In November 2011, I was driving home one night when I started having trouble breathing. My chest tightened and my heart began pounding. As I passed an emergency care clinic, I wondered for a moment if I should stop and go in.
But I quickly dismissed the idea.
No, I decided, I was going to make it home and rest.
About two miles down the road, my symptoms became so bad I could barely drive. As luck would have it, I happened to be following a police car. Boldly, I began honking to get his attention, and he pulled over. Upon seeing my condition, he quickly called an ambulance to take me to the emergency room.
I was certain that my pounding heart was experiencing the potentially fatal arrhythmia—ventricular tachycardia—that had put me in the hospital in the first place.
This time I learned the humbling truth: Nothing was wrong with my heart.
Instead, I was having a major panic attack.
Back in 2002, however, there had been something wrong indeed. I experienced real heart failure, which required me to have open-heart surgery in 2004 and then a heart transplant in 2005. It took me a long time to become accustomed to all the meds and their side effects, but by 2011 I felt relatively healthy.
After I had that first panic attack, however, everything changed.
Suddenly, I was unable to drive.
Getting behind the wheel was nothing short of terrifying. Was it because my heart donor had died in a car accident? Yet my transplant was six years prior!
It had taken me all this time to heal myself enough that I was ready to face the healing that my heart now needed to do. Poor thing, after its owner’s fatal car accident it had been stuck in a lifeless body for a relatively long time–and terrified. Then it had been cut away from its beloved home, transported in a lunch cooler by helicopter to an unknown destination, and then sewn into a stranger’s body. My body.
My journey to overcoming my fear of driving coincided with my heart’s journey to come face to face with her car accident. It also gave her the time she needed to grieve. It took us about three years to find the courage and inner peace to be able to drive again.
While my new heart was healing, I realized it was finally time to unravel the truth behind the reasons for my native heart’s failure and the issues that led up to it. I felt that writing my story would be a way to heal. In January 2012, I began the process, writing as much as I could whenever I could—evenings, weekends, and vacations.
The story grew. It took on a life of its own, and over four long years of tenacity and persistence, Accepting Destiny was born.
One reader says:
Isabelle Morton opens her heart and brings the reader along on a truly remarkable journey of health, love, life, death, and recovery. Her story teaches by example: how to be resilient, how to move beyond barriers of the past, how to manifest miracles. She demonstrates how to heal. I learned more about true healing at all levels of experience than I expected; these lessons are already spurring me further on my own healing. Read this book for inspiration on your healing journey!
In this book, I share how I first learned about healing gemstone spheres back in the 1980s and what inspired me to return to the work after the transplant. This was when I became truly passionate about my work and the potential of this new modality. I was still afraid of being ostracized by family, friends, and peers for doing something new and different, but I wasn’t going to let that stop me this time.
For 14 years, from 1992 to 2006, I had set my interests aside, ignored them, and allowed fear keep me from pursuing my true calling. Ultimately, it took a near-death experience for me to realize what I’d come here to do.
This book is the true story of my heart failure, my heart transplant, the near-death experience I had while awaiting my new heart, and the journey I took to heal.
It was not an easy journey. I suffered debilitating side effects, transplant rejection, and financial hardship. But despite these obstacles, I set out to do what I’d always known I was meant to. I took up my study of Gemstone Therapy in nightly lessons at inner healing temples. I received careful instruction in the art and science of gemstone medicine, as well as solace, inspiration, and insight, which I share with you in this book.
In this way, my story is also about courage, as I finally found the strength to accept my destiny to bring a new healing modality to the world: Diamond and Gemstone Therapy.
My experience shows how easily one’s world can be turned upside down, but it also shows that it is possible to get back on track. It is never too late to find your purpose and follow your destiny.
There are many lessons to be gleaned from this book, spiritually, and pragmatically. How fortunate we are to have Gemstone Therapy to help us on many levels. Deep gratitude to Isabelle Morton for sharing a very personal experience and for her love and dedication with this important work.
It is my deepest wish that reading my story will inspire you to find and accept your own destiny, to take another step on your own healing journey, and to find the courage to follow your dreams.
I always felt there was greater depth and substance to stones than mere geology would have us believe. Isa Morton’s journey, which she shares with us in her book “Accepting Destiny,” introduces us to the spiritual and metaphysical aspects of the stones. Her writing style flows easily, and her insight clarifies challenging concepts. She teaches us that we have greater potential to heal than we imagine and shows us how we can access that ability with the support of the gemstones.
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Accepting Destiny is more than a memoir, it’s a gift that Isa Morton has given to anyone who wants to find greater balance, harmony, and healing in their life. I’m humbled to be able to learn from her inspiring journey and highly recommend this book to anyone who is ready to experience a new reality.
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Isabelle Morton is undoubtedly a blessing to humanity! Her story speaks hope even when all seems lost, encourages trust in The Light when the embrace of the darkness feels snug, and promotes reassurance when the awareness that The Lord ALWAYS Protects and Provides for His Own is needed. All we need do is reach for, and hold the hand that is offered in help…
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Well written and soulfully entertaining.
You can order my book, Accepting Destiny: How Heart Transplant and Near Death Experience Gave me the Courage to Share Gemstone Therapy with the World, on Amazon.com.