title: Free to Be Healthy: How to Release the Thoughts, Beliefs, and Emotions Held in Your Subconscious Mind to Heal Your Mind, Your Body, and Your Soul.
author: Margaret Stuart
description: For more than thirty years, Margaret Stuart has helped people improve their health by identifying and releasing negative thoughts, beliefs, and emotions held in the subconscious mind. Nominated as Citizen of Australia for her work with the mind, Margaret is also a highly acclaimed international keynote speaker and workshop facilitator. She currently lives in Australia.
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  Breaking Nova
  
  Jessica Sorensen
  
  
  
  
  
  For anyone who’s ever felt lost and struggled to find their way back.
  
  
  
  
  
  [Prologue](Breaking_Nova_split_049.html#filepos575044)
  
  Nova
  
  Sometimes I wonder if there are some memories the mind doesn’t want to deal
  with and that if it really wants to, it can block out the images, shut down,
  numb the pain connected to what we saw—what we didn’t want to see. If we allow
  it to, the numbness can drown out everything, even the spark of life inside
  us. And eventually the person we once were is nothing but a vanishing memory.
  
  I didn’t always use to think this way. I used to have hope. I used to believe
  in things. Like when my father told me if I wanted something bad enough that I
  could make it happen.
  
  “No one else in the world can make things happen for you, Nova,” he’d said
  while we were lying on our backs on the hill in our backyard, staring up at
  the stars. I was six and happy and a little naïve, eating his words up like
  handfuls of su