These are pages from one of my journals. This is a healing book. It is my ongoing journal from 2011, and I have had a love hate relationship with it. I now know why. It is full of pain, loss, and confusion. That is why it made me cringe to look at it, yet I was pulled to work in it nonetheless. It's been an emotionally full year and a half. I came back from another amazing visit to Greece in September 2010, and was saddled with intense neck pain on the flight home, which lasted on and off for several months. Enter phase one of pain and the emotional toll that physical pain takes on you over time. I met an amazing acupuncturist/naturopath/body wizard that within minutes of meeting me discovered that my gallbladder was the culprit. I'm not kidding. I went back and forth, up and down, in and out of pain with that one. But the pain is gone and my gallbladder seems happy. To be cont...
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when I was pregnant with my first son I had gall bladder attacks throughout and it was the worst pain ever! Luckily it is common with some preggers as your hormones cause your gb to be unhappy. Glad you are on the mend!
ReplyDeleteIsn't it amazing when doctors fail you, and then one caring helper figures it out? I am on my journey, just like this, right now! Years of suffering could be ending very soon! I wish for you more healing and comfort. K
ReplyDeleteWell have to check what s gall bladder but i know pain neck and back pain! It make me nervous and iiritable too love your journal can t wait for you to post more of it. I m trying some journaling too not easy you are an inspiration love your work ....but you know that
ReplyDeleteThank you guys! Your support means so much. I may be in the middle of this journey with my health, but it's good that Iv'e had this journal to work it all out in. Even before I could really grasp it all and how it was changing my life, for good and bad. I realized that I had done SO MUCH journal work that I just wasn't sharing, and suddenly it felt like the right time to open up about it. Alex, I will really miss seeing you at ARTfest, another time I hope!
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