A journey of personal healing

REVE Liza Abelarde confesses: “My life was a mess - I couldn't even see myself anymore. I kept piling up mistake after another. I was hurting people around me. I needed a change. I tried everything. Psychotherapy. I went under medical rehabilitation for a post-traumatic stress disorder.”

“Trying everything led me to the ‘prayer principle’ I wrote about. In a few months, I saw myself changing—which eventually led to my life changing,” Abelarde says, as she recalls the bottomless pit she was in some years back.

Indeed, when we make a mess of our lives and become nuances not only to others but even to ourselves, the whole psyche collapses. Spiritually, emotionally and psychologically, life becomes helter skelter. A lost and confused soul damages the body system as well. There is extreme burnout from all corners and illnesses surface.

Not knowing where to turn, prayer became Reve’s refuge. Prayer allows us to go into the deepest recesses of our being and we see ourselves for who we truly are. Self-knowledge can be quite frightful because graduallythere is the realization that we are not as cool as we thought we are and that the abyss we are thrown into is actually the result of a daily dose of self-inflicted bad choices. Purification can be sorrowful but so joyful when we see God’s hand redirecting our lives.

Reve is a very gifted person. She can write and cook, she has very creative ideas and she has great taste for decorating homes and even landscaping. During the dark, gloomy period tethering between illness and helplessness, she started writing her thoughts and her prayers.

After four years of ceaselessly imploring God, Reve has come up with a book, a prayer principle, titled, “How To Get Your Prayers Answered and Influence Your Environment.”

Asked how she came about having this published, she says: “My Pastor, Edman Locsin, hooked me up with writer/editor Dino Farolan Mapa who has several published books. He mentored me and edited my book. We worked with Amazon. My book is currently available through Amazon both as e-books and paperback. The direct local distribution will be available in October.”

God can never be outdone with His generosity. Seeing someone who wants to make good use of the talents she was given, this September she will be hosting a weekly show called “Plate Up” on SkyCable- Channel 35.

Reve says, “Plate Up is more than just a food show. It will be hip and a fun guide to cooking especially for homecooks who love to entertain. Also it will not be limited in your home kitchen, but will take you to places that will elevate your cooking experience and knowledge.”

“There will be location shoots in the different restaurants here in Bacolod City and there will be outdoor cooking as well with guest chefs and personalities. Viewers will enjoy exciting tips and trivia. I plan on inviting celebrity friends to pop in and cut and dice while I cook,” she adds.

“Plate Up” is produced by Aperture Tales Production (ATP), Negros Island's latest and most advanced production house. ATP produces Piaya Network, the latest cable television network under SkyCable - Channel 35 that features tourist spots, sports, food, politics, art and lifestyle.

The show is directed by Anthony Leo Aguirre, young and full of fresh ideas.He has participated in several workshops for film and TV production and has worked with some of the finest Bacolod artists like film directors Jay Abello and Manny Montelibano.

Reve affirms: “This show is my return from a personal healing—a personal journey of failures and growth. This show is a testimony that God has spent some time cleaning me up and arranging my life to be pleasing to Him.”

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