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While I was sick, I went to several different doctors, and when I got through the end of that and I was doing worse than I was before I went to see them, I began to really despair and because I was dealing with a lot of food sensitivities, I was kinda on high alert all of the time trying to avoid exposures. And then as I began to react to chemicals, trying to avoid those, and it created this constant unrest inside and I lost, slowly lost the ability to feel very happy or excited, even about good situations. At the peak of things, I was not really going anywhere that I didn’t absolutely have to go. My husband would run errands or pick up gifts for people. I didn’t go into any building or into any place that I did not need to, and began dropping my kids off at the front door of the school instead of walking them to their classroom.
As most the parents at that school were doing. I avoided any social gatherings. I didn’t want to go any place where there were people. I had to stop going to church. If I had to go into a doctor’s office, I would wear a mask and, but I just said no to every single thing that I possibly could. And when I had to go someplace, then I would come home immediately and strip down and shower and wash my hair once or twice or whatnot. I didn’t feel like I had a good enough handle on what food or what food contaminants were making me sick. And so in order to just avoid all of that, I ate at home. I cooked only food that I prepared. I didn’t even always want my husband to prepare my food eventually, because I wasn’t getting all the way better.
I find some relief from these things, but still seemed like I wasn’t getting to the bottom of it. And so ultimately wanted to know why and what was happening and what foods I could tolerate ’cause it seemed somewhat inconsistent at times. And so I spoke with my husband and we ultimately decided to try to grow our own food because then we could know what happened to it from the, the farm all the way to the table, and then we could hopefully try and one food and another food and figure out which ones I was really tolerating or not. So we bought property and we began to farm it, and the property didn’t have a house, so we were farming it, you know, from across town, driving back and forth and growing our food while we built a house and went through that process. And then eventually moved there.
But we were growing grain, growing potatoes. The only thing we were buying was meat and olive oil and salt, all, you know, carefully sourced and then growing everything else and trying to add things back in and figure out, you know, was this the root and would this make me healthy? And it took a lot of time and a lot of effort and there were some really neat things along the way in that process. But it, it was kind of a dead end because at the end of the day, once we were living there and growing it all and eating exclusively that food, I was still not, well. I was doing better, but I was not well. So the first piece was the pain and headaches. And in that process I went to my general practitioner who referred me to a neurologis that wasn’t helping a whole lot.
So I went to a physical therapist and she worked with a chiropractor. So I worked with both of them for several years and then when I really wanted to work on the food pieces, I went back to my doctor. He had me see a nutritionist and then I started looking at some alternatives because the mainstream wasn’t really answering my questions. And so I saw a functional medicine practitioner and she did a whole bunch of, you know, the gut checking and testing and healing protocols. I saw a a do and he worked some on my body and also took my kids to several doctors as we were trying to figure out their digestive issues. So we worked with their pediatrician and the local allergist, and we went up to the big city and saw two different pediatric gastroenterologists. And I also took my older daughter to the functional medicine doctor.
And at the end of all of that, we were in worse shape than we were when we started . After seeing all of those doctors and setting ourselves up to farm and getting all the equipment and the tractor and the storage capacity, I would say we probably spent about a hundred thousand dollars on doctors and and farm support. After doing some research and reading and digging, I ended up ordering the DVDs. And just a month later, after seeing some changes and being so excited about getting well, it went to the in-person program. It’s great that I started with the DVDs. I think I would’ve found it quite challenging to travel to come to the program first. So it was great to start there. And I saw some shifts inpain and chemical sensitivity within the first three weeks that supported my ability to travel and to pump gas and to be on the highway.
And to be in a place away from home pain was one of the first things that shifted for me. When I began the program, just within the first week of beginning to retrain my brain, I saw decreases in the levels of pain. And within just a couple of months, I was able to snuggle my daughters and welcome them onto my lap, which was the most precious thing. It was worth it if nothing else changed that was worth it. They didn’t understand why I couldn’t hold them. And when I was able to do that, it was just a huge breakthrough. And, and so healing on many levels. Yeah. And I just remember that that first day when I invited my youngest daughter who was five at the time, to come climb in my lap and she just clung onto me and I held her and had tears streaming down my face.
I was getting well and I, I could be a mom to them in all senses. When I first began the program, I was coming to the program hoping that it would help with chemical sensitivity and with the chronic pain and headaches. And I had no idea that it could touch the food that wasn’t even on my radar. So, when I came to the seminar, there were some pieces of that that began to come together as I saw testimonials and heard about people who had recovered from, from food sensitivities and food allergies, which I had some that sort of fell into both categories and began to wonder if this could be me. ’cause it was easy at first to say, yeah, that could, that could happen to other people, but my situation’s different. So then after I went to the in-person program, things just continued to move and shift in the right direction.
And it gave me extra motivation and also extra layers of belief because I was very skeptical about how much this could help me, especially in the food department. When it came to food, I had several different categories of reactions. I had your typical intolerances, which were like heartburn, upset, stomach, trouble digesting. Sometimes I would, you know, run to the bathroom several times and, you know, gas, bloating, that sort of thing. I would also have skin rashes and headaches. And then I also had a category of food that mimicked anaphylactic reactions where I would have throat swelling and my tongue would itch and my esophagus would contract and I would need to take Benadryl, and then I had a couple of foods that would just give me a migraine the next day, you know, no other response besides that. And so with each category of food, I was able to figure out how to use the tools of the program to change my body’s response over time.
And I am now healed and cured of all, all of those categories of, of food reactions and responses. Since going through the program, I have seen a 180 turnaround in my life. I am no longer restricted in any way. I don’t react to any chemicals. I can go where I want. I don’t have chronic pain in my body. I don’t have headaches, I don’t have migraines and I can eat anything, anything on my list. Nothing is off anymore. We can travel. We have taken a couple of airplane trips and stayed in hotels, eaten in restaurants, and just done so many things that I didn’t even think were possible anymore. And one of the things that I’m going to do really soon, that I’m so excited about is water skiing. Having a healthy, strong body, I’m not even worried about it.
Food sensitivities for my daughters began really right at birth. And I began early on to see rashes and digestive difficulties and began to try to figure out what was going on with them. And, as I went through the program and worked on the food for myself, I was able to see changes in them right along with me. In fact, they were quicker than I was to stop seeing symptoms and to be able to eat more and more things. And they propelled me along and their, and their bravery and their recovery. And it was wonderful to see them joyfully eating all these foods that we never knew that we could eat. And being able to go to restaurants and eat in people’s homes. I’m so excited to see them fully recovered as well. Not only did my life take a complete 180 turn, but the way that I approached and thought about illness had to turn around completely as well.
And I was coming from a place of trying to research, understand what was wrong, read, connect with other people who had the same problems that I did to figure out what had worked for them. And I was chasing symptoms and trying to figure out how to stop and minimize and reverse those. I had to approach it from a place of, I have a brain injury and the circuits in my brain and the fight or flight center in my brain are not operating properly, and what can I do to correct that instead of chasing the symptoms? And that was the answer. And, and it changed everything. Awesome.
