The cold slips in beneath your covers. Frost coats the window. The warm of the fire sparks something inside as you nestle further into the colder days ahead. That something has stirred, and even if it’s unclear what that thing is, you know that it’s...
According to ancient tradition and age-old ceremony, the full moon is the perfect time to seek whole-body balance. It is believed that the cycle of the moon, coinciding with the moon’s frequencies and gravitational pull, create the perfect moment in time and...
(Special thank you to my friend Hillery. Her contribution to our family allowed us to travel for treatment. Thank you Hillery! xo ) Cultivating Self Awareness: Who are your heroes? As part of the intake process with a life coach I worked with years ago, I was asked...
Written by: Kat Woods from hope heal cook. One of the hardest things I’ve done as part of my Whole Self recovery has been to come home to my Body. It wasn’t until I starting moving back, little by little, into my truest home–this amazing...
The sun is shining, revealing years of smudged love on the warped single-pane window. I can hear the birds chatting away to one another as they collect squirming worms for the little ones back at the nest. I focus intently on this scene, on this image of pure...
When did your journey with Lyme begin? Like many Lyme Warriors my journey has been a long and winding road. I have had chronic illness issues since childhood, but the wildest ride of my adventure began in late 2012 when I started getting weird flu like symptoms, which...
I know a girl that constructed a permanent fort over her bed. When she was little, and for many years, she made tents in the living room, which also meant picnics, story-books and crafts for family and friends. In her magic-cave, she would point to her treasures and...
When did your journey with Lyme begin? My journey with Lyme disease probably began when I was first bit by ticks as a child, but I maintained a reasonably functional level of health up until 2012. Although, now looking back, I cannot really recall a time in my...
When did your journey with Lyme begin? My journey with Lyme began long before I ever knew I was even on a journey with Lyme. I think in some ways, my whole life was leading up to it. But my first symptoms appeared in around 2001. Was there a turning point in...
When did your journey with Lyme begin? I have dealt with symptoms for as long as I can remember, since I was in elementary school, but it wasn’t until I went off to college that I began collecting experiencing illness to the extent that it disrupted my life....
When did your journey with Lyme begin? It is believed that my journey with Lyme began when I was very young, though we are not for certain when, as none of the tick bites I contracted gave me a rash. However, in my late middle school years, random, rotating symptoms...
When did your journey with Lyme begin? I’m not entirely sure, but I think I first encountered the challenges of Lyme at 13 or 14 years old. What I do know is that by 15 I was living with chronic dis-ease. I became “medically retired” at age...
