Wow, what a post. Years ago during my pre-high-school period, I was forced to wear a cast on my left leg for a month (This was the result of me walking like a penguin and being not careful of slippery surfaces. Fortunately, it was during my end-of-year exams, and I had a lot of time for recovery). However, because of this, I had to skip a session of my English class at that time (I remember I told my mom: "Even if I crawl, I MUST go to that English class. Otherwise, I'd feel like I'm dying).
This June, before Israel's attack on Iran, my dad fell from a tree in our villa-garden and badly injured his left foot (in the hospital, the doctors wanted to make sure his tendons weren't injured. Luckily, his tendons were unharmed). To this day, sometimes he has trouble walking stairs, and his foot swells if he sits for a long time (My dad's not the type to sit for a long time).
Oh my, how I wish I had known you back when you were trudging thru this rotten experience. I just wrote a post about my healing process too. It’s torturous at times.
Anxiety is another one of those aspects of being a sensitive human that no one truly explains (at least not enough to help me soothe mine, and learn to live with it). It’s not what is wrong with us, but it’s everything that is right about us in a world that is noisy because it’s overflowing with people who are not sensitives.
I don’t get a sense of how long ago you were in this place, nor who and how others have helped you with the anxiety.. I’d be glad to at no charge of course. DM me if you’re wanting to talk about it. You might already know all the techniques I know, but hey, I care about you, so I’m tossing this out there. It takes persistence (I Know you have tons of that❣️)
Many hugs of compassionate understanding at a core level.
Thank you so much, Teyani. This was seven years ago (!) now.
What you said is so profound: "It’s not what is wrong with us, but it’s everything that is right about us in a world that is noisy because it’s overflowing with people who are not sensitives."
Seven years, an entire life cycle. So much good within this statement just as it is. I look back at challenging times in my own life and sometimes wonder what moved me in a forward direction. I am guessing you might do that too.
Thanks for hearing my most important thought.. your body’s response is what is right about you… it’s just gotten to be a wacky world where people want others to go numb.
Sorry to hear about your accident...I've experienced broken bones a couple times. I fell three stories and broke all the little bones in my foot...It healed well and three years later, I did the LA marathon...and I did it twice more without a problem. I healed well because I was into nutrition for many years....and avoided the foods that slow down or stop the body from healing. It would be wise, if you ate an abundance of raw fruit and raw vegetables (no Salad dressing) I found an interesting product: WildBrine Probiotic Raw Organic beets, cabbage and pear, I use it along with spinach and avocado. It is a very healthy salad. This is my daily dinner. During the day fruit. I use herb teas with lemon and Kal Stevia Liquid. I have one large mug of coffee with coconut milk and stevia. Dairy and grains are deadly...avoid them. They were not designed for human consumption. My daughter was hurt twice as a passenger in an automobile...and she never healed right. She is very addicted to grains and dairy. She doesn't want to listen to mama...she is just like her father...and he was addicted to the wrong foods, too. His esteemed doctor gave him Ensure to gain weight...and the High Fructose Corn Syrup killed him, it fed his tumor and it took off like gangbusters. He was gone within 3 months. Wishing you well and may you heal rapidly!
What a diet! I love WildBrine! So good to eat raw. I have another post coming, Barbara, that I want you to comment on: about how pivotal giving up sugar and caffeine was to my recovery.
I gave up sugar in 1961, when I read how addictive and dangerous it was...destroying nutrients in the body in order to be handled. Now coffee is my only vice, I gave it up for about 25 years, but went back to a large mug a day...not more. I have no craving for sweets. I use Kal Liquid Stevia in my coffee and herb teas. I used to use honey, until it created an ugly bulbous growth above my right breast with spikes coming out of it...I gave it up. It really is the food of the hard working bees. It has lots of carbs...and i learned that excess carbs, fat and protein all trigger off the growth of tumors. I got rid of a tumor in 1976 by eliminating dairy. The High Protein Craze was instigated by Adele Davis, R,D., in the 1960s educated with info coming from the Food Industry...and I followed her information for years. She was the author of Let's Get Well, Eat Right to get Fit, etc. She advocated 125 grams of protein daily...My max is 26 grams. I wound up with unnatural cells at every check up...plus, fat and lethargic. In addition, my little boy and I had colds and sore throats constantly....and we had our tonsils out at the same time. She died of cancer in 1974 at seventy. High protein feeds the growth of tumors.
I resonate with your wonderfully expressive & insightful words. The intertwining of the wounds where one (the physical) is acceptable but the other (the throbbing emotional) is considered shameful & therefore hidden. If only sheer will could resolve & restore. I, too, know that the degree our lack of attuned early (birth to age 3) means most of us end up insecure about our acceptability which we work to hide. Our culture leaves us lacking. And I have the same distressing split.
Have you ever heard that research that when doctors tell patients how many months they have to live this reduced people's lifespan? When they didn't say anything about how many months people had, the patients usually lived longer than what was expected. This reminds me of that. How are you supposed to heal and recover when it's not even mentioned as an option? The mind keeps us sick because that's what it's been told we are.
This makes me wonder: Is it more gratifying and the easier path for the medical community to diagnose and fix a visible fracture than a mental one, since there is tangible proof of a cure?
I read the post twice and I read the whole book that gave me so much hope.I wish you could tell more about your particular steps to recover.You know, most of us want to recover more than anything else in the world and during our life span we all go trough so many efforts and experiments and efforts to do right, to get well, to recover and mor often than not we fail again and again until despair comes knocking. Could you please try to explain what makes this new effort to recover, different from all those life long struggles to save ourselves, doing everything recommended, everything ‘right’.
And thank you again beautiful Sarah for your generosity, optimism and wisdom.
How often have you heard the words "it takes time?" What does that actually mean? After looking it over, the things referenced usually don't require time. Rather, they need action or, perhaps, will. Think about violence toward our fellow humans; it could end in an instant. Just choose. Wonder why we don't? Are we running out of time?
Sarah you always write stories that leave me full of emotion, thought, and questions.
I used to identify heavily with the warrior/soldier/war metaphor. It's my nature to push and to fight and to confront fear. One of my mantras yesterday, after feeling exhausted from grocery shopping at 3 different stores for 7 people, was "I don't want to clean the bathrooms, and I will do it. "
So I did.
The thing is, though, I've learned these last 5 years, since my own mental health crisis of passive suicidality in 2020 (related to postpartum depression), is that I need far more tenderness than what I've been given or have given myself. So, part of my personal healing journey has been growing in self-compassion.
I still push myself, because o am raising 5 kids, including one with a complex genetic diagnosis. And I also give myself permission to be human, to say no, to slow down.
That's what your essay brought up for me today. Well done and thank you.
Wow, what a post. Years ago during my pre-high-school period, I was forced to wear a cast on my left leg for a month (This was the result of me walking like a penguin and being not careful of slippery surfaces. Fortunately, it was during my end-of-year exams, and I had a lot of time for recovery). However, because of this, I had to skip a session of my English class at that time (I remember I told my mom: "Even if I crawl, I MUST go to that English class. Otherwise, I'd feel like I'm dying).
This June, before Israel's attack on Iran, my dad fell from a tree in our villa-garden and badly injured his left foot (in the hospital, the doctors wanted to make sure his tendons weren't injured. Luckily, his tendons were unharmed). To this day, sometimes he has trouble walking stairs, and his foot swells if he sits for a long time (My dad's not the type to sit for a long time).
It's amazing how debilitating it is and how unaccostumed we are to not being mobile.
Yes, it is. I've not only read but also have in many videos seen that our bodies were never designed to being immobile for long periods of time.
Oh my, how I wish I had known you back when you were trudging thru this rotten experience. I just wrote a post about my healing process too. It’s torturous at times.
Anxiety is another one of those aspects of being a sensitive human that no one truly explains (at least not enough to help me soothe mine, and learn to live with it). It’s not what is wrong with us, but it’s everything that is right about us in a world that is noisy because it’s overflowing with people who are not sensitives.
I don’t get a sense of how long ago you were in this place, nor who and how others have helped you with the anxiety.. I’d be glad to at no charge of course. DM me if you’re wanting to talk about it. You might already know all the techniques I know, but hey, I care about you, so I’m tossing this out there. It takes persistence (I Know you have tons of that❣️)
Many hugs of compassionate understanding at a core level.
Thank you so much, Teyani. This was seven years ago (!) now.
What you said is so profound: "It’s not what is wrong with us, but it’s everything that is right about us in a world that is noisy because it’s overflowing with people who are not sensitives."
Seven years, an entire life cycle. So much good within this statement just as it is. I look back at challenging times in my own life and sometimes wonder what moved me in a forward direction. I am guessing you might do that too.
Thanks for hearing my most important thought.. your body’s response is what is right about you… it’s just gotten to be a wacky world where people want others to go numb.
Sorry to hear about your accident...I've experienced broken bones a couple times. I fell three stories and broke all the little bones in my foot...It healed well and three years later, I did the LA marathon...and I did it twice more without a problem. I healed well because I was into nutrition for many years....and avoided the foods that slow down or stop the body from healing. It would be wise, if you ate an abundance of raw fruit and raw vegetables (no Salad dressing) I found an interesting product: WildBrine Probiotic Raw Organic beets, cabbage and pear, I use it along with spinach and avocado. It is a very healthy salad. This is my daily dinner. During the day fruit. I use herb teas with lemon and Kal Stevia Liquid. I have one large mug of coffee with coconut milk and stevia. Dairy and grains are deadly...avoid them. They were not designed for human consumption. My daughter was hurt twice as a passenger in an automobile...and she never healed right. She is very addicted to grains and dairy. She doesn't want to listen to mama...she is just like her father...and he was addicted to the wrong foods, too. His esteemed doctor gave him Ensure to gain weight...and the High Fructose Corn Syrup killed him, it fed his tumor and it took off like gangbusters. He was gone within 3 months. Wishing you well and may you heal rapidly!
What a diet! I love WildBrine! So good to eat raw. I have another post coming, Barbara, that I want you to comment on: about how pivotal giving up sugar and caffeine was to my recovery.
I gave up sugar in 1961, when I read how addictive and dangerous it was...destroying nutrients in the body in order to be handled. Now coffee is my only vice, I gave it up for about 25 years, but went back to a large mug a day...not more. I have no craving for sweets. I use Kal Liquid Stevia in my coffee and herb teas. I used to use honey, until it created an ugly bulbous growth above my right breast with spikes coming out of it...I gave it up. It really is the food of the hard working bees. It has lots of carbs...and i learned that excess carbs, fat and protein all trigger off the growth of tumors. I got rid of a tumor in 1976 by eliminating dairy. The High Protein Craze was instigated by Adele Davis, R,D., in the 1960s educated with info coming from the Food Industry...and I followed her information for years. She was the author of Let's Get Well, Eat Right to get Fit, etc. She advocated 125 grams of protein daily...My max is 26 grams. I wound up with unnatural cells at every check up...plus, fat and lethargic. In addition, my little boy and I had colds and sore throats constantly....and we had our tonsils out at the same time. She died of cancer in 1974 at seventy. High protein feeds the growth of tumors.
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This gives me a lot of hope. I appreciated the metaphors and examples.
I resonate with your wonderfully expressive & insightful words. The intertwining of the wounds where one (the physical) is acceptable but the other (the throbbing emotional) is considered shameful & therefore hidden. If only sheer will could resolve & restore. I, too, know that the degree our lack of attuned early (birth to age 3) means most of us end up insecure about our acceptability which we work to hide. Our culture leaves us lacking. And I have the same distressing split.
David, this is a phrase I won't forget: the throbbing emotional. So well put. And it is a distressing split.
Have you ever heard that research that when doctors tell patients how many months they have to live this reduced people's lifespan? When they didn't say anything about how many months people had, the patients usually lived longer than what was expected. This reminds me of that. How are you supposed to heal and recover when it's not even mentioned as an option? The mind keeps us sick because that's what it's been told we are.
I believe that, Sophie! It's an ethical question on doctors' part. Really eerie to think about. Thank you. I mean that.
This makes me wonder: Is it more gratifying and the easier path for the medical community to diagnose and fix a visible fracture than a mental one, since there is tangible proof of a cure?
Our wonderful Sarah,
I read the post twice and I read the whole book that gave me so much hope.I wish you could tell more about your particular steps to recover.You know, most of us want to recover more than anything else in the world and during our life span we all go trough so many efforts and experiments and efforts to do right, to get well, to recover and mor often than not we fail again and again until despair comes knocking. Could you please try to explain what makes this new effort to recover, different from all those life long struggles to save ourselves, doing everything recommended, everything ‘right’.
And thank you again beautiful Sarah for your generosity, optimism and wisdom.
All my love👠🩸❤️
How often have you heard the words "it takes time?" What does that actually mean? After looking it over, the things referenced usually don't require time. Rather, they need action or, perhaps, will. Think about violence toward our fellow humans; it could end in an instant. Just choose. Wonder why we don't? Are we running out of time?
Sarah you always write stories that leave me full of emotion, thought, and questions.
I used to identify heavily with the warrior/soldier/war metaphor. It's my nature to push and to fight and to confront fear. One of my mantras yesterday, after feeling exhausted from grocery shopping at 3 different stores for 7 people, was "I don't want to clean the bathrooms, and I will do it. "
So I did.
The thing is, though, I've learned these last 5 years, since my own mental health crisis of passive suicidality in 2020 (related to postpartum depression), is that I need far more tenderness than what I've been given or have given myself. So, part of my personal healing journey has been growing in self-compassion.
I still push myself, because o am raising 5 kids, including one with a complex genetic diagnosis. And I also give myself permission to be human, to say no, to slow down.
That's what your essay brought up for me today. Well done and thank you.