The edge of the “sea of me.” Welcome to 2016. It’s a good time to look at ourselves openly and without judgment. Too much self-critiquing has gotten us into this autoimmune position and it’s time to stop. Or at least become aware of all the times we do this self-crunching,…
This picture was taken two years before I was diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis. I was on a camping vacation in Montana with my husband. At the time, I ignored the joy in my face and saw only my physical aging. Today I understand better why I did. A trial for…
Trees have dropped their leaves, and we have only two days before Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday. Maybe for you, too. In the spirit of this holiday, I’d like to share with you my understanding of gratitude. It is not something I do automatically. I have to stop and look, and…
There are many things not in our control. (Our environment, for example.) Often these things bring out the child in us and spark the same feelings we had when we truly had no control over what happened to us. Today, our anxieties and sense of helplessness can make us think…
What we believe is our truth and unique to each of us. We all have patterns of thinking, unconscious beliefs formed from early childhood when we made up our minds about how the world worked. Some beliefs came from our parents, but mostly we observed, we felt, we interacted with…
Releasing emotional blockages is a process. Sit quietly and begin. Healing the mind/body connection and removing blockages requires strategies to increase awareness of what we are already thinking and feeling. But first, we need something to get our attention. Something to interrupt our normal and usual way of being. Pain…
Healing autoimmunity is not a case of healing the body alone. Healing any condition, but particularly a chronic condition requires healing the body, mind, emotions, and spirit. While the body is the last to know and to heal, (See autoimmunityjr.org entry 9/03/2015) it’s the mind and unconscious emotions that are…
In Part I, I talked about healing the body with our own personal commitment to our well being, and shared my own resources and experience with Jordan Rubin’s “The Maker’s Diet” along the path to better health. I continue to use some of Jordan Rubin’s practices three years later;…
Hi everyone. I am so happy to be sharing with you some of the things I have learned about healing autoimmunity and a few of my resources that have helped me most. I am eager to hear from you below in the comments box, so please share some things…
This summer my husband turned 75. It has been a great and wonder filled 27 years together. He is a messenger and wakes me up daily. Thinking back to when I first had symptoms of autoimmunity four years ago, we were camping in Maine with our truck camper and motorcycle,…