Change Your MInd

by | Apr 23, 2014 | Auto-immune, Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

  Reading “Change Your Mind Heal Your Body” by Anna Parkinson was like reading my own journey through my own illness. No I don’t have a tumor in my brain. What I do have is an inflammation disease the closes off my throat and with having about 40 surgeries in the...

Happy Monday!

by | Apr 21, 2014 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

  Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend. Me, I had a quiet one. I did end up cooking some yummy new dishes and I will be sharing my recipes and what I did with you sometime this week, so stay tuned. My progress this week went okay. Yes, I went...

Tomatoes and Parsley

by | Apr 3, 2014 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

Good day! Time for an update and I am feeling better about things. Physical therapy is amazing. I love it this time around. I don’t know if it is because I am changing my perspective or if I am just ready now and I wasn’t ready before. My PT therapist is amazing. I...

Stretching

by | Apr 1, 2014 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

  Physical therapy wasn’t so bad. It went better than I expected. The atmosphere was not a bunch of elderly men and women on oxygen trying to breathe while moving their bodies. It was a bunch of men and women varying in age doing core, balance, and strength...

Vibrant Foods

by | Feb 13, 2014 | Auto-immune, Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

    If you have been reading my blog you know that I love reading cookbooks. I get a lot of great ideas from them. Reading “Vibrant Foods” is no exception. I enjoyed looking at the amazing photography and even reading the recipes. I love the fact that it is...

Weekly

by | Feb 11, 2014 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey, Weight

It is hard to believe it is the second week in February and I feel like I have accomplished a lot this month. First, I roller skated, then I went and played out in the snow, and then this weekend I walked to the store which is probably about a block from my...

Listening To My Body

by | Feb 8, 2014 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

    Are you staying warm? This weekend it is snowing where I live in Vancouver Washington which is right across the river from Portland Oregon. We don’t usually get a lot of snow, but when we do it is a lot. I am not a big fan of the snow. I hate it, but I...

Month By Month

by | Jan 31, 2014 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

Every Great and deep difficulty bears itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.  Niels Bohr   Wow, the first month in 2014 went by fast, didn’t it? In January, I have done a few things to change my circumstances. One, I let...

A New Direction!

by | Jan 28, 2014 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

Personal resilience makes room for big shifts in our lives, and is our greatest ally in our time of extremes. Greg Braden     This Greg Braden quote illustrates a big shift in my life and the resilience that I am using in order to make better choices on my...

Miracles Now

by | Jan 27, 2014 | Auto-immune, Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

    Miracles Now by Gabrielle Bernstein is a collection of helpful tools from how to get quality and relaxing sleep, to distressing and to finding your value and still not be ego driven about things. I needed to be reminded about what my spiritual practice...

Brassica

by | Jan 23, 2014 | Auto-immune, Books/Music, The Magnificent Journey

    Brassica is a class of super food vegetables of Broccoli, Cauliflower, Cabbage, Kale, and Brussel Sprouts and many other vegetables. I was first told about the Brassica vegetables or otherwise known as Crucifix vegetables when I saw my nutritionist at...

Paleo Week One

by | Jan 23, 2014 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey, Weight

Yesterday evening when I went to the lobby to use the Internet and to check my email I received an offer from Lift an application to help you make small changes on your journey to health with the Paleo eating plan and I decided to join. I have been dabbling in Paleo...

Faith

by | Jan 22, 2014 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

  I have to admit to the world that the last week or so I have not felt like being my positive self anymore. I have a lot of hard decisions to make about where I want my life to go. An old friend will be making an appearance in my life. I am excited about this,...

Progress, I feel good.

by | Jan 12, 2014 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

  I feel good. I feel good that I got to get rid of 8 bottles of Imuran (Azathioprine) which I had been taking for my WG/GPA and RA. Last Monday my Rheumatologist took me off of this medication because one, the Rituximab infusion treatment I have been getting is...

Sick, Bleh!

by | Jan 8, 2014 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

I am sick with a cold which means I must change my trach a lot and keep my humidifer running just to thin out the mucus so it doesn’t get clogged. It is a pain, but a part of caring for myself. In the mean time I am stepping back and caring for myself with a lot...

Uric Acid, Yuck!

by | Jan 7, 2014 | Auto-immune, The Magnificent Journey

Isaiah 40:30-31 Even youths shall faint and be weary and selected young men shall feebly stumble and fall exhausted. But those who wait for the Lord who expect look for, and hope in Him shall change and renew their strength and power; they shall lift their wings and...

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