Tag: Health and Healing
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Learning to be Me
I am not alone in this state of being. A presence is with me. I am being held in an unseen, unfelt medium of rest and stillness. I can rest here. –The soles of my feet are not burning here. My hands are not burning here. My skin is not burning here. My nerves do…
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The Gerson Therapy – a book about getting well.
I started reading “The Gerson Therapy” again. This time in desperation. After a five day long headache something had to change. Too tired to attack a diet change head but with enough energy to ease into it, I began by making the simple Hippocrates soup (certain vegetables cooked and blended together) recommended for daily consumption.…
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Wahls Protocol : Day 15, Rationalization
Yesterday, after days of low energy, I had had enough of feeling tired. I had my grandkids here, asking to help me . . . no . . . begging to help me so they could earn video game time. I decided I really just needed to eat some chocolate so I would have enough…
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"The Whals Protocol" by Terry Wahls, M.D. : A Book Review
“The Whals Protocol” by Terry Wahls is a book about eating to eliminate inflammation in the body. This book is “A radical new way to treat all Chroinic autoimmune conditions using Paleo principles.”– Quote from book cover. Dr. Wahls was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and after years of treating her disease the traditional way,…
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Toot, Toot, Toot My Own Horn . . . I'm Right, I'm Right, the Belly IS the Master Brain . . . Dr. Mate Says So!
“The nervous system of the gut contains about one hundred million nerve cells — we have as many in the small intestine alone as there are in our entire spine! These nerves do more than coordinate the digestion and absorption of food and the elimination of waste — they also form part of our sensory…
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“When The Body Says No; Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection” by Gabor Mate, M.D. A Book Review
I am reading, for the second time, “When the Body Says No; Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection”. The connection between the emotions and the physical body play a more important role than many people realize. Dr. Mate recognizes and writes about this in very definite ways. The first time I read this book I was looking…
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Is Someone Shoulding on you? Are You Shoulding on Yourself?
One of the words Patricia Evans talks about in her book “The Verbally Abusive Relationship” is the word “should”. To tell someone they “should” do this, or “should” do that, is a controlling way of communicating. Shoulding is of the ways we abuse ourselves and others. Shoulding suggests shame if you don’t do what you…
Michele Ballantyne 