Her work with AIDS patients drew fame and she was invited to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Phil Donahue Show in the same week, in March 1988. These grew from a few people in her living room to hundreds of men in a large hall in West Hollywood. This pamphlet was later enlarged and extended into her book You Can Heal Your Life, published in 1984 As of February 2008, it was second on the New York Times miscellaneous paperback best-sellers list.Īround the same time she began leading support groups for people living with H.I.V. In 1976, Hay wrote her first book Heal Your Body, which began as a small pamphlet containing a list of different bodily ailments and their “probable” metaphysical causes. She claimed in the interview that she rid herself of the cancer by this method, but, while swearing to its truth, admitted that she has outlived every doctor who could confirm this story. She reported how she had refused conventional medical treatment, and began a regime of forgiveness, coupled with therapy, nutrition, reflexology and occasional colonic enemas. Hay described how in 1977 or 1978 she was diagnosed with "incurable" cervical cancer, and how she came to the conclusion that by holding on to her resentment for her childhood abuse and rape she had contributed to its onset. She also recalled how she had studied Transcendental Meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at the Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa. In this role she led people in spoken affirmations, which she believes would cure their illnesses, and became popular as a workshop leader. Hay revealed that here she studied the New Thought works of authors like Florence Scovel Shinn, who claimed that positive thinking could change people’s material circumstances, and the Religious Science founder Ernest Holmes, who taught that positive thinking could heal the body.īy Hay's account, in the early 1970s she became a Religious Science practitioner. Hay said that about this time she found the First Church of Religious Science on 48th Street, which taught her the transformative power of thought. In 1954, she married the English businessman Andrew Hay after 14 years of marriage, she felt devastated when he left her for another woman. She achieved success, working for Bill Blass, Oleg Cassini and Pauline Trigère.
At this point she changed her name and began a career as a fashion model. In 1950, she moved on again, to New York. She then moved to Chicago, where she worked in low-paying jobs. At 15, she dropped out of high school without a diploma, became pregnant and, on her 16th birthday, gave up her newborn baby girl for adoption.
According to Hay, when she was about 5, she was raped by a neighbor.
In it, Hay stated that she was born in Los Angeles to a poor mother who remarried Louise's violent stepfather, who physically abused her and her mother. Biographyīorn Helen Vera Lunney in Los Angeles to parents Henry John Lunney (1901–1998) and Veronica Chwala (1894–1985), Hay recounted her life story in an interview with Mark Oppenheimer of The New York Times in May 2008. She authored several New Thought self-help books, including the 1984 book, You Can Heal Your Life. Urn:isbn:907136223X Scandate 20110720160126 Scanner Lynn Hay (Octo– August 30, 2017) was an American motivational author and the founder of Hay House.
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