My Quest To Write & Heal

I thought today might be a good day to write a bit about the book I've been working on writing.

My quest to natural healthcare really began after the birth of my first daughter almost 5 years ago now.  It was such a traumatic experience for me that I began to fear the medical community and hospitals in a lot of ways but especially when it had to do with birth.  This led me to search for a home birth for our second child and I wanted exactly the opposite experience so I wanted to find someone as hippie as possible or maybe just someone who had extensive knowledge in herbs, but I also really wanted to find a midwife that could kinda be a kindred spirit for me to lean on while feeling like a grandmother type figure to my kids in the future.  The woman I found was awesome.  She had that knowledge that I yearned for about herbs and natural care.  She also had access to many medical things so that if they were needed they were available.  I never felt like the whole grandma figure was there but that can be rare so not too big of an issue.  Anyway, she introduced me to quite a few new ideas in regards to diet and healthcare along with what is now a deep love for the use of essential oils.  That birth was 100 times better though not that perfect birth I dreamed of (mostly cause I got scared of tearing at the end and when you get scared your body causes pain by working against the birth process).  I started really heavily doing more research into what I was interested in that she taught me as well as some other things in regard to natural health after that and started my book along with creating my own selection of healthy recipes and then I became pregnant again.  This time I felt like i needed to not only do it naturally but go a step further to try for that perfect birth.  I took every birth class available through my insurance to prepare myself for this coming child.  It was amazing!  I used a lot of hypno-birth techniques along with belly dance and movement techniques; and the outcome was a birth with no complications, only an hour and a half of active labor, and a beautiful pain free birth.  I believe everyone has the ability to have just as great of an experience.  Because of how much I love it, I actually taught a program I am calling Hypno-Labor to a couple over the course of a few weeks and thy used it to prepare for their birth.  I want to turn what I taught into a more comprehensive course for others that becomes more of "Christ Centered Hypno-Birth."

Though my births were what brought me to my quest they are not all that my natural health quest has been about.  While pregnant with my second child I had some anonymous blood tests done to determine if I had an autoimmune disorder called Lupus.  Every test that was done came back positive in determining that I did indeed have an autoimmune disease.  I only did 3 of the 5 tests and the last two would be what could prove which autoimmune disease it was, but because of my symptoms it was pretty obvious which one.  I took these anonymously because I didn't want them on my medical records and affect my insurance in the future.  I also full heartedly believe that in the ability to health through natural means from "incurable" ailments.  I plan on fully healing my body through natural means along with some heavenly help.  :)  The search for ways to cure and heal myself and anything that has come up in the meantime with my family is what really made this into a quest for myself and now into the workings of a book.