Pain is a universal language...

                                                              It speaks through the body, mind and spirit - and,

                                                                                         when present, affects them all. 

                                          Pain calls attention to a need ...

                                                                                to relax, to repair, to renew. 

                   Heed pain's whisper, and it will fall into silent reassurance that all is well. 

                                           Ignore its plea, and it will persist  ...  increasing in volume,

                                                            invading your body-mind-consciousness ...  until it dominates.

                              Mary Ellen Derwis-Balaz knows how to listen.

                                                                                                 She is fluent in the languages of pain,

                                                                                                                           and knows how to communicate and quiet them ...

                                                                                                                                          with touch, breath and ...  

                                                                                                                                                                                           mindfulness.