fasten your seatbelts

this is a turbulent Storytime

of a character called “Tanja”…

There are TWO versions below

Please bring curious attention to what happens within you

as you read them

First

please be aware

that Tanja does NOT exist in Truth

she’s a mind-made character

solely exists in the mind identified world

a fun character though

(when she’s not frustrated or impatient 🤣)

This was a realisation on the “cellular” level

heartfelt. speechless

that evoked fear + deep grief (I worked so hard on that character!!)

and also tremendous relief

all struggles came to an END

healing work become redundant

practices, routines and techniques are a trap

goals too restricting and limiting

instead resting in

spaciousness and vastness

deliciously

staring at clouds

mesmerising

like you’ve never seen clouds before

indescribable

fascinating

a waterdr0p reflecting in the sun

touched to tears

so magical

reading this may evoke curiosity, a longing, a resonance

and inner knowing of “that’s it”

or it may be disturbing

crazy nonsense

Second

(perhaps easier digestable to the mind)

Born in Tirol - Austria.

Engaged in frequent chats with garden gnomes (see photo)

Explored dancing, playing music, gardening, cooking, knitting, sewing…

While simultaneously experienced trauma, abuse and assaults (physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, spiritual)

Confused and lost

Never understood people or why I am here on this planet

Went backpacking U.S., Australia, Africa, Indonesia… before moving to Australia in 1998

tanja windegger garden gnom

Questioning everything internally and externally

Mostly I questioned the purpose of my existence (this started before the age of 6)

Feeling fundamentally flawed and different

Having '“out of body” experiences

Fluctuating through intense emotions that cannot be put in words

Deepest despair and suicidal attempts, exhilarating joy, appreciating breathtaking moments, panic attacks, frustration, anger, hopelessness, helplessness, jealousy, pure love, peaceful stillness

The sharpest of contrasts!!

It was like the wildest rollercoaster in the dark going backwards

Unpredictable and chaotic

healing search for meaning tanja windegger

Around age 13, I deeply connected with Jonathan Livingston Seagull (by Richard Bach) - commitment to mastery

…. If only I practice as hard as Jonathan, then I will “succeed”… became my living motto

 

And so, for the next few decades I worked hard at practices to:

  • become better, smarter, healthier, more liked and accepted…

  • heal childhood trauma wounds and fixing my brain,

  • attain lots of qualifications (to feel more worthy and to prove people that I can even though I have learning difficulty)

Meanwhile I accumulated more and more diagnosis (cPTSD, ADD, Meniere’s disease, vestibular migraines, coeliac disease, fibromyalgia….)

STRUGGLING was a constant

(emotionally, financially, physically, socially…)

awakening healing tanja windegger
healing awakening tanja windegger

The mad search for solutions to all my many struggles ENDED

when my forceful “make it happen” attitude pushed me to “The Edge”

Surrender to a bigger power beyond this character called “Tanja” seemed

the only option, as my physical body “shut down” (a medical emergency)

Realising that:

  • none of the accumulated knowledge is going to save me and

  • none of my practices, routine and techniques worked

So, is this the end of my existence???

This moment of Surrender opened the door to merge “existence” and “non-existence” (for lack of better words to describe the indescribable)

A research scientist having a mystical experience

An awakening . A glimpse . An opening

An awareness of infinite potential and spaciousness

 

so obvious and so clear that it could not be denied or doubted

The old way of “living” no longer made sense

Too restricted and limited

a powerful pointer 💛🌻

“The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.”

— Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

… a new era …

like falling deeper and deeper within oneself

expansive

peaceful

joyous

grateful

pure love

Feeling FREE - unfiltered

spontaneous

playful

 All the above is

a playful arrangement of words to create this story

an infinite number of stories could be created

transmission of the underlying message

can only be heard and felt at cellular level

by characters playing at the same frequency of transmission

with conscious creation. shifts in perceived reality (or manifestation) are instant and effortless

This is obvious when you clearly see how entanglement with thoughts and beliefs shapes the seemingly outer appearance or reality

🌻 Mastery .💛 Devotion . ✨Telepathy .

Bonus story 

As I am often asked, here are some of my Credentials...

Doctor of Philosophy PhD (Internal Medicine - Immunology), Bachelor in Biomedical Science, Honours (Pharmacology), Associate Degree In Medical Laboratory Science, Diploma in Pre-school and Kindergarten teaching (specialised in autism and ADHD). Many courses/certificates in the field of psychology and human behaviour, neuroscience, high performance coaching, acceptance commitment therapy, inner child therapy, Certified Strategic Intervention Coach and trained in Activation™ Method, Energy Coach, Teacher of Presence (Eckhart Tolle)….

Fun fact, I am also a qualified chef and that’s only a fraction of “credentials”, as I always worked in multiple fields simultaneously.

It feels so freeing now that the addiction to accumulating knowledge, busyness/workaholic mode and need to prove my worthiness (a common cPTSD coping mechanism)... has ended

Ready to end yours too?

For those of you curious in the medical research project I was involved in

Here's a list of papers, abstracts and conference presentations where we published our research findings.

Peer-reviewed publications

Windegger TM, English J, Weston H, Morwood K, Kynn M, Scuffham P, Fung YL. Longitudinal study of intravenous versus subcutaneous immunoglobulin preplacement therapy in haematological malignancy. Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2021:17(6):546-554. DOI: 10.1111/ajco.13515.

Windegger TM, Nghiem S, Nguyen KH, Fung YL, Scuffham PA. Primary immunodeficiency disease: A cost-utility analysis comparing intravenous versus subcutaneous immunoglobulin replacement therapy in Australia. Blood Transfusion. 2020:18(2):96-105. DOI: 10.2450/2019.0083-19.

Data and results from this manuscript were used by the Australian Medical Service Advisory Committee (MSAC) to provide advice to the Minister for Health on immunoglobulin use in this cohort (MSAC Application no. 1592)

Windegger TM, Nghiem S, Nguyen KH, Fung YL, Scuffham PA. Cost-utility analysis comparing hospital-based intravenous immunoglobulin with home-based subcutaneous immunoglobulin in patients with secondary immunodeficiency. Vox Sanguinis. 2019;114(3):237-46.

Data and results from this manuscript were used by the Australian Medical Service Advisory Committee (MSAC) to provide advice to the Minister for Health on immunoglobulin use in this cohort (MSAC Application no. 1565).

Windegger TM, Lambooy CA, Hollis L, Morwood K, Weston H, Fung YL. Subcutaneous immunoglobulin therapy for hypogammaglobulinemia secondary to malignancy or related drug therapy. Transfusion Medicine Reviews. 2017;31(1):45-50.

Russell FD, Windegger T, Hamilton KD, Cheetham NWH. Effect of the novel wound-healing agent, OPAL A on leukotriene B4 production in human neutrophils and 5-lipoxygenase activity. Wound Practice and Research, 2011:19;200-203.

  

Conference abstracts and presentations

Windegger TM, English J, Morwood K, Weston H, Kynn M, Scuffham P, Fung YL. Clinical and quality of life impacts of IVIg and SCIg therapy differ in patients with secondary immunodeficiency compared to those with primary immunodeficiency. Poster at 29th Regional Congress of ISBT in Basel, Switzerland (22-26 June 2019). Vox Sanguinis 2019;114(S:1)218.

Windegger TM, Morwood K, Weston H, English J, Fung YL. Subcutaneous immunoglobulin in patients with common variable immunodeficiency. Poster at 29th annual conference of the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA), Canberra, Australia (4-8 September 2018). Internal Medicine Journal 2018;48(S:6):19-20.

Windegger TM, English J, Weston H, Morwood K, Fung YL. Health and quality of life impacts of switching from IVIG to SCIg treatment in patients with primary immunodeficiency disease. Selected as an Oral presentation at BLOOD the combined Annual Scientific Meeting of the Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand, Australian and New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion and Thrombosis and Haemostasis Society of Australia and New Zealand, Brisbane, Australia (21-23 October 2018).

Awarded: Transfusion Professionals Award Clinical Transfusion Practice.

Windegger TM, Lambooy C, English J, Weston H, Morwood K, Fung YL. Comparing the number of antibiotic treated infections of primary and secondary immunodeficiency disease while on immunoglobulin replacement therapy, preliminary findings in an Australian cohort. Poster at 27th Regional Congress of ISBT in Copenhagen, Denmark (17-21 June 2017). Vox Sanguinis 2017;112(S:1):258.

Windegger TM, Scuffham P, Morwood K, Weston H, Fung YL, Nguyen KH. Preliminary: Cost effectiveness of hospital-based versus home-based immunoglobulin replacement therapy for patients with primary immunodeficiency. Selected as oral presentation at the 39th Annual Conference of the Australian Health Economics Society (AHES) in Sydney, Australia (21-22 September 2017).

Windegger TM, Fung YL, Morwood K, English J, Weston H, Scuffham P, Nguyen KH. SCIg home-based immunoglobulin replacement therapy is a cost-effective treatment for Australian primary immunodeficiency patients. Poster at the Annual Scientific Meetings of the Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand, Australian and New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion and the Australasian Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (HAA) in Sydney, Australia (29th October – 1st November 2017).

Windegger TM, Lambooy C, Morwood K, Weston H, Fung YL. Preliminary data on cost of IVIg and SCIg treatment in adult Australian patients. Selected as oral presentation at the Annual Scientific Meetings of the Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand, Australian and New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion and the Australasian Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (HAA) in Melbourne, Australia (13-16 November 2016) presented by A/Prof Lin Fung.

Windegger TM, Lambooy C, Weston H, Morwood K, Fung YL. Review of training to self-administer SCIg and the Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) impacts on patients changing from IVIg to SCIg treatment. Poster at the Annual Scientific Meetings of the Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand, Australian and New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion and the Australasian Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (HAA) in Melbourne, Australia (13-16 November 2016).

Windegger TM, Nguyen KH, English J, Morwood K, Weston H, Scuffham P, Fung YL. Cost effectiveness of hospital-based versus home-based immunoglobulin replacement therapy for SCHHS patients with primary immunodeficiency. Selected as an oral presentation at Sunshine Coast University Hospital (SCUH) Research Day in Birtinya, Australia (15th November 2017).

Windegger TM, Lambooy C, Morwood K, Weston H, English J, Fung YL. Preliminary data IVIG versus SCIg treatment in adult Australian patients. Selected as an oral presentation at Wide Bay Scientific Group Conference in Caloundra, Australia (2017).

Clapperton R, Windegger T, Walker PJ, Green S, Schulz K, Russell F, Askew CD. The effect of short term exercise training on the rate of calf muscle fatigue in patients with peripheral arterial disease. Exercise and Sport Science Australia Meeting 2010.

Mitchell G, Windegger T, Russell FD. Clinical observations and physiological data supporting a vascular response as a mechanism of the novel wound-healing agent, OPALA. The 2nd Meeting of the Australasian Wound and Tissue Repair Society 2010, Abstract 28, pp. 34.