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Micheline O’Shaughnessy is a Blue Diamond Director who splits her time between eastern Canada and Florida. “My home is where I park my camper,” she says.
She became an AIM Member in 1994 at the urging of a friend, Simon Leger, “who was so enthused about the company’s products that he made a believer out of me.” Three AIM conventions would change her life.
Hawaii: “When I joined I was far from expecting that the very first year, as a simple beginner, I would win a contest for a one-week trip to Hawaii. To me, this was a real ‘God-incidence’ because I had not even really tried to win. I was overwhelmed by the company’s generosity.”
San Francisco: “The most impressive thing I ever heard a company president say is when Dennis Itami (AIM co-owner) was asking God’s blessing on AIM and the assembly and he said, ‘Lord, this is Your company.’ From that point on, I felt I could trust the integrity of AIM and its leaders and that my association with the company had something to do with God’s purpose for my life.”
Banff: When she committed to this convention, little did she realize that it would profoundly influence what her life would become. She is now an international speaker and writer on women’s hormones. She was not when she arrived in Banff.
“My journey in the wonderful world of hormones started when I met Dr. John Lee. He was a man of great integrity and truly dedicated to helping women better understand the hormone issues they face. What Dr. Lee said about estrogen dominance made a lot of sense. I could now understand why my periods had always been so painful and why, when I reached menopause,
I ended up in deep depression.”
Depression to the point where her physician recommended she see a psychiatrist who prescribed antidepressants, which made matters worse and took her to the brink of suicide.
What she heard from Dr. Lee was an epiphany. “When I realized that all this misery could have been avoided if I had known about what Dr. Lee told us at that AIM convention, I became convinced that I had found a new calling to help women out of hormone hell.”
 It wasn’t that she was traveling in circles where health was an unknown subject. It was just that traditional thought does not often pay much attention to self-help options. Micheline had received a degree in linguistics (English and Spanish emphasis) and studied journalism. She worked as an information officer for a research organization in the Canadian government, served as a policy analyst for Health Canada, and formed a company that provided translation services primarily for the Canadian government, at one time employing as many as 15 translators.
Then came the meeting with Dr. Lee: “I started reading everything Dr. Lee had written. It was such a treasure of information and inspiration. Art and Klazina Ketting (Chairman’s Club Directors) suggested I give a presentation on what I had learned,” recalls Micheline. That was in 1998 and she has been on the go for the cause of women’s health ever since. Her effort is concentrated in the French speaking areas of Canada plus using her Internet site (written in French) to reach women in Europe. Now age 69 with two grown children (son and daughter), Micheline “would like to slow down so I am in the process of passing on my speaking engagements to others” to concentrate on her website. She says the days of speaking tours where “I would clock more than 2,000 miles” were rewarding but are now history. She estimates she has given hundreds of talks on hormone health in the past 10 years.
What is her Dr. Lee-inspired message? “I see my mission as educating women on how their hormonal system works, helping them understand their biosynthetic pathways of the steroid hormones (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA) so they will be aware that as they approach menopause their body will switch to an alternate system of hormone production based on their adrenal glands rather than their ovarian function. Women then realize the fallacy of the medical dogma that says women will inevitably become hormone deficient at menopause. It is like saying the Creator made a mistake when He created women. If we need estrogen and other hormones to remain healthy, why would nature not provide them? The fact is that nature does if we know how to take care of our body through nutrition, lifestyle, exercise, and stress control based on a positive attitude and spirituality.”
Micheline says she receives encouragement daily from women who have heard her speak or who have seen her website. Two cases in particular are heartwarming to her.
A Member of her downline had contact with a woman she said could see herself hanging from a tree in her backyard. She had attempted suicide twice. The woman’s problems were traced to nutrition issues and an endometriosis problem (resulting in two unsuccessful surgeries) necessitating many months off work. Intervention with AIM BarleyLife® and AIM Renewed Balance® produced immediate results. In three weeks, the woman was able to return to work and thoughts of suicide were just a bad memory.
A woman in her late 30s wanted help in becoming pregnant. She had been diagnosed with fibroid tumors in her uterus, ovarian cysts, and a thickened endometrium. Her physician recommended a total hysterectomy. She contacted a Member of Micheline’s downline. “She undertook to guide her in the use of Renewed Balance to resolve these issues. Four months later she went for further testing. The fibroid tumors had shrunk to almost nothing, she had even passed one, the ovarian cysts had disappeared, and the endometrium was now normal. She was given a clean bill of reproductive health.” But the story gets even better. She became pregnant, continued to use Renewed Balance as a protective against bleeding, contractions, and a miscarriage – eventually giving birth to a healthy baby girl at term.
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