Salima Adelstein

Number one, the students that graduated from our program, they were really looking for what's next.

So it made me start to question, well, what's next?

Yes, they now have a high school diploma, but what's next?

How do we help them

develop themselves into the most complete human being so that they're living fulfilled and happy lives.

That got me interested in the healing aspect, right?

Most people don't feel good about themselves, whether you're artistic, whether you have mental illness, or whether you quote unquote are a normal human being.

Most people have gone through experiences in their lives where at some point in their life they've been hurt or they've built up a defense or they've been wounded or somebody has teased them or made fun of them to make them forget who they are in truth.

And that's how I got interested in it.

It was like a natural evolution of my own growth and development.

Like any human being in our society today, most of how we see and perceive the world is through our mind.

What I do and what I help people do is take a journey from your mind, which is going to tell you all kinds of thoughts, into a deep wisdom in your heart.

We say that the heart carries treasures, the heart carries a divine love,

And the heart also carries wounds.

So part of the work is how do we identify what those wounds are and how do we become aware of what's needed so those wounds heal?

The majority of time, what is needed in those wounds is love, compassion.

caring and what I would call the washing away of the stain of that wound in the heart.

That's why I say experience is the best teacher.

It's like back in my special ed days, one of my students, you know, they were in so much trouble in school that they didn't have the wherewithal to actually learn anything.

So many of them at 13, 14 and 15 didn't know how to read yet.