As always, thank you for the words you speak here, Tara! My battle with western medicine began many years ago when I was injured by the flu shot and then a "routine" polio shot. Bell's palsy at 23 years of age! I was a seemingly "healthy" young person but from that moment on I questioned everything. I never imagined the road it would bri…
As always, thank you for the words you speak here, Tara! My battle with western medicine began many years ago when I was injured by the flu shot and then a "routine" polio shot. Bell's palsy at 23 years of age! I was a seemingly "healthy" young person but from that moment on I questioned everything. I never imagined the road it would bring me down as but if I were to do it over again, I would still choose to go the way I have gone. It's a hard, often lonely path that requires so much inner work and mental fortitude. For our family, our classroom is our home. Our medicine is food, herbs and holistic supplements and natural modalities. Our "doctors" are chiropractors, herbalists and naturopaths. I will be forever grateful to a family friend and chiropractor who has courageously spoken the truth about modern medicine. He is the reason my children have never been touched by a needle. He has faced the threat of losing his practice and license continually but he continues to fight the good fight.
When I read your posts, I don't feel so alone. I'm reminded once again of why I chose the things I have chosen. Not because they are easy or convenient. Nothing good worth having ever came easy. When I've raised my children, I may have some regrets but I know there are big things I will never regret such as their education, health and faith. Thank you for sharing your life and thoughts with us. Blessings.
The fundamentals of life you are providing your children with - education, health, and faith are profound and wildly rare in today's world. They are blessed by your conviction. I, too, would change some things - what parent wouldn't??, but not those. And it's in time and years that we learn that the hardship was necessary, a push in another direction, an offering of another way. It doesn't feel like it in the moment, at least not for a good while. But now, in my fifties, I can recognize it in the instant it appears. "Oh! We're changing course, I see. Big, new things are coming." Much respect to you, Sarah. It can be a very isolating and lonely road, but our spirits are never alone and we are all intricately connected to our God and to one another, despite the optics.
As always, thank you for the words you speak here, Tara! My battle with western medicine began many years ago when I was injured by the flu shot and then a "routine" polio shot. Bell's palsy at 23 years of age! I was a seemingly "healthy" young person but from that moment on I questioned everything. I never imagined the road it would bring me down as but if I were to do it over again, I would still choose to go the way I have gone. It's a hard, often lonely path that requires so much inner work and mental fortitude. For our family, our classroom is our home. Our medicine is food, herbs and holistic supplements and natural modalities. Our "doctors" are chiropractors, herbalists and naturopaths. I will be forever grateful to a family friend and chiropractor who has courageously spoken the truth about modern medicine. He is the reason my children have never been touched by a needle. He has faced the threat of losing his practice and license continually but he continues to fight the good fight.
When I read your posts, I don't feel so alone. I'm reminded once again of why I chose the things I have chosen. Not because they are easy or convenient. Nothing good worth having ever came easy. When I've raised my children, I may have some regrets but I know there are big things I will never regret such as their education, health and faith. Thank you for sharing your life and thoughts with us. Blessings.
The fundamentals of life you are providing your children with - education, health, and faith are profound and wildly rare in today's world. They are blessed by your conviction. I, too, would change some things - what parent wouldn't??, but not those. And it's in time and years that we learn that the hardship was necessary, a push in another direction, an offering of another way. It doesn't feel like it in the moment, at least not for a good while. But now, in my fifties, I can recognize it in the instant it appears. "Oh! We're changing course, I see. Big, new things are coming." Much respect to you, Sarah. It can be a very isolating and lonely road, but our spirits are never alone and we are all intricately connected to our God and to one another, despite the optics.