My name is Annette, I am 67 years old. I am writing this text out of gratitude for the tireless and great work of Danielle H. Jolissaint, who has always seen the way of healing to enable me, as an aging and unhappy woman, to find my way back to life and to unlock my capacity for happiness and peace. It is important to me that many other people find out about this, who may be in a similar situation to mine, and who can find healing in the work of Danielle H. Jolissaint. Danielle H. Jolissaint’s work is very comprehensive, she teaches life, with all the natural connections that form the basis of our existence: Oceans, forests, earth, air, animals, our bodies, our thoughts, our feelings. She freed me from self-centeredness, which I experienced as a deep healing process.
Before I met Danielle, I lived an emotionally meagre and lonely life; only my two cats gave me meaning, otherwise I was waiting for the “end”. I felt unfairly treated by “life”, as in my self-image I had done so much for the improvement of the world and peace.
 From my youth, I had been involved in the so-called “peace movement” for the dismantling of destructive power structures and world peace – countless demonstrations and actions against the warlike armament of the world powers at the time with weapons of war of the worst kind were part of this commitment for years. It was the urge for a better world, without war and destruction, which we found as like-minded people in this so-called “peace movement”, that brought us together and motivated us. However, I still had no idea how true peace would come into the world. I also chose my profession as a social pedagogue in order to be able to exert influence so that human suffering caused by social inequalities, such as a lack of education, could be compensated for.
In my search for a deeper understanding of how human beings are capable of war and destruction, I studied concepts of psychology and spent half my life in the false consciousness that I had thereby understood something about destruction and war in human beings themselves. In doing so, I increasingly installed in myself a far too narrow horizon of self-centeredness in order to be able to see clearly at all, what really leads to peace in the world. My supposed efforts to achieve peace were limited to dealing with and regretting the old wounds of my own past.
With all that I have learned so far from Danielle H. Jolissaint, I can only see that I have always had the war within me. As a result, I have never been able to live peaceful and happy relationships, and thus contribute nothing to peace in the world. Especially in my relationships with men, I waged “war” and exercised negative power myself. These relationships had little to do with love and security, I was very arrogant, demanded a lot, everything should revolve around me, and I always remained dissatisfied. This dissatisfaction also made me jealous of the things that could have made my life partners happy. Over the years, things became increasingly lonely around me, no relationship lasted long, and I always felt like a “victim” and withdrew more and more, leading a very lonely and unhappy life for years. I put my remaining strength and energy into work. As a result, I became more and more of an embittered and dissatisfied old supposed “do-gooder”. Fate was kind to me and gave me two cats at my side who brought light and love into my life, which I was able to accept.
 Through a friend I found Danielle H. Jolissaint in Hünenberg and this is where the real “revolution” began for me. With her great and tireless work and love, Danielle made it possible for me to gradually give up my old world view and to begin to see and feel who and how I really am. She was always very patient with me and offered me her hand and support every step of the way.
 Step by step, I was able to peel myself out of the old, dead parts of my life and now live a happy and contented life. I never thought that was possible. I was able to get rid of most of my material possessions that were still feeding my limited horizon of self-expression and attachment to the past. I now live in a tiny house in the middle of nature and am part of a community of other tiny house residents. At the same time, I am part of the community created by Danielle H. Jolissaint more than 20 years ago, in which children and animals live, and I am allowed to contribute the qualities that are needed at the time. From Danielle I have learned to live more from the heart, to give more than I take and to stand up for all living beings in this world. This is how I recognize my task, which I have, and which will keep me busy for the rest of my life. Danielle has taught us that our thoughts, feelings and actions correspond to everything that surrounds us. This is how I can see my task, to keep these thoughts, feelings and actions pure in order to make my contribution to world peace.
 Thank you from the bottom of my heart, dear Danielle, for this great work, patience and love that always flows from you!
 With all my heart
 Annette