having been raised from the dead.
So in my DNA is the knowledge and the memory that everything can be overcome, including death. And so I just had that attitude. That I'm going to be better. And yeah, it took about, it was about three and a half years after the accident, before I was really going strong again and doing some adventurous things
What I want to share though is a few of the miracles that I've experienced while working with people. As my clients. I'm gonna change their names because I didn't have a chance to get permission to use their names. So really, really cool story. Uh, there was a 17-year-old girl who woke up in the middle of the night [00:08:00] with excruciating back
spasms and she was just crying asking her, mom, please take me to the emergency. Take me to the emergency room. So she was in the, uh, drill team of her high school. Again, 17 years old. Take me to the emergency room, Mom, help me. And her mom said, please, can you just hang on a couple of hours and I'm gonna call Linda.
So I got a phone call at 5:45 AM from my friend asking me if I could help her daughter. Uh, we bring the daughter down into my massage room and the first thing I asked the mom how long's it been since she had some magnesium. Years ago, probably 15 years ago, I read a chapter in a book and the chapter in the book was called The Magnesium Miracle.
And so I began really, educating all my clients about how important magnesium is. So before I finish the story, [00:09:00] let me share with you about magnesium, if that's okay.
Haley Freeman: Yes.
Linda Perkes: The water that has been put on this earth for humans to consume is really, really full of magnesium. It's like the highest mineral in waters, like springs, wells.
Um. Rivers, even the ocean. We know the ocean salty. Guess what? The second highest mineral in the ocean is? Magnesium. So, all the water that our ancestors drank and, and people from millennia has been really, really high in magnesium. Now, in our modern day, we are very happy to have clean water, aren't we?
We're, we're very happy to have, um. Pure water to drink. However, it has been stripped of magnesium and other trace minerals, and so everybody everywhere is deficient in magnesium if they are not supplementing. Okay, [00:10:00] so back to this story with this girl. Ask her mom, how long's it been since she had magnesium?
And the mom said, I don't know. She asked the girl, the girl didn't know. I don't know. I don't take magnesium. Well, she had had some really, really hard workouts with the drill team, and her back had gone into a spasm, a huge charlie horse. And the interesting thing is that the, when the back spasms the back
muscles can spasm 10 to 20 times harder than any other muscles in the body.
Haley Freeman: Ooh, ow
Linda Perkes: Course in your calf, 10 to 20 times harder than that. And that's what the kind of pain this girl's in. So I gave her some magnesium, I gave her some trace minerals, some salt water. I like to give my clients, uh, sodium ascorbate, which is a vitamin C that is, uh, non acidic.
Okay? And so we're flooding her body with nutrition. Then we start the massage and [00:11:00] within, I worked on her for probably 90 minutes, which is an average massage time, and she felt so much better. The spasming had stopped. She went home, took a little nap, and then went to school and had an average normal school day.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Linda Perkes: That's how incredible the Magnesium Miracle is. Okay.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Linda Perkes: Yeah, it's pretty awesome. Another cool story, the husband of one of my clients couldn't raise his arm. He hadn't been able to use his arm or raise his arm for weeks and weeks, and he asked his wife, would you think Linda would work on me?
And she brought him over and like I did with the other girl. How long's it been since you had some magnesium? Fortunately, he did take magnesium somewhat sporadically, but we filled his body full of magnesium. I also had learned, to use it topically. So [00:12:00] there's a, a trace mineral substance I used topically on the muscles, and I began massaging him.
Found a knot in the back of his left tricep up in, it's called the quadrangle area. Isn't that a cool word? It's the back of the shoulder where it meets the triceps and I found, uh, it's kind of halfway between a golf ball size and a baseball size knot in his arm. I began massaging it and it took about an hour.
Again, we filled his body full of trace minerals and other things like sodium ascorbate, but I used the, trace minerals and magnesium topically and, pretty soon I said, okay, I can feel that this knot is gone. Um, I'm gonna sidestep and tell you, often people ask me, how do you know where the knots are?
And the answer is, um, muscles that are healthy when I began [00:13:00] manipulating healthy muscles, they feel like a water balloon. They're very flacid
and
pliable. Well, as I am manipulating muscles if I feel an area that feels like a tree limb or I feel an area that feels like day old oatmeal in the fridge, then we know that
that area is, has some restricted blood flow and it's a muscle knot. And so that's where I go to continue manipulating until that area becomes more flacid. But okay, so the man, I think we're done now and I left the room. His wife went into the room to visit with him while he was, putting his clothes on and she said he was jumping up and down, uh, arms in the air and jumping around his underwear.
He was so happy his arm was working, but isn't that cool? For weeks and weeks he couldn't use his arm and within [00:14:00] 45 minutes it was, shall we say, healed. Okay.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Linda Perkes: Cool. Miracle. Another one. This is a fun one. Uh, uh, running partner of one of my clients. This client was training, had already run the Boston Marathon. She had qualified a second time to run the Boston Marathon, and her running partner had also qualified.
So as they began running running partner, I'm not gonna use her real name, we'll call her Sherry. Sherry was getting a lot of pain in her knee and visited a doctor, visited a physical therapist and they said to this girl, Sherry, you're not gonna be able to run the Boston Marathon.
The pain in your knee is too great. We, uh, think that you're gonna need weeks of rest and. You shouldn't run it. Well, she had purchased her plane tickets. She had her number. I said to my client, do you think she'd be willing to come and visit with me for just a half hour? So Sherry came and met with [00:15:00] me. As she's reclining on the table, I find, of course I ask her about her magnesium intake, which was
sporadic, if any, this was years ago. Lots of people know more about magnesium, but back then not as many did. And she had not been consuming much magnesium. Well, I found also literally a baseball size, a between golf ball size and baseball size knot in her, um, right where the right gluteus muscle meets with the IT band.
So up high on the, on the. Um, top of the leg and, uh, the pain in her knee was actually kind of on the inside. Okay. So here I find the knot on the outside of her hip, but the pain on her knee is on the inside. But I said to her, I think we can make a difference here. May, I work with this. And we did the, you know, filter up with [00:16:00] magnesium minerals and
I used the topical minerals and began working with it, and I knew she had a pretty decent pain tolerance because she's a marathon runner, and so I went after it. But I explained to her, here's why I think your knee is hurting, it's like a bedsheet. You think, remember if you're pulling a bedsheet on and all those squares, if, if you pull one corner, um, it can pull off diagonal across the other one.
It can pull
Haley Freeman: Right.
Linda Perkes: Bedsheet off. Well, I think that muscle knot was shortening the muscle enough that it was pulling on the inside of her knee. Yeah. So I got it. It was removed. We got it. Um. Smoothed out and flacid and I said to her, I think you're fine. Go running tomorrow.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Linda Perkes: And I taught her how to continue
treating that muscle so that it wouldn't knot up again. And I'll talk about that in just a second. With heat, ice massage [00:17:00] and whatnot. And she did go jogging the next morning 'cause the marathon was literally two weeks away. She ran the marathon.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Yay.
Linda Perkes: Take care of her muscle and doing these, these things.
She ran the marathon. She said her time wasn't as fast as what she'd hoped, but using some, some minerals and learning how to take care of those muscles. That was a pretty cool miracle
that,
yeah, she defied the medical people that told her not to run. Isn't that fun?
Haley Freeman: Mm-hmm. That's awesome.
Linda Perkes: Our bodies are really cool.
But, uh, what I'd like to share about the muscles is when they tighten up again, because maybe they don't have enough minerals. So I'm so grateful that all over America, everybody's hydrating, right? Everybody's really hydration, and I'm so glad there's a lot of the electrolytes are higher in salt [00:18:00] and that's awesome.
We need a lot of salt. So
Haley Freeman: yeah. This is something I've really learned a lot about 'cause my daughter has POTS.
Linda Perkes: Oh dear. Yeah.
Haley Freeman: And it, yeah, and that's the thing she needs the most is a lot of hydration and a lot of sodium. And so this is something that is in my world a lot right now.
Linda Perkes: Oh, I'm so glad. Well, yeah, we give our animals salt licks
Haley Freeman: Yeah
Linda Perkes: .We give the cows salt lick.
Haley Freeman: Yep. I grew up on a farm dropping off salt licks all the time.
Linda Perkes: And then we humans we're animals too.
Haley Freeman: Yep.
Linda Perkes: Yeah, we need our salt. I'm just really grateful that America is stepping up and having more, hydration and more salt. So, I wanna share that when our muscles are in a spasm, they, uh, are kind of, they spasm like this.
It's like a wash rag. It's being rung out, okay? And they, those silly, cute little myo fibral muscles, they are like runaway horses. Once they start spasming, they get worse and [00:19:00] worse and worse and worse. And something's gotta get in the middle and stop that negative cycle. And the things that can get in the middle and stop that negative cycle are heat, ice, massage, gentle stretching, and gentle exercise.
And so I tell my clients when we're trying to turn a condition around, let's say we've added ice and then the muscle doesn't hurt anymore, we've added ice because the ice gets it to relax and see when it relaxes. Now the blood can run through it and the healing can start. So I like to say with a baby the muscle's hurting.
And I say it's like a baby crying for a bottle. Okay. It's hurting it because it's lacking blood flow. It's crying. It's like a baby crying for a bottle. It's hungry, the muscle's hungry. It doesn't have its blood flow. So when we release it and the blood is moving through there, then it stops hurting [00:20:00] often, like people right on my table, they go from quite a bit of pain to no pain whatsoever.
But then I send 'em out the door and say, now it's your job to keep these muscles healthier and happier. So we want you to do heat, ice, or gentle exercise, gentle stretching or massage. You can use a palm sander with a sock on it as a massage.
Haley Freeman: Wow tool.
Linda Perkes: Isn't that fun?
Haley Freeman: Yeah.
Linda Perkes: Like to say, when you feed a baby a bottle, do you feed the baby only once every two weeks?
Haley Freeman: Never. No.
Linda Perkes: You want to do something to help your muscles every few hours, literally.
Haley Freeman: Oh wow.
Linda Perkes: If you have an area of your body that is been in a kind of a chronic spasm, you really need to do something every few hours. And it doesn't matter which of those things you do. Heat, ice, general exercise, stretching, or
massage. Yeah. So [00:21:00] you need to do one of those things every few hours and you can turn that condition around.
Haley Freeman: Oh, that's good information.
Linda Perkes: Kind of fun to know. I guess I just like to say that our bodies are the greatest miracle. We are the greatest miracle. I love, Og Mandino. Have you ever read his book entitled, the World's Greatest Miracle?
Haley Freeman: Oh, I haven't, we'll have to check that out.
Linda Perkes: Yeah. Og Mandino, years and years ago wrote the book entitled The World's Greatest Miracle and within the first 20 pages, he reveals that humans, humans are the world's greatest miracle.
Haley Freeman: Absolutely.
Linda Perkes: Right. We can walk and we can talk and we can heal, and we are the only creatures with the
You know, hippocampus and the high functioning reasoning. And so we are the greatest miracle and we can for sure reverse conditions. Um,
Haley Freeman: [00:22:00] absolutely. And we are trusted with these bodies and part of our test on earth is how we take care of them. And it is a whole system. Like you said, there's the spiritual, mental, physical, and all of that needs to be in balance for sure.
Linda Perkes: Indeed. In fact, I bet it was 15 years ago, I was listening to general conference on a Saturday morning and the speaker was talking about our bodies and said, our bodies are high maintenance and designed to be so. And when I heard that, I thought, oh, okay. Heavenly Father, you did this to me. My body is high maintenance and designed to be so and so.
Wow. Ever since then, I don't feel guilty when I want to need to spend money on nutrition or supplements or spend money on body work or go to a nature paths or [00:23:00] go get
Haley Freeman: Right
Linda Perkes: help. Um, our bodies are high maintenance and designed to be so.
Haley Freeman: Hmm.
Linda Perkes: Who knew? Wow. Yeah. So another story that happened on my table in my massage room, a woman was due to deliver her fifth child and
her due date was like Sunday, and her husband called me and said, my wife can't even walk. Her leg hurts so bad and her hip hurts so bad. Now, this woman didn't get massages regularly, but um, it's a Friday and I'm leaving on vacation at noon Friday. Oh. And, but I said. Get her here as quick as she can. She got on my table at 10 o'clock and I began massaging her.
Her poor leg was the worst in all the years in the decades I've been working it.
Haley Freeman: [00:24:00] Oh,
Linda Perkes: chronic spasm it. The whole leg in hip felt like a complete tree trunk that was.
Haley Freeman: and pregnant and oh,
Linda Perkes: due to deliver within a few days. Oh, I, I just prayed with all my might, Heavenly Father, what do I do? What do I do? I have less than two hours to help this woman, and it was so great because he told me exactly what to do.
Of course, we fed her more magnesium and trace minerals and I applied trace minerals topically a whole lot. I was dumping these liquid trace minerals on her skin as I'm massaging and within about an hour, that leg went from the worst that I had ever seen to literally the most flacid poster child best muscles.
Of about anybody I'd ever seen. [00:25:00] Wow. and she had the child on Monday.
Haley Freeman: Oh wow.
Linda Perkes: So cool. Huh? Fun miracles. Really great miracles.
Haley Freeman: Well, this is kind of switching gears a little bit but, in your bio it says that you do, hypnotherapy.
And that's intriguing to me. What type of healing have you seen with that?
Linda Perkes: Hey, I'm ready to tell that story. You ready?
Haley Freeman: Oh, I didn't know you even had one prepared. I was just curious.
Linda Perkes: Well, the, the whole story is Okay. I had never in my life thought that hypno therapy wasn't really on my radar.
At all. I had previously, years and years ago, two different friends who were hypnotherapist and I had maybe a couple of sessions from each of them. And let's describe hypnotherapy is not scary. Voodoo, it's
Haley Freeman: right.
Linda Perkes: a guided visualization with a goal.
Haley Freeman: Okay.
Linda Perkes: In fact, in 1958, the American Medical Association [00:26:00] accepted hypnosis therapy as viable therapy.
And to this day, in the American Medical Association, it's considered, accepted, reasonable, rational, viable therapy. Isn't that fun? So, uh, but I had never, it wasn't on my radar well. It was 2019 August, end of August, 2019. I'm climbing the Grand Teton with my son now. I started mountaineering in 2012, so I'd climbed a lot of mountains, Rainier, Mount Olympus in the state of Washington, you know, some 14,000 foot mountains, um, Sneffels in, Colorado, which is considered America's Matterhorn.
So, uh, um. I got sick. I'm on the Grand Teton with my son in 2019, and we have not yet summited and I am feeling very, very ill, very ill. I knew it wasn't hypoglycemia. I knew it wasn't dehydration. I [00:27:00] knew it wasn't high altitude sickness. I, I knew how to treat all those. I'd been climbing for six years and this illness was, I was feeling.
Headache and swaying. Um, loss of balance. Well, I carry B12 with me when I'm climbing because B12 is, uh, molecularly very, very similar to caffeine. And so B12 instead of caffeine when I need a boost for my endurance anyway. We got to the summit. I smiled really pretty for the camera, but I'm feeling really sick and then high tailing it down as I am trying to get down off that summit.
The Grand Tetons, 13,000 700, 777, something like that. And I thought, well, maybe if I can get down to lower elevation, 10,000, 9,000. Um, 8,000 all feel better, even though I [00:28:00] knew it didn't feel like altitude. I still wanted to get down lower. Well as I'm descending and I still feel horrible. I am swaying like a drunken sailor.
Um, as we're walking along a trail and I'm carrying a, you know, 45 pound pack. My son is behind me because I'm swaying so badly. He's ready to catch my pack because he doesn't want me to fall off the trail. That's how badly I was. Whoa. Um, but I'm praying. Heavenly Father, please take this away. There have been quite a number of experiences where I've been on a mountain and I've prayed and asked for help, and He has granted my wish this time.
He said, I said, please take this illness away from me, and He said, no.
Oh,
you must suffer this. There is a purpose in your suffering. No.
Oh. Oh [00:29:00]
gee. Thanks. Um, love you. Heavenly Father. Okay, so we get down off the mountain. I spend the night at my son's. He lived in Wyoming at the time. And I was able to, uh, drive home the next afternoon.
I thought, well, maybe it's vertigo and even I took medicine as if it were sea sickness. I took boning or whatever that stuff is. Anyway, nothing helped. So I scheduled an appointment with an ear, nose, and throat person because I thought maybe, again, I thought maybe it's vertigo. We know that crystals in the ear can stuck and I wanted them to do, it's called the Epley maneuver and check me for vertigo.
So I was in the ear, nose and throat specialist's office. They had done that maneuver and they said, no, it's not vertigo. So I am sitting by myself in the office waiting for them to come back and talk to me some more. And I was, praying. I said, okay, [00:30:00] Heavenly Father, I get it that you're not gonna take this malady away from me, but I need to know what it is.
What is it I'm dealing with? And the spirit said, close your eyes. So I closed my eyes and the spirit said, notice your body. And as I closed my eyes, I felt like I was on a ship. I was, wow. Even though I was not moving at all, I felt like I was a
Haley Freeman: swaying
Linda Perkes: rocking on a ship.
Haley Freeman: Yeah.
Linda Perkes: When the doctor came in, a female ear, nose, and throat, specialist, she said. We really can't figure out what is going on with you. And I said, I have a bit of data that it just occurred to me to tell you. And she said, what's that? I said, when I close my eyes, I feel like I'm swaying. She said, oh, you have Mal de Debarquement. Whoa, okay. What's Mal de Debarquement? Mal de Debarquement is such a rare neurological condition that
uh, [00:31:00] most people who develop this malady go to 10 or 12 different doctors. They struggle for a long time, months, if not years, to figure out what's wrong with them. And I think because I prayed, I was diagnosed in a nanosecond.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Linda Perkes: So they sent me to occupational therapy. They wanted me taking sedatives at night to calm my central nervous, and, um, nothing worked, nothing helped.
I was just basically seasick on dry land. So some some of the research I did said that if a person has Mal de Debarquement sometimes it can spontaneously disappear. If the person has it for longer than a year, they're probably gonna have it for life. And people go on federal disability with this neurological condition because it's that bad.
Haley Freeman: Oh,
Linda Perkes: there's the headache, the nausea, right? No appetite. And, um,
Haley Freeman: awful
Linda Perkes: So to make the story [00:32:00] short, it had now been almost two years.
Haley Freeman: Oh.
Linda Perkes: Every day I woke up and said, Heavenly Father, has a higher purpose been fulfilled yet? Will you heal me yet? Will you heal me?
Haley Freeman: Oh,
Linda Perkes: yeah. I was, I, I still functioned. I still gave massages.
I still worked, but I just felt horrible and, um. One morning I'm sitting at the kitchen counter with my head and my hands with the headache and the nausea and trying to have a good attitude. I'm thinking, if this is my life, right? A lot of people have a, a life that's a lot worse. Let's have a good attitude.
Let's suffer. Right? Suffer with dignity. Um, I, I'm holding my head in my hands and I hear the voice say, wonder if hypnosis could heal Mal de Debarquement. And I thought, what? Why haven't I thought of that before? [00:33:00] I instantly, I sprang into action. I texted some friends who do you know, who's a hypnosis therapist?
Because I'd lost contact with the other two people. Well, one of them had passed away of a brain tumor, but I'd lost contact with the other ones. And before the end of the day, I had the number of, a reputable hypnosis therapist here in Cash Valley and in 48 hours I was sitting in her office and she was talking with me and working with me.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Linda Perkes: The doctors had said in these two years, you know, with this condition, it would be best if you never got on a boat again, as long as you live. Well, I live for boating, I water ski. Oh. Constantly. So I thought, that's not gonna help, that's not gonna happen. So I was actually taking a lot of anti-nausea medicines and I was still boating.
And if I felt really, really really horrible. I just say to my husband, drop [00:34:00] me off on the shore, and I'd sit on the shore for a while, but then I can boat. 'cause that's just
Haley Freeman: wow.
Linda Perkes: What brings me joy, right? Yeah. Anyway, this hypnosis therapist, we'll call her Trina.
I was leaving to go on a boating trip to go to Flaming Gorge in a week, and she said, I'd like to see you again. So she did hypnosis for me, two hypnosis sessions and I went to Flaming Gorge. I was healed.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Linda Perkes: Completely, 100%. Totally healed.
Haley Freeman: In two sessions,
Linda Perkes: two hypnosis sessions, I was healed from a rare neurological condition of which there is no cure.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Linda Perkes: So when I got back from Flaming Gorge, I met with her again because I had purchased a package of four sessions and we worked on something different this time and afterward before I [00:35:00] left, I was so excited and I asked her, would you please take me as an apprentice. I now wanted more than anything to help other people as dramatically as she had helped me.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Linda Perkes: The story short, she did take me on as an apprentice and I became trained and began working on other people in early 2023, and that's my story of that, of healing.
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Linda Perkes: And what's really cool is. Again, we can overcome anything. Of course, if it's God's will, right, right,
Haley Freeman: right.
Linda Perkes: But it is how cool for us to have the mindset
I'm gonna beat this, whatever it is, I'm gonna overcome this. I'm gonna beat this with God's help. That's a pretty great mindset to [00:36:00] have.
Haley Freeman: Yeah.
Linda Perkes: And so yeah, hypnosis is a reasonable and viable therapy that is accepted by the American Medical Association.
Haley Freeman: I love that. That's very cool.
Linda Perkes: Thank you for asking.
Haley Freeman: Yeah. Thank you for sharing. Do you have any tips or advice for anybody that has maybe been going through some of the similar trials that you've been going through?
Linda Perkes: Yeah. The advice I would have is never give up.
Haley Freeman: Yeah.
Linda Perkes: Never, never, never give up. And the advice is our mind is so much more powerful
than any of us realize. Right. And so, um, there were a lot of years I was reading books like Norman Vincent Peale The Power of Positive Thinking, and um, the Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy, right there, there are thousands of books out now to help us, teach us the [00:37:00] power of positive thinking because we all know that our body can and will respond to our thoughts. Okay. Another story. I was participating in a duathlon. So what's a duathlon? You run, I think we were running five miles, hop on a bike, bike for 16 miles and then run another five miles and Wow. In this duathlon I had done the running five miles and I don't love to run guys. I don't love to.
But, so it's not my favorite thing to do, but biking is my favorite, but, well, skiing's my favorite, but we will go on from there. In the middle of the bike ride, no, three-fourths the way through the bike ride, I get a cramp in my right leg that is a severe charlie horse cramp and you don't recover in the middle of
an event like that, you don't recover [00:38:00] from a severe cramp. I knew I had to withdraw, you know?
Haley Freeman: Wow.
Linda Perkes: Get off the bike and withdraw instead. Instead, I said, Heavenly Father, please, please, I need some magnesium right now. I need a lot of magnesium. Please. Will you let me breathe in magnesium molecules from the air?
Haley Freeman: Whoa
Linda Perkes: in magnesium molecules and I just was breathing and believing and breathing and believing and talking to my leg. And I finished the bike ride and completed the second, part of it, the other five mile run and took first place in my age category.
Haley Freeman: Wow. That's amazing.
Linda Perkes: Oh, you guys believe,
Haley Freeman: Believe.
Yep. I love that. Do you have one final message that you want someone to take away?
Linda Perkes: Yes. Yes. Okay. I am gonna sing a darling little [00:39:00] song that I teach to children. Okay. Actually, a massage therapist taught this song to me and, uh, she taught this to her children during COVID. Ready for this adorable song.
And when I get, sad or frustrated or sick, it's just the easiest song. I taught this to a kindergarten teacher, that kindergarten teacher's now in heaven. She's an angel now, but, she taught it to her kindergarten children. So you ready?
Haley Freeman: Yeah.
Linda Perkes: Every little cell in my body is healthy. Every little cell in my body is well.
Every little cell in my body is healthy. Every little cell in my body is well. I'm so glad every cell is healthy. I'm so glad every cell is well. I'm so glad every cell is healthy. I'm so glad every cell is well. Every little cell in my body is healthy. Every little cell in my body is well. Every little cell in my body is healthy.
Every little cell in my body is [00:40:00] well.
Haley Freeman: I love that. That is so wonderful. And then you're like, you the power of the thoughts and
Linda Perkes: It's awesome. Yes.
Haley Freeman: Healing those cells for those kids. I love it. Beautiful. Well, Linda, thank you so much for being with us and those messages are so healing. And you're right, the power of our thoughts are more than we could even imagine.
Linda Perkes: Yes. Thank you for having me, and please invite me again anytime because I have thousands of miracles to share.
Haley Freeman: I know you do. Thank you again.
Linda Perkes: Buh bye
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