“The Queen of Green” Debra Lynn Dadd shares her top suggestions for turning your health around onto a path of recovery from chemical sensitivities and food intolerances.
The Seven Essentials of Recovery
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Surviving the Dreaded H1N1 Swine Flu
Dr. Randy Baker of the Pacific Center for Integral Health in Soquel, California shares his approach for preventing and treating both the seaonal flu and the dreaded Swine Flu (H1N1) this winter.
To the Girls Down the Hall: Ave et Avete
by Susan M. Silver | A grown woman grapples with the rejection from young neighbors after developing environmental illness.
Typical Symptoms of Tick-borne Infections
Steven J. Harris, M.D., an LLMD practicing in California, summarizes the typical symptoms of different tick-borne infections commonly seen with Lyme disease.
Toxic Terror
When you walk into my house, chemicals waft from your clothes. I know right away that the laundry detergent you use is toxic (most are) and that if I am around you for long I will get a headache. Should I tell you?
The next HIV? ME/CFS and AIDS activists unite
by Peggy Munson | Hi Friends & fellow revolutionaries, As some of you may know, the biggest news to hit the ME/CFS community — ever — just dropped a couple of days ago on October 9, 2009.
From Chronic Fatigue to Lyme: Medically Unexplained No More
by Pamela Weintraub | Over the past year, forces at the highest reaches of medicine have made ever stronger efforts to burden the sick, diseased, and infected with psychiatric labels, consigning them to often mind-numbing psych meds and untreated infection
What’s helping you rise?
I just discovered a wonderful website for a wonderful reading/study group: healthpursuitsgroup.com. They are a unique health book club for people suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia (FMS), multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), and related conditions.
There Comes A Time
I have never been very good at surrendering. I have been the fighter—the hold on to the side of the cliff, fight for your life, never give up and never go down with the ship kind of soul. It was exhausting work.
Recommit. Again and again and again.
I practice recommitment on a monthly, weekly, daily—even moment-to-moment—basis. I also practice forgiveness. I forgive myself for not following through on previous commitments, goals, and self-promises. I let go of recriminations, self-flagellations, self-denigrations and I move on.
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