In October 1999, Maile Ogata was born with Apert's Syndrome.  She had endured six surgeries by her third birthday.  One day a therapist encouraged Cindy to massage Maile’s fingers to reduce scar tissue and gain range of motion in her fingers.  Impressed with the results, Cindy was inspired to learn the rest of the body.  This was how she turned Maile’s challenges into blessings with the start of Therapeutic Touch of Health.

     Before Maile was a year old, a Doctor from Stanford commented that Maile would have cognitive challenges because she was missing her corpus callosum.  After her cleft palate surgery, one eye started to wonder off into when you spoke to her…along with her multiple delays.  Cindy searched for answers to these challenges and found Brain Gym.  After a year of doing simple brain gym movements with Maile, her Neurologist noted that Maile was among a very small percent that made great gains in such a short period.  Her eye doctor was impressed that her eyes stabilized without his prescribe glasses/patches. Today Maile is like another other child in regular education with her strengths and weaknesses.

     Somewhere around her eighth surgery, Maile would sleep walk into her parent’s room every night for weeks.  Cindy decided to experiment with various essential oils to see if she could reduce the post surgical trauma and anxieties Maile was going through.  She rubbed a drop of lavender on Maile’s chest for a week.  That was the end of her sleep walking!  Since then, Cindy uses her “Dr. Mom” kit of essential oils during the flu season to keep Maile healthy.  Maile loves using essential oil on her outer ear and foot every evening.  Some of her favorite Young Living Oils include Peace & Calming, Joy, Purification, Thieves, Lavendar and R.C.

     Maile’s Dream is a Celebration of Differences was organized by Roxanne Kaino and the Student Body Government Class at Washington Middle School.  It is a family fun day usually in March.  For the last three years, this event raised awareness of differences through games, entertainment and displays.  Monies raised went to the Early Intervention Program at Easter Seals of Hawaii, a program that provided much needed services during Maile’s early years.