~ Continuous healing ~ someone said: "I hope healing finds you." response: Healing is here. It's a misconception that healing is ever over.
Continuous healing
Diagnosis and such…
This is how I deal with the mystery of my body these days... Part of learning to listen to the body has depended on my employing the witness position of my own experience. That's meant that not believing I know anything has been my modus operandi.
I like good food: the kitchen in recovery
Food as art form in the moment. My internal Kitchen Witch and muse at work. About I started sharing recipes when I started cooking “healing” food after becoming critically ill and disabled for years. I always have loved to cook so that part wasn’t new.
Transforming “Codependency”
CODEPENDENT? The term codependency as it is commonly used is problematic. We are a species that relies on and survives because of interdependence on one another. In a relationship with two people stripped away from the extended family codependency is absolutely normal and healthy. The issue is awareness. Are we aware of how we impact one another? Are we in some form of self-inquiry or contemplation that helps us become aware of patterns and dynamics from our traumatic childhoods?
A return from the dead
Why did I mostly stop writing? Because I was dealing with something I no longer knew how to talk about. Mostly because people really don't like reading about disability. All the able-bodied ableists who want to pretend that somehow disability must be the fault of the person suffering from it. Yeah. Lots of my readers too. The comments became unbearable and remain that way. I mostly keep them turned off. (2026: I've turned my comments back on these days ... the site is quieter now that I don't engage in social media much) I've written a few new pieces on my own idiosyncratic experience of TD. I thought I'd share with you Robert Whitaker's long and well-researched piece. )
TD update
TD Update: I've come to believe that serious microbiome issues (lyme disease) and tardyve diskinesia are essentially the same thing. Such is the experience in my body. I have lyme disease -- with five documented pathogens involved. To be clear I don't embrace the diagnosis because it's highly problematic. It is helpful in getting some of the care I need.
Buzzing words come
We're all selfish human beings in training to become the lovers we are as well. The surviving animal must be "selfish." As we come out of pure survival, the species depends on us becoming lover. Love madly, passionately, indiscriminately. Start with your own selfish self.
Narcissism (the plague of our times?)
did you know that daffodils are narcissus flowers? Narcissism is a coping strategy for when one has been wounded in profound ways. Anyone who makes it in this world has to find some sort of narcissism in order to heal. What gets called malignant narcissism is only one manifestation. Survival demands narcissism. ...
Sharing our truth vs. TMI
I share what many might consider TMI (too much information) with some frequency. I'm going to explain why. First of all even when I do that most of my life remains private, just like everybody else. I am not an open book no matter what you might think about what I share. It is not possible to know me based only on what I've shared. People are too complex and what is shared is always only a piece of things.
Gluten, dairy etc: Adding food back after elimination diets
Adding food back after elimination diets ~~ I was on elimination diets for a long time and needed to be in order to quiet down the chaos in my body. I now know more than when I started and hope that the general method of learning to listen is helpful to others since I know the details will be different for everyone. Recently I went through a stint of eating gluten and cheese. As I add many different foods I avoided for many years back into my diet, I jokingly call it "retoxification."
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