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New Diagnosis: Where to Turn
I’m still pretty scared. I want my body to be ok. What do you do when this happens? What do any of us do? I’m hurting and it’s freaking me out. Why is my body doing this and even if I know why, still why? Physiological functions do not count as reasons. Here’s what I do… I take the action steps I need to take and carry on, trusting, loving, moving. I learn back into my practice Q: Your life’s in free fall, who you gonna call? A: You. It is within you, all you need. Really, so much of our work here is helping you to discover and recover…
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When You are Waiting for News
I know we want lovely long lives, and isn’t it funny how time can stretch? Although often only the difficult bits seem to be the ones that go on and on. The books were right, my wedding day was a bright sky rocket flash, and seemed far less than 24 hours, but waiting for blood test results – those two weeks stretch out into agonising millennia more times than I care to count. Waiting; be it for test results, surgery, to find out if a diagnosis is something serious, waiting at all can feel more agonising than the problem itself. If there is a feeling of dread, and wanting to…
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Diagnosis – At the Doctor’s Office
How to Handle the Doctor’s Appointment They aren’t nice, are they? Doctor’s waiting rooms, I mean. You’re sitting there waiting to be called, surrounded by posters and leaflets for various diseases (What, yellow fever? Do I have that? Huh, well I suppose that tooth ache could be cancer – argh!). Flanked by people hacking and coughing, or staring at you as they aren’t interested in out of date magazines. (Or perhaps that’s just me. But if I don’t like people staring I can choose to dress down or minimise myself or tell them to stop. But I like red shoes, and wearing fabric roses in my hair and heels that,…
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Diagnosis – A How-To of How To Get One
Today we are looking at the common challenges we face in getting diagnosed when we are dealing with an invisible or non-acute illness. In part one we looked at who we reach out to for support upon a new diagnosis. Read about coping with a recent diagnosis here. Do I need this? If you have a broken leg, that will probably be pretty easy to diagnose and this information probably won’t apply to you. However if you have a broken leg because you fell over due to the unexplained dizziness then read on because this may help you and your doctor get to the bottom of that dizziness. Painting a…
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Stop Striving: Lessons From the Qi Gong Studio
I want to be good. And when I do things I want to do them well. If this is news to you then perhaps we haven’t been introduced. Hello, I’m Grace and I am fabulously, incorrigibly type A. In my attempts to be very very good I try very hard. At nearly everything. I turn up to meetings as the picture of a earnest, 6th form prefect, with my prep in my satchel. You think I’m joking but I’m not. And I’m ok with the earnest, enthusiastic aspect of myself. But there’s a problem. I’m tired of trying and I’m ready for a change. I was in qi gong class recently…
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