[image error]There is a poem about the ‘road less traveled’ . . . and I, I took that stinkin’ road and it kicked my ass.

I know there is great suffering all around me, suffering that would probably blow my mind if I knew about it. Like the death of my neighbor, which brings me great sadness as he was one neat dude, folks in chronic pain, folks who are tortured, folks that have a mental illness, etc., etc. I can’t think too deep into suffering because as an empath, I feel it all and I can’t bear it. What I’m saying is my suffering has been minor compared, but suffering nonetheless.

My last blog was about birth control, IUD’s, and a warning and in the days since I wrote that blog, I hit a wall and have had a myriad of emotions flooding my mind, heart, and soul. I have had a couple of come aparts because of it and I stepped out yesterday on Facebook revealing my pain (again) and asked for prayers. I believe in the power of prayer and it has worked. Thanks to everyone who sent prayers, I am in awe that you would do this for me, but so stinkin thankful.

I’ve become a bit of a private person, not because I am mad at the world, no, I love this world beyond reason, even though certain inhabitants of this lovely world are trying to screw it up for the rest of us. Private because I find the more ‘ruckus’ I allow in my personal world, the more I become removed from my own mind and my own feelings about things, thus causing me a great deal of chaos and takes away from my blessing of a job as a pediatric OT, a wife, a mom, etc.

In the last several years, I have had a bit of an awakening about the power of the mind, the importance of empowering our subconscious, our bodies ability to heal itself, and energy medicine. In my practice, I have become more of a holistic pediatric OT and the benefits of this are showing in each and every one of my OT kids. The book that I have written explains what I am talking about but I’m here to tell you, there will be a second addition to that book as I uncover even more marvelous things about our planet, subtle energy, and our bodies. I am also contacted on a regular basis from other therapists wanting to know what it is that I am doing so they can practice this at their clinics. I am honored by this and refer them to the various books that I love as well as the one I have written.

Let me give you a little diddy that you may not know . . . where is long-term memory stored? Scientists don’t know because when people have parts of their brain damaged or removed, they can still maintain long-term memory. Have you ever heard that saying, “What is your gut telling you?” or “What is your heart telling you?” Based on my research, I believe that not only does the brain ‘think’ but your gut and heart have thoughts too and I believe that long-term memory is stored in those organs and not the brain. I call it memory preservation aka not putting all of your eggs/thoughts/memories into one basket/brain.

Did you know that our heart has more energy than any other body part including our brain? That tells you something, folks. This is also why I preach about gut health because if your gut has knowledge, and I believe it does, and it holds 80% of your immunity, you owe it to your gut to heal it and take care of it, right? That goes for your heart too! Obviously, this is very complex but really cool!

Back to my point, if there is one today . . .

I have come to the conclusion that we are allowing our bodies to be messed with WAY too much and if we really sit back and look at things with our minds clear, we can see it too. For example, I was watching yet another new drug commercial and the side effects were unbelievable and in my opinion, out-weighed the very thing that was being treated by this new drug. Does this make sense to anyone? Why would I try to help one thing and then have to take on a dozen or so side effects as well? Duh?!

This is why I have been so angry at the events that I have allowed to take place in my life over the last several years, and more pointedly, the last few weeks. I allowed birth control pills into my body to avoid pregnancy and in doing so, lost all of my hair on my entire body, destroyed my gut, and caused a spike in my blood pressure that may never come back down. I allowed an IUD to be pierced through my uterus and suffered such great pain, that I swear to you, I had post-traumatic stress disorder for several days after the horrific pain inflicted on me as well as nightmares that it was happening over and over again. Then, I had to have a surgery because of all of this crap, something I am wholeheartedly against now that I know what I know, but I let it be done to me anyway. I feel as if I have betrayed myself but as a human being who makes mistakes, I have learned from all of this horror and hope that it can help someone else from suffering in this way.

And the icing on the cake, which scared the heck outta me, happened two days after my surgery when I hit a wall. I had no energy, I could barely walk around, I was foggy, confused, and felt a huge dread swimming around in my body. I kept having thoughts about a lady that I heard of that had surgery and died because of a blood clot several years back in our town. I was terrified that I was next but begged for this not to happen as I have so much left to do on this planet of ours.

In the end, I came down with a terrible cold 4 days after surgery. Since I have healed my gut, I have not gotten sick once, so this was just another blow to my mind at what I had allowed to happen to my body. Because I have a history of asthma, I feared I’d end up with pneumonia when my cold moved into my chest, as this has happened several times in the past.

I will tell you this, after I sent out my prayer request on Facebook, I have woken up this morning renewed and on the mend. I thank God that He gave us the power of prayer because by the grace of God and the lovely folks that all commented that they were praying, I’ver rounded the corner and learned a great deal in the process. Thank you again, prayerful people, I can’t thank you enough!

Before you allow things to be put in your body, before you allow a surgery to happen while your gut is screaming at you that this is not the answer, and before you go against what you are feeling about a medical or health situation, do some research, I’m begging you. Research in Eastern medicine, gut health, energy medicine, vibrational healing, what the poisons that they are putting in our food are doing to us, etc. You owe it to yourself so you don’t have to suffer any longer!

All that I speak of is coming in the form of a new movement called Functional Medicine. Look it up, its real! You might also look up vibrational healing and subtle energy. Its coming and health as we know it will change for the better. Its just going to take time!

Love y’all!!