Wow, you have described my last three years quite well. I was hit in the car and it caused me life threatening seizures. This made me perfect bait for every neurological specialist in our area to “be the cause of my healing” their medical genius that includes looking up drugs in a system to make sure they are to stop seizures and then prescribing them to be thousands of MG at a time. Then to go back and have them cheer my seizures have lessened all because of their genius prescription that left me with 14 new issues but slightly less seizures. It’s sickening. I search and find alternative options and they call it quackery. I try other things and they have yelled at me. I eventually stopped seeing them. I am on the path to healing because the Good Lord determined it is time for me to start healing. Not only do seizure medications cause a tolerance build up and severe seizures if your body withdrawals at all…. They caused me 39lb weight gain in three weeks, hair loss, depressed feelings, rage feelings, extreme fatigue from mineral depletion that the doctors have never heard of. 🤦🏽♀️ I am glad to have gone through all of this. Nearly crossing over into the afterlife took my fear of death completely away and that gave me more strength to fight while I am here. They tell me I will be on seizure meds for life. I know I will not be. God yes, but My chiropractor three times a week is the only human who deserves credit for my healing thus far as well as all of the effort on my behalf. I know exactly how you feel when you say it’s not an answer people want to hear. I have been told after physical proof of my methods working that it is quackery… so now I do not mention anything I am doing to heal. I do not schedule follow ups and I laugh when they say I will take the drugs forever. These Money Doctors only care about their check, being in good standing with their sponsors and getting soul credit for our healing through their magic pills. It’s an exhausting loop and I am so glad to be free. Thank you for sharing. Although our ailments are way different our experiences are so similar.
We are working to live off the land and I know getting on your level with be the icing on my healing cake by completely removing all foul crumbs still making their way into our bodies. This is not an overnight journey I have always known that but you saying “ten years” really helps me stay motivated on this path back to a home without intruders. Thank You, may God continue to heal and Bless you and your beautiful family.
Brittany, you have great tenacity and a resolve that will keep you in good stead. May you be blessed with increased health and healing. You're right, it's not an overnight journey, just small improvements every day is wonderful progress we can all hold gratitude for.
So refreshing to read, thank you for sharing sanity and the raw realness. You’re right - so many ppl just don’t wanna hear any of this. It’s too “slow”, not linear enough, and they won’t admit that their desire for a magic bullet is part of the problem.
Zach Bush, MD with the Farmer's Footprint just wrote a very interesting article on Lyme's disease. He mentioned that most folks diagnosed with Lyme's never remembers even getting a tick bite. Ultimately, the conclusion is that it really isn't the tick at all but the toxic overload people are experiencing. But, like you've concluded, people want a pill, or an exact prescription of daily do's and dont's, they don't really want to pay attention or change their life drastically. Blame the tick. It's much easier that way.
You know, Annie, this is where my thoughts and experiences have been bringing me. The more I learn, the less I'm convinced of any chronic health condition. It's blasphemy, I know, so I'm careful. People can be very protective of their maladies. But I am starting to believe that all chronic illnesses, whether it's autoimmune or otherwise, are often unique manifestations of toxic overload that have left the body unable to function properly. Metabolic dysregulation is a big one here with all of the vegetable oils, processed foods, and sugars in our modern diet. The ramifications of that alone affect every bodily system. Add to that environmental assaults and it's a wonder so many of us are even still ticking.
And thank you for wanting to hear my health advice :)
This comment but also your piece reminded me of Lindlahr's Nature cure..maybe you're familiar?! (almost willing to bet yes on this). " the roots of disease consisted of human vices such as self-indulgence, lack of self-control, ignorance and indifference to healthy choices. Cumulatively and collective such choices establish in the body a threshold and eventual foundation of lowered vitality, abnormal composition of blood and lymph, and the accumulation of morbid matter and poisons in the body.1 Essentially, Lindlahr and his colleagues contended, it was the wrong ways of living that resulted in acute or chronic diseases.5 When disease germs find in the human body the necessary conditions for growth and propagation—namely, lowered vitality, and their congenial morbid soil—they multiply very rapidly and develop all the symptoms of that particular germ disease."
You'd lose the best, but I'm glad you told me about him. I just went to read about the book. It sounds quite interesting. I think the "meat is putrification" thing a turn-off, but that doesn't mean there isn't something to learn there. Thank you for bringing it up. I'm gonna' order it.
Ah! You're welcome. I agree with you about the meat comment. Just like anything else, it requires reading with some healthy skepticism, but there's a lot of really great takeaways.
Thank you for this...I have had stomach issues for the majority of my life (I suspect related to having Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever as a child) and gave up on doctors and specialists years ago. This doesn't mean that the issues have gone away, but it's been a slow painstaking process to figure out what does and doesn't work for me - and it still feels like I'm at the beginning most days because there are SO many things to strip and pare away and add back and simplify. It'll be a lifelong process, I'm sure.
And I think that's where the peace lies - just doing what you can today knowing that our health and healing is a dynamic, living thing. It's a purposeful joy and gift to ourselves to be in union rather than a slash and burn assault at the hands of someone else.
I had Lymes twice. First while being pregnant with my 3rd child. The second time- last year. Both times I took 2week couse of antibiotic and the red erythema dissapeared. Thats it. Living with chronic pain ( burning mouth syndrome) for 9 years already. It started 3 years after Lyme, therefore I am not sure if it can be related to Lyme, or BMS developed after I became 40 and many smaller/ bigger problems started...
Feeling the same after my 2nd Lyme, even better, as my BMS symptoms gradually becoming smaller.
Tara, I fully agree on your thoughts on healing from chronic ilness. When nobody helps, you can rely only on yourself, on listening to your body. I am doing it. And appreciating the fact that this condition/ ilness brought me to the path toward some wisdom.
Id like to join the paid subscription, but unfortunatelly cant at the moment.
It's hard to tease these things out. I'm becoming less convinced about syndromes and diseases and autoimmune conditions and leaning more to just seeing these things as unique manifestations of the same thing - toxic overloads that cause disruptions in our bodies ability to heal. But what do I know.
This part right here: “people will only do what they are ready to do.” 🙌🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Say it louder for the people in the back! Ooooo, chile (pronounced like child without the d) if I would’ve received this lesson when I was six years old I would’ve kept myself from a world of trouble 😂. Each one, teach one, sis!
Everything about this article resonated with me. Ugh! The yo-yo effect of it all I dare say is more exhausting than the condition! The years of experimenting, the numerous arrivals to truth then fallacy then truth again with fallacy a$& waiting around the corner. “Ms. Williams you have inflammatory bowel disease. Wait, it’s CIN1. Wait, it’s endometriosis. No. Wait, no, it’s colitis. Wait, you have diverticulitis. Wait, Crohn’s disease is likely to occur. Wait, turns out you just have ulcers. Wait, while looking at your scan we found polyps. Oh, and wait, there something on your liver. Wait, we found something on your brain. Wait. Wait. Wait.” I got tired of waiting so I ditched the diagnoses. Several years ago I learned that body wisdom is the only “diet” that works and by “diet” I literally mean your eating regimen - how you eat. My body has always told me what it wants but I haven’t always listened. I’m still learning. Many of us were conditioned away from going inside and only have an external relationship with our bodies, minds, and souls. Times are changing though and the responses here are evidence of such. It’s healing to read about the experiences of others, to know that we are all listening to our bodies. The wisdom of the ancestors has awakened inside of us. 🙏🏾 How delightful!
You know, I've come to think that the reason they flip and flop in trying to figure out what's going on is because they just really don't know. There is a set of symptoms that they try to match to a disease as best they can and then they curse you with a diagnosis. I don't even think it matters anymore.
Did it ultimately matter that I had Lyme or MS or Lupus? I don't even think so. I would have gotten better doing what I did for any of those things. Some people are saying, "Lyme might not be Lyme after all" and I'm thinking, "Nothing is".
I think what we are dealing with when we are dealing with chronic illness is the overload of toxins, dysregulation of metabolic systems, and sick environments. How that manifests in you is different than me.
On a farm, a calf that is taken from its mother must still be fed colostrum or it may die. From there, it gets a powdered formula. Those calves never thrive like their mother raised brethren. Yet in humans, we disregard these fundamentals. I was fed soy formula. I was given antibiotics my entire childhood, multiple times every year. I was on antibiotics for four years as a teenager. Can I ever get back what God gave me when I was born? I don't think so, but wow, it's amazing what the body will deliver anyhow. :)
This. So much of this. There was a time I could hardly stand on my feet because the pain was so bad. This time, two years ago, my children had to watch me crawl across the floor just to use the bathroom. My poor family had to watch me crying for hours, unable to sleep more than 30 minutes a night. I had lost close to 40lbs in a matter of weeks from the extreme stress my body was under. I looked like a skeleton. All ribs and muscle wasted. I am not exaggerating when I say that I believed I would soon be wheelchair bound if there was no change in my health trajectory, and that was the most positive prediction of my health that I could muster.
My health (like yours, Tara) has also improved due to carefully calculated choices about what to allow in my world and more importantly what to remove. I agree. There is no secret sauce. I removed “the static” just as you said. Started eliminating things. Some big. Some some small. Some costly.
But that’s the thing... once you remove something, your body can identify more clearly what’s the next problem area in the hierarchy of the toxic soup modern society pushes us to live in, and as you pointed out it’s not just your diet. I was eating an extremely “clean and raw” diet just before my body broke. No doubt about it. Our health is deeply connected with our food, water, and living environment. I may never be “healed” but my quality of life has absolutely improved in the last couple years. I intend to keep it that way. Thank you so much for writing this message, from one canary to another. *hugs*
I'm so happy you are feeling better, Trista. It can be very scary when you're in the depths of misery and there are no ready answers. The body is an amazing thing.
Dear Tara, I LOVE your articles!! THANK YOU!! This one inspired me a lot, the previous one - marige topic too. THANKS for your clear thoughts. I would welcome your advice/article in the topic of strong sugar Addiction / chocolate Addiction, my huge problem since childehood....40 years.... 🤷🏻♀️
I will definitely write about that MZ. Have you checked out the work of Bitten Jonsson? She is absolutely brilliant. Her understanding of sugar addiction is profound.
..thank you very much for the link to mrs. Jonsson, looks really very interesting !!👍 I hope you are well, you have not posted on ig for a few days. Me and my husband started following the convoy situation in Canada on your account and in media in our Czech Republic, but the todays situation seems somehow unclear to us...🤔🧐....we would welcome info from your point of view very much!! regards from the CR!! 🧡
So true! Had a huge trauma in my immediate family and faced it head on for 3 months. Then once I returned to my home, my body caved in on me. That started 2018. And I am slowly figuring out what to remove and what to bring in as I give my body time. Time. The docs say they can do nothing but help slow down the issues as my body takes time to figure itself out. The pain, the dying to self, the giving up that initially felt like the end of the world has all become wise teachers. I see life with mountain peak eyesight now. And the climb is multi-dimensional and multi-angled! The earth has become my precious friend. The animals too. I can hear aspects of myself better this year than last, but others still sound muffled. But I keep listening, keep removing in the moments when I muster up enough courage to do so. I give myself space for the coward in me to get her boldness together. Otherwise it is all too much.
So much of what you said hit home.
Even last week I shifted with something simple for my skin, tallow balm instead of prescription medicated ointment. My skin was at peace after I lathered it. I felt surround by an ancient comfort that night. It's not just one thing, it's everything. And taking the Time to figure it out for me is meditative I think. Because it reaches deeply in, but also extends into nature and into the far reaches of Heaven for me.
That's so beautiful, Yvette, "It's not just one thing, it's everything." Yes, it is and that's how we heal and those are the gifts that come with that healing. Big hugs to you.
That is absolutely true! I've had family and personal issues with allopathic medicine for almost my entire life. After taking my health back from the experts, I studied homeopathy, herbalism, and nutrition and opened a shop to help people take control of their own health. Sadly, the majority of people wanted a 'quick fix.' What can I take for this? What do you have for that? When I suggested we not look at symptoms, but underlying issues in lifestyle and nutrition most people responded with, "I can't because..." It was disheartening. I. experienced this with my. mother as well; she was diagnosed with MS at 17! A whole health practitioner put her on a gluten free diet back in the '80s that worked well for her, but it turned out she didn't want to give up her diagnosis, it was too tied to her identity. A huge part of healing, in my opinion, is the story we tell ourselves and others about our health issues. We do a disservice to ourselves by believing our body's complicated, beautiful systems are isolated from one another.
Towards the end of my shop days, I stopped making tinctures, teas, etc. and just made incense, essential oil blends, and bath blends because it was what people wanted to purchase.
Rochelle! “A huge part of healing, in my opinion, is the story we tell ourselves and others about our health issues.”
Ooooo, the wisdom in this! Something my folks used to say was “don’t claim it!” We were taught not to speak things on ourselves and more importantly, not to let others speak things over us. There is a frequency attached to illness and sadly that frequency can become a comfort.
My favourite physician, and truly one of my favourite humans, says "a diagnosis is a curse". He means that literally and I take it literally. I feel the same way. And truth be told, getting better from "Lyme" also meant untangling from the story that had become part of my identity. It sounds pathetic, but when you are putting all you have into getting well, that exorbitant spend of energy and focus can have us start believing that we are little beyond "getting better".
In truth, I don't even believe in chronic illness anymore but that is a story for another day. xo
Im just going to adopt you as Mama Tara. You have been such a blessing in my life with all of you kind, honest, tough and sweet words. You cant even imaging how you are helping others. Im sorry for all your suffering, and I thank you for sharing your struggles and triumphs 💜
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Your words are exactly the encouragement I've been needing. I won't call it a health journey, but I'm slogging through some kind of saga. It's so good to not feel lonely on the path.
Lovely. And I agree with you. I have some sort of mast cell disorder that causes Histamine Intolerance. So, I’m on the same path you are with regard to living with it. Listening to my body is a really important piece of my daily health.
Wow, you have described my last three years quite well. I was hit in the car and it caused me life threatening seizures. This made me perfect bait for every neurological specialist in our area to “be the cause of my healing” their medical genius that includes looking up drugs in a system to make sure they are to stop seizures and then prescribing them to be thousands of MG at a time. Then to go back and have them cheer my seizures have lessened all because of their genius prescription that left me with 14 new issues but slightly less seizures. It’s sickening. I search and find alternative options and they call it quackery. I try other things and they have yelled at me. I eventually stopped seeing them. I am on the path to healing because the Good Lord determined it is time for me to start healing. Not only do seizure medications cause a tolerance build up and severe seizures if your body withdrawals at all…. They caused me 39lb weight gain in three weeks, hair loss, depressed feelings, rage feelings, extreme fatigue from mineral depletion that the doctors have never heard of. 🤦🏽♀️ I am glad to have gone through all of this. Nearly crossing over into the afterlife took my fear of death completely away and that gave me more strength to fight while I am here. They tell me I will be on seizure meds for life. I know I will not be. God yes, but My chiropractor three times a week is the only human who deserves credit for my healing thus far as well as all of the effort on my behalf. I know exactly how you feel when you say it’s not an answer people want to hear. I have been told after physical proof of my methods working that it is quackery… so now I do not mention anything I am doing to heal. I do not schedule follow ups and I laugh when they say I will take the drugs forever. These Money Doctors only care about their check, being in good standing with their sponsors and getting soul credit for our healing through their magic pills. It’s an exhausting loop and I am so glad to be free. Thank you for sharing. Although our ailments are way different our experiences are so similar.
We are working to live off the land and I know getting on your level with be the icing on my healing cake by completely removing all foul crumbs still making their way into our bodies. This is not an overnight journey I have always known that but you saying “ten years” really helps me stay motivated on this path back to a home without intruders. Thank You, may God continue to heal and Bless you and your beautiful family.
Brittany, you have great tenacity and a resolve that will keep you in good stead. May you be blessed with increased health and healing. You're right, it's not an overnight journey, just small improvements every day is wonderful progress we can all hold gratitude for.
So refreshing to read, thank you for sharing sanity and the raw realness. You’re right - so many ppl just don’t wanna hear any of this. It’s too “slow”, not linear enough, and they won’t admit that their desire for a magic bullet is part of the problem.
Zach Bush, MD with the Farmer's Footprint just wrote a very interesting article on Lyme's disease. He mentioned that most folks diagnosed with Lyme's never remembers even getting a tick bite. Ultimately, the conclusion is that it really isn't the tick at all but the toxic overload people are experiencing. But, like you've concluded, people want a pill, or an exact prescription of daily do's and dont's, they don't really want to pay attention or change their life drastically. Blame the tick. It's much easier that way.
P.s. I want to hear your health advice ;-)
You know, Annie, this is where my thoughts and experiences have been bringing me. The more I learn, the less I'm convinced of any chronic health condition. It's blasphemy, I know, so I'm careful. People can be very protective of their maladies. But I am starting to believe that all chronic illnesses, whether it's autoimmune or otherwise, are often unique manifestations of toxic overload that have left the body unable to function properly. Metabolic dysregulation is a big one here with all of the vegetable oils, processed foods, and sugars in our modern diet. The ramifications of that alone affect every bodily system. Add to that environmental assaults and it's a wonder so many of us are even still ticking.
And thank you for wanting to hear my health advice :)
This comment but also your piece reminded me of Lindlahr's Nature cure..maybe you're familiar?! (almost willing to bet yes on this). " the roots of disease consisted of human vices such as self-indulgence, lack of self-control, ignorance and indifference to healthy choices. Cumulatively and collective such choices establish in the body a threshold and eventual foundation of lowered vitality, abnormal composition of blood and lymph, and the accumulation of morbid matter and poisons in the body.1 Essentially, Lindlahr and his colleagues contended, it was the wrong ways of living that resulted in acute or chronic diseases.5 When disease germs find in the human body the necessary conditions for growth and propagation—namely, lowered vitality, and their congenial morbid soil—they multiply very rapidly and develop all the symptoms of that particular germ disease."
You'd lose the best, but I'm glad you told me about him. I just went to read about the book. It sounds quite interesting. I think the "meat is putrification" thing a turn-off, but that doesn't mean there isn't something to learn there. Thank you for bringing it up. I'm gonna' order it.
Ah! You're welcome. I agree with you about the meat comment. Just like anything else, it requires reading with some healthy skepticism, but there's a lot of really great takeaways.
Thank you for this...I have had stomach issues for the majority of my life (I suspect related to having Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever as a child) and gave up on doctors and specialists years ago. This doesn't mean that the issues have gone away, but it's been a slow painstaking process to figure out what does and doesn't work for me - and it still feels like I'm at the beginning most days because there are SO many things to strip and pare away and add back and simplify. It'll be a lifelong process, I'm sure.
And I think that's where the peace lies - just doing what you can today knowing that our health and healing is a dynamic, living thing. It's a purposeful joy and gift to ourselves to be in union rather than a slash and burn assault at the hands of someone else.
I feel this Molly! The slowing down and tuning in are essential to the healing process.
I had Lymes twice. First while being pregnant with my 3rd child. The second time- last year. Both times I took 2week couse of antibiotic and the red erythema dissapeared. Thats it. Living with chronic pain ( burning mouth syndrome) for 9 years already. It started 3 years after Lyme, therefore I am not sure if it can be related to Lyme, or BMS developed after I became 40 and many smaller/ bigger problems started...
Feeling the same after my 2nd Lyme, even better, as my BMS symptoms gradually becoming smaller.
Tara, I fully agree on your thoughts on healing from chronic ilness. When nobody helps, you can rely only on yourself, on listening to your body. I am doing it. And appreciating the fact that this condition/ ilness brought me to the path toward some wisdom.
Id like to join the paid subscription, but unfortunatelly cant at the moment.
It's hard to tease these things out. I'm becoming less convinced about syndromes and diseases and autoimmune conditions and leaning more to just seeing these things as unique manifestations of the same thing - toxic overloads that cause disruptions in our bodies ability to heal. But what do I know.
This part right here: “people will only do what they are ready to do.” 🙌🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Say it louder for the people in the back! Ooooo, chile (pronounced like child without the d) if I would’ve received this lesson when I was six years old I would’ve kept myself from a world of trouble 😂. Each one, teach one, sis!
Everything about this article resonated with me. Ugh! The yo-yo effect of it all I dare say is more exhausting than the condition! The years of experimenting, the numerous arrivals to truth then fallacy then truth again with fallacy a$& waiting around the corner. “Ms. Williams you have inflammatory bowel disease. Wait, it’s CIN1. Wait, it’s endometriosis. No. Wait, no, it’s colitis. Wait, you have diverticulitis. Wait, Crohn’s disease is likely to occur. Wait, turns out you just have ulcers. Wait, while looking at your scan we found polyps. Oh, and wait, there something on your liver. Wait, we found something on your brain. Wait. Wait. Wait.” I got tired of waiting so I ditched the diagnoses. Several years ago I learned that body wisdom is the only “diet” that works and by “diet” I literally mean your eating regimen - how you eat. My body has always told me what it wants but I haven’t always listened. I’m still learning. Many of us were conditioned away from going inside and only have an external relationship with our bodies, minds, and souls. Times are changing though and the responses here are evidence of such. It’s healing to read about the experiences of others, to know that we are all listening to our bodies. The wisdom of the ancestors has awakened inside of us. 🙏🏾 How delightful!
You know, I've come to think that the reason they flip and flop in trying to figure out what's going on is because they just really don't know. There is a set of symptoms that they try to match to a disease as best they can and then they curse you with a diagnosis. I don't even think it matters anymore.
Did it ultimately matter that I had Lyme or MS or Lupus? I don't even think so. I would have gotten better doing what I did for any of those things. Some people are saying, "Lyme might not be Lyme after all" and I'm thinking, "Nothing is".
I think what we are dealing with when we are dealing with chronic illness is the overload of toxins, dysregulation of metabolic systems, and sick environments. How that manifests in you is different than me.
On a farm, a calf that is taken from its mother must still be fed colostrum or it may die. From there, it gets a powdered formula. Those calves never thrive like their mother raised brethren. Yet in humans, we disregard these fundamentals. I was fed soy formula. I was given antibiotics my entire childhood, multiple times every year. I was on antibiotics for four years as a teenager. Can I ever get back what God gave me when I was born? I don't think so, but wow, it's amazing what the body will deliver anyhow. :)
This. So much of this. There was a time I could hardly stand on my feet because the pain was so bad. This time, two years ago, my children had to watch me crawl across the floor just to use the bathroom. My poor family had to watch me crying for hours, unable to sleep more than 30 minutes a night. I had lost close to 40lbs in a matter of weeks from the extreme stress my body was under. I looked like a skeleton. All ribs and muscle wasted. I am not exaggerating when I say that I believed I would soon be wheelchair bound if there was no change in my health trajectory, and that was the most positive prediction of my health that I could muster.
My health (like yours, Tara) has also improved due to carefully calculated choices about what to allow in my world and more importantly what to remove. I agree. There is no secret sauce. I removed “the static” just as you said. Started eliminating things. Some big. Some some small. Some costly.
But that’s the thing... once you remove something, your body can identify more clearly what’s the next problem area in the hierarchy of the toxic soup modern society pushes us to live in, and as you pointed out it’s not just your diet. I was eating an extremely “clean and raw” diet just before my body broke. No doubt about it. Our health is deeply connected with our food, water, and living environment. I may never be “healed” but my quality of life has absolutely improved in the last couple years. I intend to keep it that way. Thank you so much for writing this message, from one canary to another. *hugs*
I'm so happy you are feeling better, Trista. It can be very scary when you're in the depths of misery and there are no ready answers. The body is an amazing thing.
Thank you for sharing!! Exactly what I needed to read this morning!
Same!
Dear Tara, I LOVE your articles!! THANK YOU!! This one inspired me a lot, the previous one - marige topic too. THANKS for your clear thoughts. I would welcome your advice/article in the topic of strong sugar Addiction / chocolate Addiction, my huge problem since childehood....40 years.... 🤷🏻♀️
I will definitely write about that MZ. Have you checked out the work of Bitten Jonsson? She is absolutely brilliant. Her understanding of sugar addiction is profound.
..thank you very much for the link to mrs. Jonsson, looks really very interesting !!👍 I hope you are well, you have not posted on ig for a few days. Me and my husband started following the convoy situation in Canada on your account and in media in our Czech Republic, but the todays situation seems somehow unclear to us...🤔🧐....we would welcome info from your point of view very much!! regards from the CR!! 🧡
So true! Had a huge trauma in my immediate family and faced it head on for 3 months. Then once I returned to my home, my body caved in on me. That started 2018. And I am slowly figuring out what to remove and what to bring in as I give my body time. Time. The docs say they can do nothing but help slow down the issues as my body takes time to figure itself out. The pain, the dying to self, the giving up that initially felt like the end of the world has all become wise teachers. I see life with mountain peak eyesight now. And the climb is multi-dimensional and multi-angled! The earth has become my precious friend. The animals too. I can hear aspects of myself better this year than last, but others still sound muffled. But I keep listening, keep removing in the moments when I muster up enough courage to do so. I give myself space for the coward in me to get her boldness together. Otherwise it is all too much.
So much of what you said hit home.
Even last week I shifted with something simple for my skin, tallow balm instead of prescription medicated ointment. My skin was at peace after I lathered it. I felt surround by an ancient comfort that night. It's not just one thing, it's everything. And taking the Time to figure it out for me is meditative I think. Because it reaches deeply in, but also extends into nature and into the far reaches of Heaven for me.
That's so beautiful, Yvette, "It's not just one thing, it's everything." Yes, it is and that's how we heal and those are the gifts that come with that healing. Big hugs to you.
I hug back tightly.
Your words, on paper and in audio, always brings such peace and calmness within me. Thank you for sharing your life with us ❤️❤️
I'm so honoured to hear this.
This is perfection. Thank you ❤️🙏🏻
thank you.
That is absolutely true! I've had family and personal issues with allopathic medicine for almost my entire life. After taking my health back from the experts, I studied homeopathy, herbalism, and nutrition and opened a shop to help people take control of their own health. Sadly, the majority of people wanted a 'quick fix.' What can I take for this? What do you have for that? When I suggested we not look at symptoms, but underlying issues in lifestyle and nutrition most people responded with, "I can't because..." It was disheartening. I. experienced this with my. mother as well; she was diagnosed with MS at 17! A whole health practitioner put her on a gluten free diet back in the '80s that worked well for her, but it turned out she didn't want to give up her diagnosis, it was too tied to her identity. A huge part of healing, in my opinion, is the story we tell ourselves and others about our health issues. We do a disservice to ourselves by believing our body's complicated, beautiful systems are isolated from one another.
Towards the end of my shop days, I stopped making tinctures, teas, etc. and just made incense, essential oil blends, and bath blends because it was what people wanted to purchase.
Fabulous reading list, btw.
Rochelle! “A huge part of healing, in my opinion, is the story we tell ourselves and others about our health issues.”
Ooooo, the wisdom in this! Something my folks used to say was “don’t claim it!” We were taught not to speak things on ourselves and more importantly, not to let others speak things over us. There is a frequency attached to illness and sadly that frequency can become a comfort.
Thank you for sharing your story!
YES! Do not claim those things! I seldom talk about anything to do with health with anyone other than my immediate family.
My favourite physician, and truly one of my favourite humans, says "a diagnosis is a curse". He means that literally and I take it literally. I feel the same way. And truth be told, getting better from "Lyme" also meant untangling from the story that had become part of my identity. It sounds pathetic, but when you are putting all you have into getting well, that exorbitant spend of energy and focus can have us start believing that we are little beyond "getting better".
In truth, I don't even believe in chronic illness anymore but that is a story for another day. xo
I don't believe in chronic illness either! And I do want to hear that story. You are a light - keep shining! xo
Im just going to adopt you as Mama Tara. You have been such a blessing in my life with all of you kind, honest, tough and sweet words. You cant even imaging how you are helping others. Im sorry for all your suffering, and I thank you for sharing your struggles and triumphs 💜
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Your words are exactly the encouragement I've been needing. I won't call it a health journey, but I'm slogging through some kind of saga. It's so good to not feel lonely on the path.
Lovely. And I agree with you. I have some sort of mast cell disorder that causes Histamine Intolerance. So, I’m on the same path you are with regard to living with it. Listening to my body is a really important piece of my daily health.