Hi! Its Theresa again.
In my last blog I wrote a little bit about my story of overcoming decades of
unexplained illness and how that propelled me from the traditional medical world into the world of holistic healing. I told you just a bit about my formal training in the reversal of chronic Lyme, autoimmune and troubling symptoms. And how now I am now using my years of experience and new formal training to help others to recover their health again.
When I sit here and think about that reality I am still surprised. You see I never saw myself leaving the system I loved and served all those years to do anything holistic in nature. I can remember my patients in hospital and home care settings telling me about different holistic things that they had used to help them in certain ways and thinking to myself “ O.K., well as long as it doesn’t interfere with this REAL medicine we are giving you I guess its not a problem.” In my mind I was certain that nothing outside of pharmaceutical medications, therapies, or surgery could actually deliver
any REAL results. After all, the human body is so flawed that it needs our help to correct its weaknesses and malfunctions. I was so grateful that modern medicine had come so far in helping save lives and that we had the handle on recovery from illness- there was simply no other legitimate way. I told my patients – just make SURE you are taking your medications if you want to get well!
Interestingly, I noticed more and more as I grew older in my career that there was a subset of patients who seemed to just not respond well to these trusted traditional meds and therapies. I noticed in the last 10 years in particular that there were more and more people with severe pain syndromes, neurological and psychiatric disorders and G.I. disorders that just did not make any sense. Why were those with Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue growing in number rapidly? Wasn’t that just a stress or laziness or psychiatric disorder? Why was I seeing more and more teens and younger adults with this pain/fatigue syndrome? What on earth is causing there to be so many more children with autism spectrum disorders?
Learning disabilities and neurological and behavioral disorders seemed to be multiplying rapidly and I was seeing more and more kids being put on medications. By the time I got into my 40’s I was seeing so many more people with anxiety and OCD, panic disorders and depression. MY fellow youth leader and I at the church where we served teenagers simply could not get over the fact that 90 % of the girls in our small groups had anxiety and panic issues, allergies, asthma, eczema and psychiatric issues . And these kids came from good homes! Could it all be social media related? Peer pressure? Broken families and drug use? Poor parenting?
Then my own health crashed. I had been sick for years off and on, I just learned to push through the symptoms because no one ever took any of them seriously anyway. I was told by the doctors I went to see that I had X-Y-Z syndrome or the diagnosis of the day, and that all they could do was give me an antidepressant. I remember thinking – wait a minute- I KNOW I am really sick. This is not depression , laziness, poor character or attention getting. Getting a Lyme disease diagnosis didn’t help much. The tests were all unreliable and my mainstream doctors didn’t believe in the test results that may have shown anything real or serious going on with me. When I entered into Lyme disease treatment I ended up home bound and nearly bed bound. I certainly couldn’t work because I didn’t have the strength to even walk to my mail box much less go anywhere or stand or sit for any length of time. I prayed for death daily. This was such a hopeless, crushing illness. No one seemed to know anything for certain about any of it.
The information I was reading online was all controversial and insurance paid for none of it! No one in the field that I had served all those years legitimized the fact that I was seriously ill. I became angry and disillusioned. I felt all alone. I was so afraid that I was doomed to this prison of illness that my body was trapped in- I had no real hope offered to me except to learn to make lemonaid out of lemons. Well I did do that for many years. But this had gone too far. I was in agony of body soul and spirit and yet without validation or much support. MY wonderful family did support me through those years but I kept meeting others who were told by their family and friends to stop bringing these things on themselves. To stop faking it and acting like
a princess. To just get out there and exercise and they would probably get well. I began really thinking about others who were also trapped in bodies that didn’t function normally, and without real explanation as to why.
I started asking the WHY questions. WHY was there so much more autism now than just 10 years ago. Why were actual statistics ( as opposed to better diagnosing) telling us that autoimmune illness, neurological disorders, psychiatric disorders, GI disorders, allergies asthma and eczema and many other chronic illnesses exploding in numbers? I began asking myself is there any connection between them all? Any common root causes? The more I dug in and studied the more my suspicions were confirmed that YES there were common root causes that pioneering doctors, researchers and scientists were all talking about that explained why myself and so many others had become so sick and without any real explanation or hope for recovery.
I set about to learn not only WHAT these root causes were but HOW to recover myself and others from them. I was delighted to find a practitioner mentorship program that taught me so much more about the HOW. I set about utilizing these strategies with anyone who would trust me enough to try and help them. At first it was just family members and people I knew! But low and behold others came to see me and these people were seeing years of pain, allergies, mental and psychiatric issues, fatigue, dizziness, headaches and many other issues going away!
The longer I have been at this, the more of this I see. I FINALLY came to the conclusion that the body was the smartest healer that we had. That in order to help it to heal, that we must take away the interferences blocking it from doing what it has been programmed to do. And we must give it what it needs to do that. IT was all so common sense it blew my mind. How could I have been so blinded all these years? How could I, a person of faith, not believe that the human body was created so wonderfully that it would ALWAYS seek to heal itself. That no case was too
far gone . And that if healing wasn’t happening, that there WAS a reason why. That the
situation wasn’t really best helped by simply controlling symptoms but by taking away the root causes of the symptoms.
So what are these root causes. WE may not know all of them, but what we have learned is that our modern way of life has caused much of it!
Toxins, chemicals, heavy metals, molds and mycotoxins, microplastics and the ever increasing electromagnetic exposures we have every single day of our lives combine in the body and overwhelm our detoxification systems. When organs and entire systems become congested, sluggish, inflamed, toxic, then things just start going haywire ! All sorts of illnesses and diseases and symptoms can develop! If we look at human history, never before have human beings been so exposed to so many artificial things. Artificial foods, artificial waves in the air, and artificial molecules in the form of chemicals that the body was not ever designed to deal with. Studies are showing that sperm are losing up to 80% of their motility and their very DNA is being affected by electromagnetic radiation when men carry cell phones in their pockets. Think about that.
How many rare genetic defects are we hearing about on a regular basis now a days? Could the DNA have been affected by cell phone radiation before conception? Many smart doctors and scientists now say YES to this. Why would that not be possible? Or how many of us are coming down with rare syndrome diagnoses that affect our Gastrointestinal and nervous systems somehow? How do we know for certain that all the Electromagnetic radiation that we are being exposed to more and more and more is not affecting us? We are told it is all safe, but studies on the long term exposures have not been able to be done . There are so many variables that accurate studies would be very difficult to do. In the end our generation is a grand social experiment when it comes to all these exposures. There is no real proof that these things are safe. Especially when you combine the toxins we are born with, (studies have found up to 287 environmental toxins in new borns) with the ever increasing pharmaceuticals we take, with our daily chemical and plastic exposures, with artificial waves in the air, with mineral and nutrient deficient diets, you create the perfect storm for illness to bloom and grow.
So what do we do about all these modern exposures? We cannot live in a bubble but we can take small steps each day to remove at least some of these possible negative influences from our lives and our childrens’ lives. Eating organic food, non GMO, and whole foods is a good start. Getting a Berkey water filter with fluoride filters is another positive step . Knowing our food and water is clean daily is huge! For some people, that is truly all they need. Countless people who’ve done the Whole 30 diet come into my office and tell me how much better they feel on it. But what about the people who have tried all the clean diets and still are not making progress? They probably have gotten their microbiome out of balance and need some help correcting that. Micro what??
Microbiome. Next blog we will be discussing what this is and how it gets out of balance. How that one factor alone can cause a myriad of anxiety, OCD, depression, fatigue, pain, insomnia and many many other symptoms. Hope you will come back and read all about it!!