Success Stories
Success Stories.
Personal reflections shared by people describing their own healing journeys, experiences and the support they received along the way.
Building Confidence.
I came to Margaret Schwanzer some twenty two years ago purely by default. The animal behaviourist we consulted with, for our two new pups suggested Margaret do a session to get some info from the one pup who suddenly started having frequent seizures.
Wendy, the behaviourist would be the surrogate. All they needed was a photo of our cutie pie and a snip of her hair in an envelope, untouched by human hands! I was a very practical person, meaning I had to be able to see, hear and touch things. I had virtually no understanding of the spiritual world and alternate medicine and healing was completely foreign to me! Nevertheless, I was willing to give it a try as I was desperate for help. My late husband, on the other hand, was not at all keen and paid no credence to what he called “this uger buger stuff”…..until the process started!
After the first session, Wendy reported back to us with some very interesting and accurate information that neither she nor Margaret could have known. And so my journey with Margaret began, as did my spiritual journey. After the third session that Wendy acted as the surrogate, it came out that each appointment was 2 hours long. I had no idea and then felt that it was not right for us to keep imposing on her.
My husband, Nate and I decided to continue the process, travelling quite a distance once a month to help heal our precious pup. We were guided to a homeopathic vet who managed to get the seizures under control and so there was no need for us to continue with the appointments at Margaret.
Some six years later, out of the blue, I received an email from Margaret in which she said that I’d been in her thoughts and asked if I was ok? How could she know that just a couple of months earlier my dear Nate, the one and only love of my life had passed away? I’d waited twelve years for him until the time was right for us to marry. And just like that, in a blink of an eye, not even ten years later, he was snatched from me.
I was a broken person! Shattered! Unable to function! But, I had to! So, I didn’t allow myself to feel and began operating in survival mode. Margaret, compassionately offered to help me, even knowing I was struggling financially.
Most of the beginning of my healing is a blurr. However, over the years, I do remember Margaret using a variety of techniques as I made progress. I do remember always feeling safe and calm whenever I visited her. And, so the time went on. I started to feel less desperate and slowly, slowly more able to manage my life.
Margaret has seen me through the loss of my darling mother, just a few months after Nate left me. She has seen me through the loss of four of my precious fur babies, two of them at the exact same time. Without judgment, she has worked through silly relationships with me. She has assisted me when all my family emigrated, leaving me completely on my own!
Margaret has assisted me in changing jobs – one of them causing me extreme stress and unhappiness. She has helped me build my confidence and self worth over the years and continues to do so each time I see her.
Margaret is now guiding me in dealing with staff as I have recently been promoted to a management position.
It is 10 years on, and I still visit Margaret, albeit less frequently. Why? Because now we also laugh together!
Finding Myself.
I started seeking assistance after ending a traumatic relationship, followed by having to have my eggs retrieved via IVF and then being operated on to remove stage 4 endometriosis from my body.
Understandably, my body and my mind were in crisis, and I knew a normal doctor/GP wasn’t enough in this situation, because after everything I went through, for all intents and purposes, I was “healthy” and somehow I was led to Margaret Schwanzer.
Being a more spiritual-based person finding Margaret was a godsend for me because I was able to share my experiences and my need to heal my mind and body from the trauma openly and freely with her.
I have also always felt safe to share with her whatever was on my mind, which is important in my healing journey, no matter how ashamed or sad I may have felt over/because of something.
To this day I don’t know how I found Margaret, it could only be through some divine intervention that I was led to her and I have stayed working with her since December 2016 (nearly 6 years at the time of writing this).
For me, this makes having Margaret a part of my healing journey even more special.
Once we had worked on my immediate trauma and healed it I started working on trauma from my childhood and then my day-to-day life, such as work and family etc.
We have also worked on building a better future for myself, working on being the best version of myself today. Nearly 6 years later you can imagine we have covered and explored many areas of my life that I wanted to heal and transform with her help and I am a far cry from the person I was when I first met Margaret.
I am so grateful for all that she has helped me to heal and achieve on my journey. Thank you, Margaret.
My 21 Year Healing With Margaret.
Faced with writing down my story initially left me spinning because how do I put into words this healing journey that started in the Summer of 2001 and remains the cornerstone of my life to this day.
I was referred to Margaret at the lowest point in my life, having faced the breakup of a long-term relationship 3 months prior and relocating to a new town, I was lonely, despondent about the future and desperate to ‘fix’ me as I couldn’t bear the thought of another failed relationship.
What transpired after that first session was a revelation and the journey of transformation and re-connection with the girl I lost along the way.
Margaret is an inspiration and the best way to describe the feeling I have in her presence is like being cocooned in a warm, safe blanket while she guides you through your deepest fears and heavy feelings without judgement.
Her advice is tailored to meet the needs of your inner wisdom and for your highest good.
She has become my beacon of hope as I have navigated the deep waters grieving the loss of my parents, emigration, career change and roller coaster of parenthood and marriage over the past 20 years.
She is my safe harbour for all the challenges life has brought my way and remains the person I trust the most to guide me honestly and safely when triggered and emotional to process and heal in a calm and rational way.
Healing is a messy and difficult journey and I know 1000 times over that I would never have found the strength to change what I could, accept what I couldn’t and live my life with the purpose and clarity that I do today without the love and support of Margaret.
I wish you all the best on your healing journey as you trust Margaret to guide YOU to find YOU again and live your best life on your terms.
In light and love.
Gloria’s Journey.
My story starts long after most of the events that shaped my life took place. It starts with reaching rock bottom and a realization that something in my life had to change.
At this time, I was working for an organisation that did not see and appreciate all the skills and experience that I had to offer. I was over-worked, underpaid, over-stressed and in fact completely burnt out.
I felt that I was undeserving of my awesome, loving husband who was the only one keeping me standing.
It was only when I was sitting in a corner of the bathroom, unable to get myself off the floor, crying so much and so long that I couldn’t breathe anymore that I realized how low I was.
A friend of mine introduced me to her kinesiologist (Margaret) and I thought – “what the hell, I have nothing to lose”. I made an appointment for this treatment that I knew absolutely nothing about and started a journey that would completely transform my life.
During the past decade, with Margaret walking besides me, I’ve faced historical family trauma (rejection, physical and emotional abuse), the death of beloved pets and family members, break-ins at our house, car accidents, job changes and starting my own business.
I’ve learnt skills to cope with my limiting beliefs of not being good enough and having to do everything perfect to be loved, accepted, and appreciated.
I believe that the holistic therapy offered by Margaret has been the change I needed. There is not just a focus on exploring how bad your childhood was or how bad your current situation is.
The focus of our sessions remains on what we can do to make it better, look towards the future while acknowledging the present situation with all the emotions linked to it. Having someone who sees everything from a different angle, from outside of the situation really makes it all work.
I have realized that my sessions every 4-6 weeks are not a luxury, it is absolutely necessary to help me focus on what I can change and to remind me that I am an awesome, strong, beautiful woman who can do anything that I put my mind to.