Joe Petroski

Could you share your journey with us?
      I grew up in Minnesota in a family that, on the outside, looked great. We did many fun things, and my mom and dad did their best. However, they also dished out a great deal of physical and emotional abuse.
      They beat me often. Sometimes two or three times a day. The worst was the screaming and emotional abuse.
       I wondered to myself – When would I ever be good enough? What was wrong with me? Why couldn’t I be like everyone else? I was one of the best-behaved kids in the entire neighborhood and school, yet I was treated as the worst. In my late twenties, I developed an unusual illness.
      By my thirties, it became a disability. I would often lose the ability to tell you what I was seeing. I could not read and follow a TV program due to how the illness affected my brain.
      I was fragile and emaciated. In 1999 the Doctors sent me home to die, with the prognosis that I had less than a year to live and would most likely take my own life, as the illness would become so horrible and painful.
       Luckily I found this amazing Shaolin Master, Dr. Kam Yuen; he and his students worked on me and towards my path to healing and health. After the second hour session, I no longer needed the supplemental oxygen; by the third, I was completely healthy.