“I believe people do not have to suffer.”
~Wendy Jo Morrison~
Wendy studied Nursing for four years at Madonna University and graduated with a BS in Psychology in 1996. Wendy received her MA in Industrial Organizational Psychology in April 1998. She then joined the United States Peace Corps in November 1998. After completing the Peace Corps, she returned to the United States and worked as a Director / VP of Human Resources for the next 15 years.
Wendy is living proof that terminal illness does not have to be a death sentence. Wendy was diagnosed with Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) in 2010. MSA is a terminal, degenerative and progressive brain disease with no known cause and no known cure. There is no treatment for MSA, and it does not go into remission. Most MSA patients succumb to the disorder or its complications within 6-8 years of diagnosis. Wendy, like most MSA patients, was deteriorating rapidly. Three years after her diagnosis, Wendy was in extreme debilitating pain and she was told that she needed to have a permanent pain implant placed in her spinal cord. Despite being desperate for relief, having the recommended procedure was unacceptable to Wendy. It was at that point that Wendy made a decision to say yes to life, to say goodbye to negative energy and to embrace her body’s innate ability to heal. This will to live, was familiar to Wendy, she had experienced it at another point in her life when she was kidnapped and assaulted at gunpoint in 1993.
Wendy is a survivor: a week before her kidnapping, she randomly watched an Oprah episode that provided tips on what to do when kidnapped. With this knowledge and with the help of the Michigan State Police, Wendy survived her ordeal. Wendy has gone on to help other crime victims. She is a victims’ advocate and frequently speaks on behalf of victims to those involved in law enforcement and victims’ rights.
Wendy has strong relationships with other professionals that support victims of crime and trauma. She is an avid Presumptive Parole Victims’ Advocate, and she partners with the Michigan Attorney General’s office in this capacity. In 2016, Wendy filmed a documentary with the Discover Channel about her abduction. Watch the full episode of Wendy’s survival story here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rDgxIWVEyexcNIYWR0WH-h2E5-5LK19H
After getting back in touch with her strong survival instincts, Wendy left the country in search of holistic healing modalities not offered in the United States. Wendy’s transformational cellular level healing began at her first Biodynamic Breath and Trauma Release (BBTR) workshop in Greece. After experiencing the modality, Wendy was given the opportunity to become certified in BBTR. She is currently the only individual certified in this modality in the United States. BBTR allows organically interrupted trauma responses to be gently completed, which restores vitality and flow to the body.
It’s important to note that despite the tragic nature of Wendy’s kidnapping, assault and terminal diagnosis, trauma is trauma. Much less dramatic forms of trauma have just as much ability to result in unexplained physical and emotional manifestations and illnesses. Trauma is most simply defined as a feeling of helplessness. In today’s society, even healthy responses to a threat—fight or flight—can be prolonged to the point that they become toxic. The real problem; however, is in another form of stress response—the freeze response. Being frozen in helplessness, unable to respond to a threat is a sure way to trap trauma and its effects in the body.
Knowing that others suffer under the weight of trauma they’ve experienced, Wendy has spent the last four years bringing this modality to the United States. She has surrounded herself with like-minded individuals who are equally committed to restoring hope to victims of trauma and their support systems.
Wendy feels strongly that the 1993 assault, combined with the MSA diagnosis in 2010 pointed the way to her life’s purpose. After receiving her BBTR certification and putting a team together, UBU Today was born. UBU Today is committed to promoting holistic forms of healing, educating the public about the benefits they provide, and offering this alternative to those who seek it.
Wendy studied Nursing for four years at Madonna University and graduated with a BS in Psychology in 1996. Wendy received her MA in Industrial Organizational Psychology in April 1998. She then joined the United States Peace Corps in November 1998. After completing the Peace Corps, she returned to the United States and worked as a Director / VP of Human Resources for the next 15 years.
http://wendyjomorrison.com/
Wendy is living proof that terminal illness does not have to be a death sentence. Wendy was diagnosed with Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) in 2010. MSA is a terminal, degenerative and progressive brain disease with no known cause and no known cure. There is no treatment for MSA, and it does not go into remission. Most MSA patients succumb to the disorder or its complications within 6-8 years of diagnosis. Wendy, like most MSA patients, was deteriorating rapidly. Three years after her diagnosis, Wendy was in extreme debilitating pain and she was told that she needed to have a permanent pain implant placed in her spinal cord. Despite being desperate for relief, having the recommended procedure was unacceptable to Wendy. It was at that point that Wendy made a decision to say yes to life, to say goodbye to negative energy and to embrace her body’s innate ability to heal. This will to live, was familiar to Wendy, she had experienced it at another point in her life when she was kidnapped and assaulted at gunpoint in 1993.
Wendy is a survivor: a week before her kidnapping, she randomly watched an Oprah episode that provided tips on what to do when kidnapped. With this knowledge and with the help of the Michigan State Police, Wendy survived her ordeal. Wendy has gone on to help other crime victims. She is a victims’ advocate and frequently speaks on behalf of victims to those involved in law enforcement and victims’ rights. Some of Wendy’s efforts on behalf of crime/abuse victims are:
Honored guest speaker at the Michigan State Police-Sexual Assault Forensic Science Division event—Remembering Our Purpose
Guest Speaker for Department of Health and Human Services (DDHS) 2016-Debi Cain/James McCurtis – Director
Truth Train Radio Appearance: http://www.downyoutubeinmp4.net/watch?v=EocV3e-Q8Y8
Wendy has strong relationships with other professionals that support victims of crime and trauma. She is an avid Presumptive Parole Victims’ Advocate, and she partners with the Michigan Attorney General’s office in this capacity. In 2016, Wendy filmed a documentary with the Discover Channel about her abduction.
Watch the full episode of Wendy’s survival story here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rDgxIWVEyexcNIYWR0WH-h2E5-5LK19H
After getting back in touch with her strong survival instincts, Wendy left the country in search of holistic healing modalities not offered in the United States. Wendy’s transformational cellular level healing began at her first Biodynamic Breath and Trauma Release (BBTR) workshop in Greece. After experiencing the modality, Wendy was given the opportunity to become certified in BBTR. She is currently the only individual certified in this modality in the United States. BBTR allows organically interrupted trauma responses to be gently completed, which restores vitality and flow to the body.
It’s important to note that despite the tragic nature of Wendy’s kidnapping, assault and terminal diagnosis, trauma is trauma. Much less dramatic forms of trauma have just as much ability to result in unexplained physical and emotional manifestations and illnesses. Trauma is most simply defined as a feeling of helplessness. In today’s society, even healthy responses to a threat—fight or flight—can be prolonged to the point that they become toxic. The real problem; however, is in another form of stress response—the freeze response. Being frozen in helplessness, unable to respond to a threat is a sure way to trap trauma and its effects in the body.
Knowing that others suffer under the weight of trauma they’ve experienced, Wendy has spent the last four years bringing this modality to the United States. She has surrounded herself with like-minded individuals who are equally committed to restoring hope to victims of trauma and their support systems.
Wendy feels strongly that the 1993 assault, combined with the MSA diagnosis in 2010 pointed the way to her life’s purpose. After receiving her BBTR certification and putting a team together, UBU Today was born. UBU Today is committed to promoting holistic forms of healing, educating the public about the benefits they provide, and offering this alternative to those who seek it.
Through Wendy’s efforts, UBU Today is currently working with partners who will be sending Victim Advocates from the Crime Victims’ Rights Association (CVRA), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the Department of Defense, WC SAFE (a Wayne County agency that provides sexual assault services), and LACASA (a Livingston County, Michigan organization that provides services for survivors of child abuse, domestic violence and sexual assault). Those Victim Advocates will use the modalities that UBU Today provides to heal their own trauma along with the vicarious trauma they carry with them because of what they see, hear and experience related to their work with victims. UBU Today will then begin doing this breakthrough, holistic work with clients of those agencies—the victims themselves—crime victims, veterans, domestic abuse survivors, and others. UBU Today’s partnerships with local agencies are part of their long-term commitment to make a difference in their community and to neutralize the effects of trauma within our society.
Wendy is currently heading a funding campaign, which will be used to purchase property to build her envisioned UBU Today Tree House Trauma Recovery Center. She plans to locate the center on 22 acres of property in Brighton, Michigan. Why a tree house recovery center? Wendy believes that letting go of that which is holding us back gives us a new perspective, just as going up into the trees allows us to see things that wouldn’t be visible from the ground. Tree houses take us to an elevated place. They also represent rising above what contains and restricts us. In dream interpretation, building a tree house symbolizes a desire to understand the inner self—to go deep inside our subconscious mind to gain control of our inner world—a perfect representation of the work Wendy does through UBU Today.
Wendy’s dedication and vision for UBU Today has inspired others to volunteer to serve the needs of others as well. Wendy has put together a team of individuals who are dedicated to providing service to trauma victims and to those who serve them. The UBU Today team is made up of people who first experienced what UBU Today does as participants.
Here is what UBU Today participants have to say about the work that we do, and the environment of caring that Wendy has created:
https://youtu.be/BkrqKHK-JjI - Eric
https://youtu.be/p1nOW_6VDNI - Kathy
https://youtu.be/YzdqJmiRfAw - Terry
https://youtu.be/glUt8zPYNpc - Taylor
https://youtu.be/eeAGOKR0DJs - Andy
https://youtu.be/6ZGu-1n0dpA - Sandie
Wendy has a strong reputation in her community. The word about the success she has had in helping those who are dealing with trauma to find their way back to wholeness has begun to spread. She has received many invitations to share her knowledge within the alternative healing community, and the public agencies that she has partnered with are telling others about the power of her story and her work.
More important than that, is the difference that Wendy is making in individual lives. The modalities that Wendy offers through UBU Today help people with autoimmune, and other forms of chronic illness, as well as trauma victims. Indeed, there is a great deal of trauma that goes hand in hand with a serious health issue. Here is what a UBU Today participant, Eric Ewing has to say about how he has been helped through Wendy’s efforts:
“I have stage IV malignant melanoma cancer and was given six months to live last October (2016). I was first diagnosed in April 2013 and have had 5 recurrences and 13 tumors during that time period. I have had to ask myself what has kept this cancer coming back time after time. I have read countless books, clinical trials and medical reviews of different methodologies to cure this life lesson I have been given. I truly believe that I am implementing the best possible strategy to beat this on a physiological level, yet still the tumors come back. Therefore I have had to ask myself what is the missing ingredient is to finally rid myself of this and keep the recurrences from recurring. I think that UBU is that X factor to finally beat this. I believe that in order to truly put this stage of my life behind me I must align my mind, body and spirit into a healing state. I have attended one UBU event prior to this, and after coming home learned that my 12th tumor had disappeared. This was only the second tumor that I was able to beat without having had it cut out of my body and one of the two that changed my staging from stage 3 to stage 4. Tumor #13 is the second of those two tumors and the only one that remains in my body today. Both of those tumors are in my lungs and I think that the breathwork we do in Biodynamic Breath is instrumental in aligning my mind, body and spirit to be tumor free by my next scan this December (2017). “
Because Eric feels so strongly about the value of the work that UBU Today is doing, he flew from Missouri to Michigan in December 2017 at his own expense, to offer his help at a free Intro to Breathwork event. By her example of passing along what she has benefited from to others, Wendy is inspiring people like Eric to do so as well.
UBU Today’s mantra sums up Wendy’s sense of caring for those who are hurting in her community better than anything else:
This is for the silent sufferers. It’s for the ones who use their voices, but don’t receive the help they’re asking for. It’s for the ones who don’t have the first idea what they need. This is for the sleepless—the ones who desperately need to rest, and yet are unable to do so. This is for those who rarely, if ever, feel safe. This is for those whose bodies have betrayed them. It’s for the diagnosed, and the undiagnosed. It’s for the ones who bravely face each day without the strength to do so, and it’s for the ones who can’t even begin to do what’s required of them. This is for those in pain—physically, emotionally, mentally—without respite. It’s for the ones who fear that their pain will return, until it does. This is for the ones who have been ignored, forgotten, abandoned and abused. It’s for the ones who have taken care of everyone else’s needs, but their own. This is for the ones who fear that they might not have tomorrow, and it’s for the ones who are afraid that the way they are managing to live will never end. This is for the hopeless, the anxious and the exhausted, and it’s for the hopeful, the determined and the resilient. It’s for the ones who know exactly what is holding them back, and it’s for those who don’t have the first clue why they are constantly afraid.
This is UBU Today.
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