Picture this:
You wake up, roll over in bed, hit the alarm, and move to get up and immediately feel achy. You realize that this has become the norm. Your joints hurt, muscles ache, you have to get moving before you start to move more fluidly.
Or
Once you've got your breakfast in you, you reach for the prescription or prescriptions plural because you know if you don't do what the doctor said, your body will not cooperate. So again, taking something every day for said issue has become the norm.
What if I told you that what you're taking could be keeping you in the state you're in?
What if I told you not only do I know what I'm talking about but I was deep in a similar situation for about 20 years? It felt like forever.
You see I was on 13 different medications from "well meaning" doctors trying to help me. I was experiencing debilitating pain, seeking answers as to why (other than 6 car accidents and physical trauma), and doing everything the doctors told me to do.
What I didn't know is that whatever you feed your body, it becomes addicted to. Depending on what that is will depend on how it responds.
Food - Think about everything you know about food. What does your body crave? How does your stomach feel after eating certain foods? What makes it actually feel great after eating? Does your body respond with stomach cramps, exhaustion, heaviness,and bloating? Or do you feel energized, have great digestion, and feel light?
Media - How do you feel when watching something? With the news, does it make you worried, angry, simply informed? With TV shows - do they bring you joy, make your body feel constricted and intense, ready for what’s next like on the edge of your seat? Sad, melancholy, or depressed?
Medications - Are you feeling a real difference in your body? Are you feeling better? Are there any side effects? At all? Are you having to do things differently because of your medication including taking another medication to offset a side-effect?
Friends and Family - Do the ones that you spend your time with give you life or deplete your energy? This is so important to your well-being. We sometimes feel like because they are family, we have to be with them whenever they call but also many people experience toxic behaviors that we think are normal. The same goes for friendships. Do the ones you hang out with exhort and talk about amazing things or do your conversations always stem around all the things that are going wrong or about other people?
With each of these things, your body will move in the direction as to what it’s being fed.
It will either begin to heal itself or it will start a path of slow death.
My body’s ability to heal itself the way God created it, was being masked by all the medication it was on so it basically went to sleep and allowed the things I ingested physically, mentally/emotionally, and spiritually to take over.
This is why it is so very important to be aware of everything you surround yourself with, everything you eat, every medication you take, and who you hang around!
You will become addicted to good or bad. The body does not discriminate.
When I finally got to see a doctor that could see beyond the scope of what I was saying and look at the whole body, mentally and physically, he encouraged me to start fresh, clean out everything, and detox.
Detox it all.
I am now 14+ years of being medication free. My body went to work to heal and I have spent the better part of 17+ years learning, reconditioning, researching, and leaning more into God and the knowledge he imparted into this body when it was created.
You see, getting well, and I mean really well, like having optimum health… takes time, takes focus, and most of all takes courage.
Addiction is not something that is easy to overcome but I’m here for guiding, encouraging, and helping in any way I can.
Severe, chronic pain wreaked havoc on my body for much of my adult life and yes I understand the effects it has on a family. I understand the toll it takes on a body. I understand when the pain is so bad that you reach for the quickest thing to make it ease up. I know what it’s like to have pain that never goes away. I know what hopelessness feels like. I know what it feels like to not be able to be there for your family at the capacity you want. I know what it’s like to feel like you have to live that way with no end in sight.
I look around and so many people I talk to say, “well my doctor said it was ok to take a double dose when it gets really bad”, “well my doctor said the good outways the side-effects”, “well my doc said when I feel really anxious to take 2 with a glass of wine”, or my favorite “I drink only 1 glass of wine a night. It helps take the edge off”.
WHAT IN THE WORLD?!?!
Why is it that we feel the need to “take the edge off”?
Why are you afraid to literally feel your emotions?
Why are emo
tions so bad?
We stuff them and numb ourselves so often that when ANY EMOTION comes to the surface, we get uncomfortable. We feel ashamed. We don’t have time for them.
You were created with emotions. The problem is that most were never allowed to have them because your parents couldn’t handle yours so you learned that the so called extreme emotions were bad. With women, we stuff them so much and haven’t learned to release them appropriately that when they surface, it’s like a bomb went off!
That is why so many women are called crazy!
Women, you are not crazy!!! You only want to be allowed to feel, to be heard, and to be able to express yourself.
Again, I know what I’m talking about because that was me.
If you don’t get anything else out of this, know this.
Honesty, true honesty with yourself and others, and relaxation, the state of your body, is the beginning of true healing.
How much longer can you function in a state of “less than healed”? Isn’t it time to start the process?
For more information on what steps you can take to break the cycle, please email Caron at:
frequencyfarmhealinghomestead@gmail.com