For forty years I thought I would amount to nothing
Nearly every therapist or healer has their story from an early age of feeling guided, or sensing they have a special gift to share. This wasn’t how my story began.
I was born in Melbourne, Australia and my father was the last of 9 Italian immigrant children and my mother had Irish decent. We grew up in an average neighborhood and on the surface seemed like an average life but felt far from the truth for me.
I remember bits and pieces of my childhood. The glint of brass from the buckle of my father’s army belt just before he beat me in fits of rage and anger. The feeling of fear and disgust at the sight of him, the man who sexually and emotionally abused me. The sound he used to make as he chewed on a toothpick and sucked air between his teeth with a slow, purposeful stare.

Marisa loves animals. Pictured here at the age of 12 with her trusted friend Nicki
I felt poison running through my veins from all the negativity. I had to shut down to survive. I became numb from the abuse. Self worth and respect were things I never experienced. I sensed my father’s intent to ensure I grew up thinking I was the most worthless and evil person on the planet. He wanted to dominate, control and suck the life out of my childlike innocence.
Although I struggled through my schooling with dyslexia and severe learning difficulties, no matter what my father did or how much he abused me, I was never going to give him the pleasure of thinking he had won.
Learning how to turn my pain into my power
It was many decades later that I really began to heal. After a childhood of extreme physical and emotional pain, I suffered three whiplash injuries in my 20′s. I also developed self-destructive and addictive behaviors, falling for every addictive substance under the sun.
My body was completely toxic and riddled with pain. I invested in treatment after treatment, spending most days counting down the minutes to the next one. I stretched out my treatments (chiropractic, osteopathic, naturopathic, massage, etc.) according to my budget at the time, often 2-3 times a week.
Many years of my life, I longed to be dead and leave the hell that was raging inside my body. I felt so alone and disconnected, the only thing I really connected to was pain. Thinking myself worthy of living a happy life never entered my mind. It was not until I reached 40 that I had my first genuine thought I had something to bring to this world.
It was around this time that I was attending an Anthony Robbins seminar in Brisbane, Australia. I was experiencing acute pain. Someone suggested I visit his kinesiologist who was ‘weird and different’. It was music to my ears! I thought it sounded great, as the ‘norm’ just wasn’t working for me. After the first treatment, I felt the energy start to reconnect parts of me that had been blocked for years. I knew I had begun to find answers to decades of struggle. And so my healing journey began with many years of researching, releasing, and detoxing.

Marisa on stage with Reverend Dr. Michael Beckwith from ‘The Secret’
I cleared karma and past life baggage which was weird at first. I had been exposed to philosophies that didn’t support reincarnation. Past life releasing changed my life dramatically.
Healing using logic and intuition
During the years of research, studies and treatments, I received a powerful treatment which changed my healing forever. Following the healing, I sensed energy following and surging through my body. My body physically responds to energy, even people’s thoughts.
Over time, I have attuned this energy. With years of experience working with energy, this gift has developed and helps me ‘read’ a client’s body (energy field) with great accuracy.

Winner of the Australian Achiever Awards for the last three years
I use my new found gift with a deep-seated will to get to the bottom of things, so the media often refer to me as the Sherlock Holmes of healing. It’s the logical, investigative style along with magnifying my intuition and reading of the body that allows me to relate to the physical, emotional and spiritual challenges my clients present with – regardless of age or culture .
My mission to leverage my life experience to change lives
It may be that that you had similar negative circumstances in your life. I maintain a strong conviction that your life can improve no matter how you see your circumstances today. When I created the Forensic Healing System I discovered healing secrets that made further major changes in my life that created a wholeness that I had been searching for.
Years ago when I was seeking answers, I was told by traditional practitioners that I would have to live with chronic pain for the rest of my life. Now I am pain and stress free. If I can change my life from such chronic conditions, I know you can too.
“I know what it’s like to want to take your own life. There are women out there who are struggling with deep wounds and it’s my mission to help them heal”. Ms. Russo says she is a testament to what’s possible. “If I can heal, anyone can.”
As part of my mission at Freeing Women, I now travel the world to bring personal transformation for women to release trauma, abuse and low self worth through new thinking and a practical self healing process.
Hold the vision of yourself healthy and free and you will be drawn along a vibrant healing pathway.
I am so grateful to live in a beautiful space and have a life filled with joy. I wish the same for you.
Sending you blessings and love. Marisa xx

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