Healing You With Love is a new book from Jodi Suboor, mom, wife, energy practitioner, and survivor of life. It is part memoir and part personal development book. In it, Jodi shares her personal story of growing up and how, after her parents’ divorce, she felt unloved and as if she had to do everything she could to please others while she let herself her needs were ignored.
However, this book is more than a memoir. Jodi reveals the deepest wounds to his heart and soul, honestly exploring the pain life can bring us and how that pain all too often leads to poor coping decisions. For Jodi, those bad decisions often included relationships with men who took advantage of her. Fortunately, she Jodi stayed strong and learned from every experience from her, including how not to treat others since she didn’t like how they treated her.
To add to her struggle, Jodi experienced not one, but two traumatic car accidents that nearly killed her and forced her to learn a great deal about both the physical and emotional healing process. Yet each difficult experience her life threw at her was only preparing her for the next, often more horrifying experience. Or maybe the next gift from her in her life, because eventually, Jodi realized that the Universe wasn’t letting things happen “to” her but “for” her.
Jodi’s life has not been all tragedy. She met and fell in love with a wonderful man who became her husband, and they had a son together. But her husband’s diagnosis of pancreatic cancer made the happiness short-lived, as Jodi went into survivor-caregiver mode. She would drive her husband to and from appointments while he held a bucket for her to vomit. And even this was only setting her up for more pain after her death.
Eventually, Jodi remarried, only to find herself caring for her elderly and dying mother-in-law. Clearly, the Universe thought there was nothing Jodi wasn’t capable of, and she emerges from these stories as strong, positive, and giving. Today, happily married and the mother of two children, she has learned to heal many of her past relationships.
Jodi is a hero to me, someone who has figured out how to take the worst the world has to offer and not just refuse to give up, but find the good in it. She has learned to attract the good into her life and shares those strategies. She has learned techniques to heal mind, body and soul, and in her story we can find many tools to help us survive our own obstacles.
Each chapter of Healing You With Love ends with a toolbox section that shifts focus from Jodi to the reader, asking us to reflect on what we’ve read and how it can be applied to our own lives. Tools are offered to help us resolve issues that may be keeping us from enjoying life, including reassessing the past, unlearning old coping strategies, and adopting new, healthier ones.
This book will resonate with moms, wives, widows, people who have a hard time finding love, caregivers, and anyone who has had a really hard time in life. Jodi shows how even in the midst of chaos, we can come to know that the Universe has our back and is guiding us where we need to be. His story is one of intense struggle but also incredible gifts, and ultimately one of the most calming and life-affirming books I’ve ever read. As Jodi quotes Gary Zukav near the end of the book: “Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals all and that love is all there is.”
If you’re going through something right now, I hope you’ll read Healing It With Love so you can find some of the answers you’re looking for. I truly believe that this book will make a difference in many lives.