Roommates! Well, here you are the three (or two) of you, and you don’t know one other at all. There is a period of adjustment. You don’t know each other’s hot spots. There will be things that you like or don’t like about each other.

I had to first decide if I really wanted to try to keep my home, or let it go and try to find something much smaller.

Hands of Life opens with “energy healer” Julie Motz trying to observe heart surgery. She is so overcome by the opened chest and blood that she runs out and collapses on a gurney. From this inauspicious beginning, Motz learns to work with heart-transplant and breast-cancer patients during surgery, as well as before and after. She feels the patient’s energy and emotions, senses images of childhood pains, and helps to direct energy toward healing.