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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Call if You're in Trouble

You're driving down the highway alone and skid off the road into a ditch.  You make a quick assessment of the situation and find that you have all of your parts, and your car seems to as well.  Heck, the engine is still on.  Great.  Step on the gas, and...nothing.  You're stuck.  Next steps:  Turn on the heater and end it all in a cloud of carbon monoxide?  Too dramatic.  Call a friend to get you, and leave the car to report it stolen later?  Too risky.  Call a tow truck?  Duh and bingo!  You have roadside assistance, you are safe for the time being, and you'll be out and back on track within an hour.  A simple, economical, straightforward solution to getting stuck.
What about when you're stuck in a health issue?  If your chemotherapy or antidepressants or yoga just aren't doing the trick anymore?  How can you get out of that physical or emotional ditch?  End it all in your manner of choice?  Please, no!  Get referrals for a dozen specialists and spend time and co-pays trying to find the "real" problem?  Who has time for that?
You are reading a blog about a safe, effective, and inexpensive holistic solution to being stuck in a health rut.
Total Body Analysis and the energy therapy that I practice as a complement will gently and safely help your shiny new Mercedes (that's you: your body, mind, and spirit) creep up and out of that muddy ditch in the middle of nowhere.  And you don't need a membership or insurance - just a phone call and an open mind.  If talk therapy is your bag, we can talk as long as you like. If privacy is something you hold dear, just think about your issues and your body will signal what it needs.  It's like the mechanic hooking your car up to a computer at the shop (except we don't use wires and your energy field is way smarter than a computer).
Check out Well Vibrations TBA and energy therapy or research holistic medicine on your own.  I guarantee it'll pick you up.

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Decisions, Decisions

My husband is a great guy:  Dedicated father, gifted teacher, hardworking house cleaner, and talented runner.  Sounds ideal, but who cares if he's a runner, right?  Running may not seem like a typical highlight on a husband's resume, but it is a huge part of who Mike is, and running his tenth marathon last weekend (and the week preceding it) illustrates perfectly the topic of this post:  Total Body Analysis works wonders, but we have to do right by ourselves, too.
Put yourself in Mike's (running) shoes.  You have trained well, your wife/TBA Practitioner has helped keep you in top form with remedies, good food, and love, and you are just itching to hear that starting gun blast and then take off for another Boston Marathon-qualifying race time.
Except.
Your second grade students have hacked and sneezed on you all week, your own children are involved in a hundred activities, you had to stay up for those football AND those baseball games, your wife stresses you out with her own regaling of school day challenges, and you really, really like the new drink you've discovered, the maple old fashioned, but unfortunaley bourbon is not exactly a tonic for the immune system.  So, you develop a little cough, spend nine or ten hours in bed the Wednesday through Saturday before your marathon, load up on sprouted wheat pretzels, and hope for the best, really believing Sunday will be your day to shine for 26.2 miles.
The believing part is key; we have to believe we can succeed at something in order to bring it to fruition, but as we shall see here, belief and good holistic medicine can get you to the starting line, but to finish strong, you need to give yourself some TLC.  
But aren't my primary and general remedies detoxing, antidoting, and supporting my system???  They sure are, but any toxic energy that is layered on after we make your remedy will be a factor in how you feel.  So Mike's ever-present work stress got him down, and then staying up late and the occasional weeknight old fashioned knocked him out.  His remedies helped keep him from officially getting sick, but he was not in tip-top health for peak performance in a marathon (he finished in 3:27 - still pretty danged good).
It all boils down to making decisions.  We decide we want to be healthy, but wellness doesn't stop there.  It's an ongoing, active state where we're constantly pitching, catching, swerving, and righting ourselves as the days roll on and life's challenges and rewards unfold.  It is vital to have a supportive circle of friends and family to talk with about being and staying well and to continually think about the consequences of our daily habits.  Then we can make solid decisions about how to tackle what's in front of us with the big picture in mind.  You're reading this, so you have "meta-wellness," or thinking about being well.  Decide to take the next step:  Make a TBA appointment, down a kale smoothie, or just go to bed early, and rock on knowing you're ready for a strong tomorrow.