You think you have your life back on track after a divorce. A new home, a new job, a new start. And then, suddenly, your life turn upside down. It was June 2004, in the evening after a great week. The children had walked the evening four days and it was time for me to […]
Author Archives: Myoki
What is brainspotting?
Brainspotting was discovered by David Grand in 2003. He was doing EMDR with a young girl, an ice-skater. She couln’t do a certain jump and they were processing on that. He was moving his finger across her visual field very slowly and as he obeserved her eyes, he saw a kind of wobble at a […]
Trauma
We talked a lot about stress these past few months and we also talked about what you can do to deminish stress in your life. We would now like to adress trauma, since stress can develop into trauma and trauma gives a whole lot of stress. Let’s start by stating that everybody has trauma’s. So, […]
Metal recipe
Since it is the fall, salads are now energetically too cold. Salads will cool down the body, whilst in this time of year, you should make a start with warm(er) foods. As we said in our blog on the metal element, which you will find under ‘related subjects’, food with the colour white, such as […]
Metal exercise
In this period of the year, the fall, we came up with an exercise that will energize both the lungs as the large intestine. So, a perfect exercise for this time of year, although you can do this exercise throughout the year. The exercise is called hara training. Hara is an energetic point in your […]
The five elements part 5
When we started this blog December 2018, we started telling about winter, the water element (bladder and kidneys). Then we proceeded with spring, the wood element (gallbladder and liver). Spring turned into summer, the fire element (heart and the small intestine). August was the aftersummer, the earth element (spleen and stomach). You will find these […]
Baobab oil
Because my intestinal health is still not what it is supposed to be, I have a very dry skin. Because the skin is the biggest organ and because everything which is put on the skin goes straight into the body, I only want to use a totally naturalproduct. Did you know that the regular brands may call their product […]
What happened in December?
Let’s do this! December eminently is a month of looking back on the year gone by. 2018 was a year of health challenges for me. Sometimes it seemed to go uphill a bit and in the summer, it suddenly went downhill, rapidly and unexpectedly, resulting in a sigmoid/fistula resection in October, due to an ongoing (3,5 years) flare […]
What happened in January?
A new year! I wish all our readers a healthy 2019 and I hope your wishes will come true. My personal wish for 2019 is getting more energy then last year. Halfway through September I had a sort of crash. My energy was very low and my body was protesting a lot. An injury to […]
What happened in January and February?
Wow! On February 11, we welcomed our 500rd visitor on our page. Thank you so much! Making and uploading vlogs under the header movement, is still a challenge. Please bear with us, we will get there! Also in February, we made a Facebook page. So, hop over and visit us there too. Liking en sharing is caring. We will announce new blogs on there and we will also give tips and pointers. Then over to the nitty gritty of daily life. Basically, I was doing so well after surgery. I was working out at my physical therapist, I picked up swimming; I was happy like a fish in the water. And then, halfway through January, I suddenly became beyond tired. Going from bed to couch as a true couch potato. After a few days, colon trouble started again and I had to get myself into the ER. Sigh. I was so hoping this would all be over after the resection of last October. Big and tearjerking desillusion! The CRP (the inflammation marker) did not confirm inflammation. But, I almost never make fever and also my CRP never rises significantly, not even when severly inflamed. This makes it difficult to come to a correct Western diagnosis, because of their protocols. So, every time, I have to tell them to test sugar and cholesterol. And low and behold, those markers were rising. Sigh again. There was also trouble with my vitamin B12. They were trying to scale back on the shots, but once every two months turned out not to be enough for me. Actually, it was a very bad idea to scale them back right after surgery, because, anesthesia eats B12 so to say. After the shot at the beginning of February, some of the much needed energy came back. The shots will be given every 6 weeks now. Wait and see what happens, see if my body agrees with those 6 weeks. A blog on B12 will follow, since this vitamin influences so many bodily processes and so many ailments can be connected to a lack of vitamin B12. Also in January, the doctor that threw me out of the hospital last July with a perfora- ted colon, finally called and made excuses for her late reaction to my complaint of August. She had been busy and was forgetful. Pffft! She also made excuses for the fact that she made a huge mistake by discharging me from the hospital in July. At the end of January, we met up, had a face-to-face talk, more excuses, we discussed the operation report and she ordered a CT-scan. I did not have a CT scan after surgery, so I really liked this suggestion. The CT-scan will take place March 14. Geez, they must be really busy at radiology! I am still trying to get more and more fiber in my diet. Every day it is a finding out, a trying out, which foods agree with my intestines. My dietician put me on the Fodmap diet. You can read about Fodmap under the header Food & Drinks. Fodmap is most commonly used with IBS (irriable bowel disease), but it can also work for other kind of colon trouble. By the way, you can read about IBS under the header health. The first phase is elemination: all foods that are high in Fodmaps are taken out, with the purpose of giving the colon a rest. After 6 weeks, you can start adding foods […]