Life Update:April 2022 Edition

Finally learned how to eat healthily and get fit

I have to admit… I and food have not always had the best relationship. When I finally told the dr just how bad food dominated my life, I was able to talk with a therapist and slowly get better. For the first time in a long time, I feel as if I have a handle on my food situation. Then when I was diagnosed with Psoriatic Arthritis, the dr sat down with me for an hour and told me exactly what I needed to do to have a decent chance of not ending up in a wheelchair. I refused to eat meat, so I became a gluten-free vegan, and the cravings for the first few months were intense. I never knew that sugar and gluten were that hard on one’s body. It took a few months to get my eating under control; now that it is 95 percent under control and the numbers on the scale started going DOWN, I feel as if I can handle this whole new lifestyle.

Switched to non-toxic products

Let me clarify; I switched everything over to Young Living. I had no idea that would be such a life-changing thing when I bought my first kit to help a friend. Here I am three years later, and I am HOOKED. I can clean AND still breathe at the same time. My lungs are damaged from me smoking a pack of cigs a day for 22 years, so all of the cleaning stuff you find at Wal-marts always felt like my lungs were on fire.

When I first bought this cleaner, I had some serious doubts. I was proven wrong, and now it is all I use to clean around the house. The lavender soap soothes the Psoriasis on my skin. Trust me, I have tried EVERYTHING else, but nothing works as well as that soap. Now Young Living is my go-to for anything I may need or want.

A  season of Purging.

I remember reading Danelle Laporte and when she explained that after you expand…you contract. I find myself agreeing with this statement over and over. I deleted all of the subscriptions to blogs because that is not where I am now, and I don’t want to be held back. I even started deleting people that I used to be friends with, and I honestly don’t want to give all of that a try just for them to decide to disappear again…and again. O know I may be burning bridges..even bridges that I may one day need, but I am past the point. Tou either is my friend or not. As for burning bridges, I stand by this quote.

It’s sad how long it took me to weed out the fake friends, but I am soooo happy that I did. My mental health has never been better.

Learning about my spirituality

I was born and raised in a conservative Christain family, but I never felt as I felt 100 percent accepted, and I have tried repeatedly at different churches but nope. Then I stumbled on a spirituality book, aka new age stuff, and finally, I felt as if I had found myself and my place in this universe… I read alll the books that people such as Sanieele Laporte write along with Pema Chodron, among many others. I felt as if I had rediscovered a part of my soul each time. Then I was at a standstill for a while. Then, one day, I started seeing more people turn to new age things, and in the past two years, I have dug DEEP.

To give you an idea of how deep I have gone…I managed to get unblocked about my junk food habit, which held me back in so many ways. I am doing weight watchers again, and it feels a LOT easier this time. Don’t get me wrong, it is still challenging, but now o can order a salad without croutons or anything else on it.. take it home, put some extra firm Tofu on it and put a lite dressing, and voila, a lunch that fits my personal points budget!

Overall I am in a MUCH better place than I was the last few years. Getting to this point has NOT been easy, but finally, I can say

I have arrived!