THE VISIONARIES

Dr. Jill Kahn

"Electrifying Catalyst for Self-Healing"

www.DrJillKahn.com

"It's all good!" That's "Dr. Jill's" delightful mantra accompanied by a hearty laugh that comes into my head and my soul whenever I think of the petite dynamo of a whole health practitioner. She couldn't be over five feet two, yet gives the impression of being ten feet tall in energy, presence, joy-filled exuberance. She's magnetic and attracts clients from all over the world to her chiropractic table in East Cobb, Marietta, Georgia, but they don't come just for a spinal adjustment. They come for a dose of her optimism and wisdom and visionary insights into their bodies and very beings. She sees beyond what's on the surface. She reads bodies and she reads souls. She teaches people how to listen to what their bodies are telling them, which usually involves the emotional and psychological roots of their pain. Some say she's a miracle worker. She'd say we all are. She's here to show us how. She's widely recognized for leading thousands, including the "incurable," back into abundance and wellness. She combines her medical knowledge, her intuitive gifts and her powerful interactive guided realizations to reconnect people with their spirit and purpose so they can make their true health connections.

She has an impressive record. She helped her friend Carmen heal herself of Stage 4 breast cancer. She has helped many others lead themselves out of seemingly dire situations. It all started when so many people started coming to her with cancer-including her own father with the most aggressive lung cancer and a prognosis of a year to live and her own husband Danny, who had a malignant brain tumor. She prayed fervently to God, "Please help me help all these people on a higher level!" The prayer was answered. She started getting messages. For six days and nights, the messages kept coming, and she could not sleep, barely ate, writing on a tablet furiously, trying to keep up with the stream of information. On the seventh day, she rested. She had stacks and stacks of hand-written notes. She typed them up, but prayed now that the universe would send her someone to help her put it into book form.

I was up in Flowery Branch, Georgia, on Lake Lanier, writing in my 90-year-old mother's basement, and taking care of her-or maybe she was taking care of me. That's a whole other story. One day in 2000, I got a call at four in the afternoon from my friend Geri Taran, founder of Georgia Writers. "Mardeene, you've got to come to this publishing party in Marietta. The Gazette is celebrating the launch of its new women's section and I'm the editor. Bring your book!" "Great," I said, "is it next week?" "No, it's at 6 o'clock tonight. I just found out I could invite somebody." That was pretty spur-of-the-moment and Marietta was a good hour and a half away on a rainy night. The old me would have declined. But the new me was getting into the habit of saying YES whenever I get an intriguing invitation out of the blue. Feels like a summons, a call to destiny perhaps? I grabbed the book, which I had co-authored with Dr. Sheldon Z. Kramer, Ph.D. (another story on this site), Hidden Faces of the Soul: 10 Secrets for Mind/Body Healing from Kabbalah's Lost Tree of Life. I was proud of our book, endorsed by Deepak Chopra, which I had sold to Paula Munier at Adams Media Corp. in Boston.

The party was a blast! Great food, fabulous people there, making so much of me and our book. This tiny dark-haired beauty pipes up, "You're the one who wrote this book? That must be why I came here. I never come to these things. You're supposed to help me write MY book!" I smiled. You can't not smile around Jill. However, 1) I've learned to not be overly enthusiastic initially with so many people out there who say they have a book idea but never really follow through. 2) My mother was getting ready to pass on and I just had had one hurtful experience with a male client who fired me because I ended up in the hospital with my mom instead of getting his pages to him that day. I decided if I were going to be able to take on a new project at this time, it would have to be with a person with compassion. I told her, "I'm probably not available as we speak, but here's my card and let's do talk about what you need." She told me later, her heart dropped when I didn't say yes right away. When we did get together soon, however, it was immediately obvious that this woman had a book-a darn good one-that she was more than serious, she was passionate-and that I suddenly had a burning desire to be the one to help her develop her important messages into the structure of a book. Plus, when I mentioned my mom to her, I swear she turned into this huge generous red heart! "Isn't that beautiful that you two are together! Such an important time. That will be the most important thing. We can be flexible in getting the book done. It's all good." My whole being relaxed and we agreed to move forward together on her project.

We both laugh about the bumps in the road at first. A book collaboration is a new process for most people. It's very common, understandably so, for a new author to be worried about what an editor is going to do to their book. There is a real fear that it will become something different than they envisioned, not be "theirs" anymore. Writing coach that I am, I reassured her, "Just trust the process, Jill, we'll be fine." Now I was talking her language, we both had the same belief system, and she did and we did. Working together became magical, mystical-like a religious experience. She said I was the only one who had ever been able to keep up with her. The feeling was mutual. We were One.

Her message was that so many people give and give and do everything "right" but then wonder why do they feel less than? Then it came to her. "We've got it all backwards!" she exclaimed. The vision that came to her was "It's not about the giving, it's about the taking! Mirror Mother Nature. Think of the tree. (I got chills on that one. I had just helped Sheldon write a whole book on the Tree of Life teachings). The tree doesn't' think about what it's going to give or to whom. It doesn't ask, I wonder if the people in Japan or the U.S. or India need more oxygen? All it does is take what it needs-sunlight, soil, rain-to replenish itself. Then to maintain its balance it overflows its surplus as the gift-oxygen-our breath of life." If we first take what we need, then we, too, will overflow with our gifts and abundance for the world. Wow. What a concept. Her well-received book, The Gift of Taking: Honor Yourself First...All Else Will Follow she self-published in 2001. She had spent two weeks with her dad before his lung cancer surgery, meditating, visualizing him well, eating nutritious food. When they went in, there was no tumor to be removed. Her husband is also very well, whole, tumor gone, partly as a result of his life-affirming decision to pursue his musical career.

Overflowing with her gift to the world, Jill generated inspiring gatherings, she called Pep Rally for Your Spirit (to soothe souls after 9/11) at her temple. She's an uplifting, dynamic speaker-mesmerizing, energizing. It was so moving and seemed significant to me that we two spirited women-not men, one of us not even Jewish-were speaking together in a temple! She opened the stage to other like-minded speakers who offered their gifts as well-- including her talented husband, guitarist, singer, composer, Danny Kahn. I felt so at home there. We all did. We all experienced the oneness.

You may get in touch with Dr. Jill at her website, www.DrJillKahn.com, where you may also order a copy of her book, which will inspire you to honor the beautiful creation that you are and joyfully reclaim your precious life for optimum health and well-being!