To provide some context to what follows, so impressed was I by Jenny right from the start of our first meeting, and similarly by a number of her close friends who were also students (as they refer to themselves) of Universal Medicine, that I took up my own study of this subject with great interest. There was something different about these people. I could see and feel it.

And so it was with quite some intrigue and anticipation, when the opportunity arose to attend Livingness 1, that I did attend that event and meet Serge Benhayon that first time. My email to Serge the following day, as shown below, captures the significance to me of that first encounter, how I was impressed by him and my feelings about what he presented.

My relationship was coming to an end, my body was fast giving out – suffering with fibromyalgia and unable to continue running my business or to maintain my property.

Serge has been an absolute support and inspiration for me in my relationship with my partner, always there no matter what time of day or night. He listened to me cry, rant, rave or blame, forever feeling like I was in a relationship that had no purpose, a relationship where we were constantly at each other, nit picking, highly reactive to each other. I remember one day calling Serge in absolute tears, I could barely talk, which happened many times during the early years of with my partner and my relationship, and again, he listened intently, offering simple words, ‘Be patient, give it time’. Words I had heard before from him, and all I could think was, ‘Really… again… how patient can a woman be?!’. I was waiting for the ‘I told you so’ however never in my 15+ years of knowing Serge has he ever told me what to do or what not to do … that is the beautiful thing, he never judges, criticises or imposes anything at anytime.

Serge’s sessions felt good, but I was not open and ready for the depth of healing he was offering. So I went a couple of times and then I forgot about him. It was also quite a distance to drive from my house to where Serge was working out of his converted garage in Alstonville.

​Years later, after I had a breast cancer diagnosis, someone again mentioned him and recommend I go to see him. So I met Serge again. That was about 12 years ago. At the time I was trying to heal the cancer myself and I did not want to see any doctors or have surgery.

His healing sessions were/are something else, something I had not experienced before, and this time I was beginning to be ready for true healing. 

At first I didn’t understand what he was saying about breast cancer being about a woman not nurturing herself, as I thought that many of the things I was doing were nurturing eg: eating all organic and mostly raw food, doing juice fasts… 

Many stories I hear are the ones where we have been met or seen for who we are; where simply a person has taken the care and time to show us that little bit extra, who has listened to us in the most needed of situations, having seen that there is something great inside us.

​Serge Benhayon is one such person that truly meets people. But what really stands out is that he is the man of which thousands say is the person who provided that defining moment for them, that triggered a set of actions and ponderings that lead to positive change in their lives.
 
How has he been that man for thousands?  Well very simply actually...

He has always been there to support our family as an equal mentor and friend. There are no airs and graces about Serge Benhayon, he lives with a knowing that everyone is capable of great and wonderful things, that we all come from the same place with exactly the same makeup. With all the wisdom Serge naturally lives I have observed him approach his day with a knowing that he is going to learn something anew, or connect to something on a deeper level, to me this is what makes a great teacher.

Everyone he spoke to was important and it didn’t seem to matter if he had known you five minutes or five years, he would greet everyone with a great care. I remember asking myself, 'how can a man be like this, what’s the trick?' Over the next year I watched him further and kept being astounded by how the same quality continued with how he was with people. I remember thinking that one day I would catch him out and find out how he really was and what I have found is that how he was on the first day I saw him is how he is today. Serge has never changed, in fact the qualities that ‘struck’ me on that first day have deepened further and he is more caring with the people I see him with than any person I know.