Getting healthy: moving towards balance

2026 update: I did test positive for lyme and several co-infections by the end of 2020 I now have a section dedicated to what I’ve been learning about that: Lyme disease / systemic infections

I had multiple infections that responded to Lyme treatment long before I tested positive.

I hadn’t tested positive for Lyme and gave up on doctors after that.

(testing is really inaccurate but it was the lab Igenex that picked up several infections. I’ve remained skeptical of MDs, even those who treat Lyme, because they don’t understand long term chronic lyme in any case. The psych drugs also made if far worse and the fact is they don’t want to deal with folks who are as complex as my situation is. It remains a challenge to get care at all)

Healing (for me) didn’t mean killing off all micro-organisms indiscriminately. It meant bringing balance by moving out excess of the ones making me sick and building up with other more expansive ones.

These little guys have consciousness. They’e part of us and work together with us. Imbalances is what make us sick. Healthy people have the same bugs in different proportions.

Getting healthy means learning to bring it all to balance. I call it internal eco-system management. This goes along with many other aspects of the body for me since my entire autonomic nervous system got blown out. It was an exceedingly complex process after being bedridden and atrophied for some years.

more on topic:

updated: more Somatic imperative: collection

Lyme disease / systemic infections I’ve associated all of that with the Tardive Dyskinesia as well (both those links are collections)

• A few of my favorite books about herbs…
• Detox, withdrawal from psych meds and chronic systemic infections (chronic illness tends to be associated with them)
• Food and diet for profound healing
• Detox…the nitty gritty
• The somatic imperative and meditation
• Our bodies are mirrors of our minds and psyches, our culture and our communities
• Trauma, Fixation and Reactivity – (Somatic Experience)

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