My doctor (one of them) says my entire left side is jammed. It’s like shrink-wrapped plastic wrap, tight and brittle but it should be like one large, flowing, unified teardrop. It should have coherence and flexibility and it should breathe.
PlanetThrive.com’s newest guest blog post is by Julie Laffin, a Chicago-based performance artist who writes of her struggles with severe chemical sensitivity and advanced neurological lyme disease.
A holistic lifestyle is more than just eating organic foods and practicing yoga from time to time. It means paying attention to all aspects of your life: relationships, career, health and spirituality to be sure that you are living a life in balance. This might mean making some adjustments.
Indiana’s autism rate is now 1 in 113, above the national rate. Is it a coincidence that 266 million pounds of toxic chemicals were released into the state’s air, land and water in 2006 alone?
Dear Donna, Is there a link between autism and fungal infections in a mother during pregnancy?
Some of you may be wondering: what’s with the thrive! journal header imagery? It has a very hippie-esque back-to-the land aesthetic to it. Why did you choose to use this visual to represent your website? The brutal truth is this: it was not so much a choice,
Living with a chronic illness is not easy. Especially when your symptoms include severe depression and hopelessness. It can take work to turn the picture upside down and see the glass as half full. But I can tell you that the effort is well worth it. On my bad days, all I can see is that I am in my sixth year living in near isolation,
Blocked energy results in stagnation. Stagnation can contribute to disease. As part of my personal healing initiative, I promised myself this year to focus on “flow” and to open up all those blocked passages in body and mind. One result of this is the “primal scream” practice I began a few months ago after moving to a more desolate locale
Interview with Derval Dunford, creator of Sui meditation CD, about how she healed trauma and overcame the limitations of chemical sensitivity.
I propose here a novel hypothesis for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). ME/CFS may be a neurophysiological disorder focusing on the amygdala.