Awareness Turned into Action

My husband and I had been struggling with secondary infertility for three years when I first came across Reform Wellness. I saw a post on social media about a workshop on Balancing Hormones and thought maybe there was something new here since they claimed to be rooted in Christ. Within the first five minutes of the class, I had tears in my eyes. I knew this was an answered prayer, and I wanted to know more about Reform Online.  

Taking Reform Online for me was all about awareness. There was a lot of wonderful information; the nine wellness pillars were eye-opening, and I knew that this was where the Lord wanted me to be. I really wanted to reform my health through all the pillars at once, but I quickly came to realize through prayer that this wasn’t possible. The Lord wanted me to focus on one at a time, following His timing. The Reform team also helped me realize that this would be a journey that was worth it, and that the Lord has His own timing on my healing.

As I went through Reform Online, I believe the greatest area of my life that improved as a result of regaining ownership of my health is my relationships with the Lord. I started giving Him the chance to offer me His peace and allow Him to have more space in my life, which in turn made my day-to-day activities and needs of my vocation less stressful. This led me to focus on making my prayer time more consistent in my day-to-day duties. From there, I became aware that my mental health was not where it needed to be, so I found a company that offers services rooted in Christ as well.  The mental healing that has accompanied me on this journey has been a blessing and has even trickled into my family life. Through Reform Online, I became aware of what needed to change in my life to become more reliant on Christ, and the only way I was going to be able to do that was for the Lord to lead me Himself. 

I was blessed to take Dig to the Roots shortly after Reform Online. I was most excited to work with the Reform team to work on a plan to help dig up my physical symptoms. I was running low on energy, my skin wasn’t clear, and my cycles were not consistent, which led to infertility. I remember praying that I needed the Lord to make what He wanted very clear to me, and I later felt it was for me to focus on my nutrition. As I followed my new protocol and nutritional plan, I found I had more energy during the day, my mind wasn’t foggy, my skin was clearing up, and about halfway through the course my cycles returned and were becoming more consistent. The one thing I wasn’t expecting was for the Lord to continue healing my soul. I was encouraged to find a way to incorporate play into my Dig to the Roots journey, and I found an adult tap class. I tapped as a little girl, and I didn’t know that those joyous memories would come flooding back to me. In those moments, I felt God the Father say that He delighted in my joy, that He delighted in me.  

During my Dig to the Roots journey, I was called to go on the Totus Tuus Retreat on Long Island. It was here where I felt Mary speak to my heart, asking me to stay in this space of living out the Reform way of life. With Christ at the center of everything, all will be well. I have continued giving the Lord my “yes” every day in some small way or another. I wanted to be a disciple of our Lord and have an intimate friendship with Him, and Reform has helped me find the narrow way to reform my life to focus on Him.

Following all these experiences,  I am now more inclined to think of how to involve Christ in all aspects of my life—not just in my faith life but my physical and mental life as well.  It’s not separate; they are all connected, and if one is disconnected from the Lord, then in a sense they all are. I am most proud of the revamping of my prayer life, especially with morning and evening prayer times; I shifted my mindset from “Prayer is just another thing on my to-do list” to “Prayer is something I want to do so I can get my to-do list done well.”

The most significant lesson I’ve learned from my healing journey is that the path isn’t straight and narrow, but even so the Lord is with me every step of the way. If there’s one word to describe how I feel following Reform, it’s “alive”—I’m fully alive, and the Holy Spirit is still working in me.

—Melissa Landowski

 Snohomish, Washington