Hello, I am Laura Vaca Pereira Urgel.
I am a survivor, and I am here to tell you my story.
I had a daughter who was as beautiful as the sun. My daughter taught me everything I am today; she taught me to appreciate life and see it as a great miracle, something we should treasure. Daniela was 18 years old when she passed away, and I was devastated. That day, I buried part of my heart with her, but the other part had to keep beating because I had my other beloved daughter Laura Huguette, she was 6 years old. Daniela taught me and made me grow through her example about love for life and even though she knew it would be short for her. Even though she knew a terrible disease would cut her youth short.
She never gave up and faced everything with a smile and a unique love for her family and friends. Her teachings accompany me to this day. It is those teachings that led me to seek answers in everything I read. I was looking for answers to the guilt I felt because she died, and I was left without being able to do anything.
In her tremendous wisdom, she brought me to the questions that would lead me to find my vocation. She brought me to study, to seek answers, to want to know why. But instead of finding the why, I found the what for.
When we began our journey with her illness, leukemia,my path toward complementary medicine started. In my search, I discovered that sometimes it is necessary to use allopathic medicine, but that the two can go hand in hand: one helping from the science we know and the other complementing and strengthening the other bodies that also exist within us, especially addressing emotional freedom.
I believed that by being strong and showing her every day her own strength, I would help her heal. But the emotional part plays a very important role, as the fear she must have felt of dying, especially having gone into remission and then having the disease return, must have been terrifying. She was an expert at making me believe she was always okay, although my mother’s heart told me otherwise.
But I would also like you to know that my daughter Daniela helped me become the woman I am today, and I thanks to her, as well as to my family and each of you who follow me on this blog, I discovered my career of teaching, helping, and spreading the message that it is possible to keep on living. The memory of her and the promise I made to her when we said goodbye for the last time are in everything I do.
I hope that, even though I know a few tears will roll down your face, you know that my daughter taught me something that I will leave with you in these lines. It is a phrase that accompanies me every day of my life, and I hope it accompanies you too:
“LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST”
I invite you, in honour of my daughter and all the people who have to fight to stay alive, to live your own precious life to the fullest, and appreciate every moment of it.
Thank you for reading and for being here.
Laura