What are EMFs? How are they impacting your health?

October 23, 2017 by Unconventional Traditional Leave a Comment

I hope you had an awesome weekend! I had a fantastic weekend – we just adopted a kitten!! His name is yet to be determined, actually, we’re kind of arguing about it, but I will fill you in shortly. My little boy is over-the-moon happy! I will post adorable kitten pictures on the FaceBook group soon!

Have you ever heard about how your cell phone and your electronics can damage your health? I have heard vague things about this in the past, but I never could pin down what was going on and what I could do about it. I found out from my friend Risa Suzuki (bio below), with just a few small changes, people can sleep better, reduce sensitivities, and have more energy!

In last spring’s Healing Fibromyalgia – Chronic Fatigue – ME World TeleSummit, Risa talked about home detox practices. Now she and I are hosting a free webinar next week called “How to Reduce EMFs in the Home.” In this master class, you will find out what EMFs are, how they impact your health, and tips for reducing them immediately! This is going to a very information-packed webinar to make things better in your home! We’ll be doing the webinar live Thursday, Oct. 26^th at 12 pm PST, and 3 pm EST. To register go to http://bit.ly/2zeBEbJ

Did you know I used to have PTSD? It was a souvenir from my time in Bosnia. When I recovered my health from fibromyalgia, I used meridian tapping to get rid of the anxiety and PTSD. I still use it daily for everything – good and bad things, and I even have instructions for how to do this powerful tool in my book, Freedom from Fibromyalgia: 7 Steps to Complete Recovery.

A few months ago my massage therapist told me about a free resource, Tapping with Brad Yates on YouTube. He has over 700 short tapping videos on nearly any subject you can think of. I’m so impressed with Brad, that when I found out he was coming to Ohio I took my entire team on Friday to see him and learn to do this powerful yet easy technique to clear and strengthen one’s mind. Oh, and now I enjoy seeing fireworks shows again instead of feeling like I’m going to die. If you try it, let me know your results!

Risa Suzuki BIO

Risa Suzuki is the creator of the How to Reduce EMFs online course and programs. Risa helps people reduce EMFs in their homes to fight back against the health effects of EMFs so they can get better sleep, have more energy, and reduce sensitivities or triggers for people who already have health concerns or compromised immune systems.

I’m dedicated to bringing you great information that you can use in your life NOW to improve it. If there is ever a topic you would like me to write about, please reply to this email and let me know. Have a beautiful week!

Yours in joy and health,

Leah

Filed Under: PSTD, taking care of yourself Tagged With: emfs, energy

Thanksgiving Day Before and After Fibromyalgia

November 25, 2015 by Leave a Comment

What are you doing today?

How I’m Celebrating Thanksgiving This Year

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I just love the idea of setting aside a day to celebrate gratitude with family and friends. However, in the past before I recovered from fibromyalgia, it was an ordeal.

Thanksgiving before Fibromyalgia Recovery

My husband and I would go to a family member’s house, and I could just see the looks of pity and disbelief about what a waste of human I had become. To be clear, no one actually treated me like that, that was my own loathing self-talk at work. Near the end of my illness, I was so bad off that I had to make arrangements with my mother-in-law ahead of time to lay down after dinner. The house was so chock-full of overnight guests she let me use her bed. My sweet mother-in-law was very accommodating.

Sometimes in my normal day-to-day life, my life didn’t seem so horrendous. But then the reality of my situation became exposed to the awful light of day when someone asked some form of the simple question, “What do you do all day?” My illusions shattered by the light of that question, especially if it was posed by someone whose opinion mattered to me.

Trying to answer that question with any semblance of dignity was impossible. I was embarrassed and ashamed that I was sick. I tried to hide it as best I could, but for the people who knew me well, the life I was leading was just not me. I felt like I was in a black hole and that I was just enduring life. Being asked about my days on the occasional holidays highlighted the fact that my life sucked.

So between Halloween candy, overindulgence during the holidays, lack of sunlight and of course an already raging case of major depression and anxiety, by the time February came along I was usually in a black pit of despair. I never wanted to actually commit suicide, but I certainly didn’t want to keep on living that way, I just didn’t want to be alive anymore if this was my reality.

This went on for about six years and then one year was different. In December of 2007 I met holistic therapist Victoria Smith. In January I started what later became The Healing Cleanse™ (as detailed in Freedom from Fibromyalgia: 7 Steps to Complete Recovery) and within three weeks I felt so much better, I thought I was cured. I was far from cured, I had a long way to go, but I continued on The Healing Cleanse™, and other healing therapies, for nearly a year and every one of the symptoms of fibromyalgia and the coexisting conditions disappeared. (I teach about this in-depth in my book Freedom from Fibromyalgia: 7 Steps to Complete Recovery.)

Thanksgiving Now

Fast forward seven years from then, and my life is completely different. I am living the life of my dreams! I have everything I have ever wanted and more on its way. I have a child (I was infertile before), I have an exciting and fulfilling career that aligns with my life mission, I have lots of friends and go to parties, I travel, and I exercise because my body WANTS to move.

I am not saying all this to brag or make anyone feel bad. I am looking to inspire and motivate, to show what is possible. The way I am celebrating Thanksgiving this year is by participating in a 5 mile run. (You can read about my Half-Marathon Miracle here.) Now I run because I love how it feels and how I feel afterwards.
My body loves to move. This is a real thing – a healthy body WANTS to move. (When I was sick, every fiber of my being screamed at me to be still.)
So instead of feeling dark despair by the time February comes along, I am hosting the first-ever of its kind world-wide Fibromyalgia Telesummit Janurary 26-28th, and then the teleseries course 3D Fibromyalgia Healing in February. And then later on into March, I will be a keynote speaker at a medical conference to instruct medical doctors about how to go about helping their patients heal from fibromyalgia.
Wow! What a difference!

That, my friends, is a lot to be thankful for!

So how are you spending Thanksgiving this year? What are your hopes for next year? I look forward to reading your answers in the comments!

Happy Heartfelt Thanksgiving!!
Yours in joy and health,
Leah
The Fibro Lady

Filed Under: chronic fatigue, depression, Fibromyalgia Recovery, Holistic remedies, PSTD Tagged With: chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, recover from fibromyalgia

Pets for Fibromyalgia

August 29, 2015 by Leave a Comment

Why Do Many Chronicly Ill Patients have Pets?

I get to talk to people every day that have a chronic illness of some kind. When talking about comfort measures, an often overlooked one is pets. When I was severely ill with fibromyalgia and its coexisting conditions I had several pets that meant the world to me. They were part of my family and my link to the world.

I lived in a two-story house and I had to go down both flights of steps to let the dogs out into the yard. Some days it was all I could do to get up and down those steps to let them out. I was actually wishing for a one level house, which, ironically now that I’m well, I now live in. But going up and down those steps, and letting them outside and interacting with them, was part of the bridge that kept me in this world.

It can be very difficult for “normal” people to understand how isolating it is to have a chronic illness. In my case, I lost my job, I lost most of my friends; my family relationships were strained, and at the worst points, the only “social” interactions I had were with health care providers. I wasn’t shopping, going to restaurants or going to movies. I felt like an elderly shut-in person, which is awful for anyone but, for an outgoing and friendly person such as myself, that is even more terrible.

There were times when I was so depressed and in so much pain that the only things that kept me in this world were my husband, my parents and my pets. My sweet little pets were my non-judgmental friends that were a great comfort to me. Petting and interacting with them was a tangible way to get some much needed social and emotional stimulation. I was very fortunate that my husband was able to take care of the litter boxes and take the dogs for a walk. The only thing I could do with them was let them out into our fenced back yard, as I mentioned above.

When I started to recover, my fur babies were right there with me. In the mornings I would get up to spend some time with my husband before he left for work. Normally, after he left, I would go back to bed, and sometimes that would be the best sleep I could get. As I started to recover, I started sleeping normally and I didn’t have to lay down in the morning. After my husband left in the morning, the gang would start trotting down the hall to the bedroom, but when I didn’t follow they got confused. This was one of the signs for me that things had really changed.

One of the more “impossible” things I thought could never happen was horseback riding: I was too heavy, my boots wouldn’t fit because my feet had grown, and my knees were shot. Much to my surprise, after I lost 70 pounds, my feet and calves shrunk so much that my from college fit again and my knees didn’t hurt anymore. I began taking riding lessons again and after an over 20 year hiatus I was shocked how my body remembered to ride. It was wonderful!

I have been so well for over seven years now so all those precious pets have now gotten old and passed away. We wanted to wait awhile before we got any more pets, but the house didn’t feel like a home without a dog and a cat. After our last cat died we only waited three months before we got our new cat Mitzi, and after our last dog died we only waited five months before we got our new dog, Annie.

What types of comfort measures have you taken that have worked to alleviate the social and emotional isolation that having a chronic illness makes? Also I would love to see a picture of your fur babies, preferably with you!