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Dandelion Discotheque (d'un lit)
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“Here is a truth you often don’t hear: traumatized women have the potential to become the most powerful people in this world.
The most ignorant members of society call this type of woman “damaged.” But she is the most powerful type of woman there is
What they forget is that survivors have...
Because….music.
Moon river, wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style some day
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're goin', I'm goin' your way
Two drifters, off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbow's end
Waitin' 'round the bend
My...
Trigger warning. Medical ptsd triggers.
Not a pretty entry.
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I have worked so hard for years to reach today. YEARS. And years and years…. And years.
I need assistance and I know this. I’ve been rejected left and right from medical community. In SO many ways. Despite mostly...
Quick request ME/CFS friends….
Sharing in support of this brave woman that she hopefully gets the help she needs and deserves. How horrifying in 2023 you have to beg for your life publicly in hopes the hospital makes the right choice when you acquire certain illnesses that are blacklisted...
Monday morning music therapy✨🌹
“Told you we ain't dead yet
We been livin'
through your internet
You don't have to believe
everything you think
We've been programmed
wake up,
we miss you
They call you indigo,
we call you Africa
Go get baptized
in the ocean
of the people
Say reboot...
Chronic Infection: Extension-A Closer Look (Helpers for Epstein Barr Virus and Other Co-Infections))
So many herbs are multi beneficial in so many ways....that sometimes its hard to remember why society remains mostly focused on a few heroes finding a pharmaceutical that rarely is as extensively beneficial as the herb. We have millions of heroes around us at all times. They mostly don't require...
And to close off this series that i might as well of named Stephen Buhner's brief overview :lol: we will talk about a BRIEF amount of herbs possible to assist with viral and bacterial infections and cytokines.
I decided to do a brief overview because i have multiple bedridden friends that...
I would like to share a passage in Buhner's book on cytokines today...what they are and how they work.
"Cytokines are small cell signaling molecules released by cells that are damaged, cells of the immune system and the glial cells of the nervous system that are important in intercellular...
A energetic palette cleanser for my feed
💙🦋
Cerulean
Blue moon
In the sea
Waiting
But will you
dance with me
Dancing waves
Encompassing millennia
Beyond these crests
That break
There is a flow
That commands…
Commends
Magnetizes
Divests
Unrests
To create
Coming apart
To fALL...
It’s a brave new world….
A Friday night interruption from the chronic infections series.
I will open with another passage of Stephen Buhner's book on Lyme and co-infections (bartonella, Epstein Barr virus, coxackie, babesia etc) ....
"Lyme and its co-infections, instead of being thought of as they commonly are, should more properly be understood to be a closely cooperating group of...
My results arrived yesterday. Most of what i have is not surprising. Through the years i've had multiple infections such as shingles at 14, EBV (twice), CDC positive lyme and the list goes on...high Strep counts in my urogenital system yet multiple doctors always noted it was fine. :) Totally...
I have decided to do a three? part blog series on the potential role latent and invisible infections play in this realm of people that visit phoenix rising. Too many labels to list here. I had a mobile lab out this week to get a (expensive) test to see what microbes are left in me. No test is...
Sometimes you can’t help but ponder how long things have been broken. This didn’t just come about. We live in such a topsy turvy world where we think we are progressive and quite forward…. Yet so many people don’t have money to eat or afford medical care or house… or even a blouse.
My father...
My bare feet pushed my travel wheelchair along the hallway. Then I turned right and was face to face with our screen door. And I pushed right up next to it. Holding my head up but my neuro/ vision are very iffy. One wrong move of the eyes or head and I can swiftly go into an episode or small...
“I thought perhaps she was crazy, but she was only highly intuitive.” ~ Carl Jung
Art: ‘I was raised by the forest’ kat Philbin
“Life isn’t always onward and upward.
Sometimes you evolve, sometimes you devolve. Sometimes you get the life sucked out of you, and other times you breathe life back in.
There are times of shutting down and…opening up.
There are times the walls go up … times they come right back down...
Mood:
Trigger warning*********
Again****** trigger warning
Reader discretion advised.
I feel like I’ve made so many tiny leaps and bounds forward past few years. Slowly. Nothing huge… but making my existence more comfortable after non stop torture for so long. And that’s not far from...
Well, it seems that perhaps voicing myself here at times....was more cathartic than i fully realized.
Its certainly healing to use your voice at times and especially when you live in a world where few want to be bothered with your voice.
Yes, people can be jerks.
On the internet is no...
I returned for solstice…
To share a healing dance
And rhythm
To thank the sun
… to live in the light
✨☀️✨
Thank you to each of you for shining your inner light with the world in your own ways 🦋 stay golden star shines 💛
Healing dance
Solar rhythm in my heart today 💛✨
"The edge of...