Are You In The Storm Or Are You Watching It?

Let's be honest .... most like to think they are in control of their lives. For the most part, that may be true. However, the reality is that a large portion of your "life" is uncontrollable .... the elements, genetics, unforeseen circumstances .... are not controllable. What you do .... how you react ..... to the "uncontrollable" will determine how "life" unfolds for you .... how resilient you will be.

Knowing this fact .... having this "awareness" .... could be the difference in being "in the storm" swept and blown away by the wind and rain .... versus "watching the storm" pass by while sitting next to a warm and cozy fire.

Are you in the storm or watching it?

The best way to stay out of the storm is to do a "daily checkin". Why is this important?

helps to avoid the "storm's" effects
allows you to be grounded and self-aware
helps you to evaluate
- what is causing unsettling and unfomfortable feelings?
- what is going right in your life right now?
- think about the last 7 days:
  - have you felt overwhelmed?
  - have you enjoyed any great meals?
  - have you moved your body enough?
  - are you getting enough rest?
  - have you performed any acts of service recently?
  - what has made you smile lately?

Self-assessment questions like these can help you develop a self-care plan of awareness to your specific needs. Each of you is unique which means your plan may not be the same as mine or your friend, Suzi. The important thing is to develop a plan. Not only is it critical to your well-being, it will also help you navigate through life's events in a more constructive way.

Don't allow the storms of life to paralyze you. Even though a self-care plan is a personal matter, having some assistance .... a GPS as it were .... to help guide you is always beneficial. This GPS is one way that really takes the guesswork out of your next step.

People, including doctors, thought we were crazy...all in our heads.  After all, how could normal, every day household and personal product smells affect your ability to function, to cause you to be incoherent and feel shaky inside, to have an emotional break-down?  Inside we were dying.  Outside we appeared normal. 

Fragrances were, and are, part of every day, normal life.....candles, laundry, cleaning, perfumes.  Everyone and their neighbor used them.  For us, we either had to isolate ourselves or suffer the following day or two with a toxic hangover.  Isolation is never a good option, especially with children.  During the summer it was impossible to go outside without inhaling someone's laundry or the recent lawn product application.  My husband was so bad one summer that he could eat constantly and, yet, still lose weight.  Every month I would get a sinus infection and/or chest congestion. 

Then came the food sensitivities and autoimmune disorders.  How could food cause my ears to be red and hot, my cheeks to flush, and cause my entire body to break out multiple times in a horrendous, red, itchy, inflamed rash only to burn when scratched and ooze yellow, sticky fluid?  Imagine, every day having gauze pads over the majority of your body under your clothes and hoping the rash doesn't drain so much that it soaks through your clothes.  It would take months to disappear.  People said "just get a cortisone/steroid shot" for relief.  They could not understand why that was not my choice. 

By discovering and eliminating my many triggers, finding a new, non-toxic way to support my immune system, my liver, and my thyroid, I have not had a major skin breakout for about 3 yrs and have been able to manage my autoimmune disorders without the use of standard medication. 

I finally found a way to acquire "Freedom from Toxins", "Freedom to Achieve Wellness", and "Freedom to Choose". 

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