It is often described as a part of the New Age movement. You Can Heal Your Life is also included in the book 50 Self-Help Classics for being significant in its field. More than 50 million copies sold around the world in over 30 languages and it also has been made into a movie. Following this, You Can Heal Your Life immediately landed on the New York Times bestseller list. Her work with AIDS patients drew fame and she was invited to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Phil Donahue Show in the same week, in March 1988. These grew from a few people in her living room to hundreds of men in a large hall in West Hollywood, California. Īround the same time she began leading support groups for people living with HIV/AIDS, which she called "Hay Rides". In February 2008, it was fourth on the New York Times paperback advice bestsellers list. This pamphlet was later enlarged and extended into her book You Can Heal Your Life, published in 1984. In 1976, Hay wrote and self-published her first book, Heal Your Body, which began as a small pamphlet containing a list of different bodily ailments and their "probable" metaphysical causes. She claimed in the interview that she rid herself of the cancer by this method, but, while swearing to its truth, admitted that she had outlived every doctor who could confirm this story. She reported how she had refused conventional medical treatment, and began a regime of forgiveness, coupled with therapy, nutrition, reflexology, and occasional colonic enemas. Hay described how in 1977 or 1978 she was diagnosed with "incurable" cervical cancer, and how she came to the conclusion that by holding on to her resentment for her childhood abuse and rape she had contributed to its onset. She also recalled how she had studied Transcendental Meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at the Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa. In this role she led people in spoken affirmations, which she believed would cure their illnesses, and became popular as a workshop leader. īy Hay's account, in the early 1970s she became a religious science practitioner. Hay revealed that here she studied the New Thought works of authors such as Florence Scovel Shinn who believed that positive thinking could change people's material circumstances, and the Religious Science founder Ernest Holmes who taught that positive thinking could heal the body. Hay said that about this time she found the First Church of Religious Science on 48th Street, which taught her the transformative power of thought. In 1954, she married the English businessman Andrew Hay (1928–2001) after 14 years of marriage, she felt devastated when he left her for another woman, Sharman Douglas (1928–1996). She achieved success, working for Bill Blass, Oleg Cassini, and Pauline Trigère.
At this point she changed her first name, and began a career as a fashion model. In 1950, she moved on again, to New York. She then moved to Chicago, where she worked in low-paying jobs. At 15, she dropped out of University High School in Los Angeles without a diploma, became pregnant and, on her 16th birthday, gave up her newborn baby girl for adoption. When she was about 5, she was raped by a neighbor.
In it, Hay stated that she was born in Los Angeles to a poor mother who remarried Louise's violent stepfather, Ernest Carl Wanzenreid (1903–1992), who physically abused her and her mother.
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