I have opened up a second blog. My new Cee’s Healing Journey blog is all about my journey of being an energy healer as well as my own healing from Chronic Lyme Disease.
So if you feel like stopping by I would love to have you join in my new adventure.
I will still be doing this blog as well. I just wanted to keep the two separate. ENJOY!!!
Hugs and blessings
Cee
I’m writing this blog because I read Work the Dream, How is Your Race Going blog? When I first read her blog I was wondering if I ever go beyond what I am capable of. Then I watched the video she had along with it and I just cried. As many of you know I have chronic lymes disease and it definitely has altered my life, energy and put limits on what I can do, physically. The past couple weeks I’ve really pushed the boundaries for me. And for the past few days, I’ve not been able to do a whole lot. Walking has been hard and I felt drained and exhausted. But At the same time I have been so happy and content.
Since I’m getting ready to take my Energy Medicine course, I’ve been talking with a couple of people to see if they’d be interested in me using them as “guinea pigs” as I learn. So I’ve been thinking about opening up a group specifically for that . And as most of you know I have been looking into the Red Hat Society, since lymes has kept me so isolated. I’ve been to a couple of functions with the Red Hat Society and I am having a blast. There is a group that meets fairly close to us and is just fun. They also meet at various times of the month so Chris has been able to join as well. So after summoning up the courage to meet new people and go new places, I was pretty exhausted. I even stayed up extremely late (my favorite time of the day) on Saturday night. It was the first time in ages. I so love staying up until 2-ish. It is so quiet and peaceful. So on Sunday morning I asked Chris, is it all worth it since I am so tied. Chris didn’t answer. It was okay, because I answered it a few minutes later. I realized I was happy and full of life. I told Chris, yes it is worth it.
This morning I am actually feeling energy boil back up inside me. So I’m incorporating all my new activities real well and I am looking forward to new adventures. Today I am off to get an energy medicine treatment and see my mentor. I’m so excited. I may need a few days off here and there, but it is all worth it!!!
Here is the video I talked about earlier in my blog that Work the Dream had posted. ENJOY!!
Hugs and blessings
Cee
Last night Chris and I watched one of our all time favorite shows NCIS. The show was all about the What Ifs in Leroy Gethro Gibbs (main character) life. See Chris’s blog NCIS is a Great Teacher for more information.
The show made me think about the big what if’s in my life. Here are a few examples of some obvious what ifs in my life.
When I was in high school in southern California, I wanted to be editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. I always have liked journalism. So what if I took my scholarship and got a journalism degree? Would I have found photography and become a photo journalist, perhaps travel the world and end up working for the National Geographic? Now that could be awesome. But then I could have been a small town newspaper reporter writing about events that happened last week and trying to make those events sound interesting.
When I was 20, I had a chance to work with the CIA (US Central Intelligence Agency) in their Los Angeles, California office. I had to have a Top Secret clearance before they would do the final interview in Washington DC. Those months I was connected to the CIA were the most interesting months of my life. I was a naive, wide-eyed 20 year and I loved every minute of it. The only reason I didn’t get the job, was someone didn’t file the right paperwork and the job went to someone else. Many years later, I met someone who was retired from the CIA and he said I would have been well taken care of by the Agency, but my life would have been so very different.
I got a gift from Chris this weekend. I simple 4-drawer plastic chest of drawers. When I first saw it in the store a week or so ago, I just fell in love with it.
Before I got hospitalized the first time when I had my 40-day coma (March 2001). It appeared as if Chris and I lived a charmed life. Just months before, we had bought our dream home on 35-acres. The house was in the eastern plains of Colorado about 40 miles east of Colorado Springs. For those of you who don’t know that part of Colorado is high desert. So our land was full of shrubs and sand. It once was home to Indians and their spirit was definitely present. Our house was situated so we looked toward Pikes Peak (14,000 ft) Mountain. The view and skies were phenomenal! We could see the storms, clouds and rain.
Chris sitting/meditating in the labyrinth she made while I was in the hospital. She always wanted a labyrinth. Before I got sick, we were starting to lay it out.
Yesterday, I was feeling pretty down. Frustrated with my weight. Because of Lymes, my body has been real good at retaining weight and water. Weight because the fat protects my organs of the toxicity of Lymes. It’s just the way my body functions. Whether I eat a lot or a little and I usually eat little amounts of food, I still carry tremendous amounts of weight. The only thing I’ve found works for me is taking massive antibiotics. And I’m not on a high enough dose for me to get the freedom to lose weight. Anyhow, so Chris took a day off work to be with me. since I was feeling so down. She’s been through thick and thin with me and my illness (see my Lyme page).
We ended up at Molalla River State Park here in Canby, Oregon,USA and here are a few photographs that I got from our little walk along the river’s edge.
After our walk, we got me signed up at the gym where Chris goes. A year ago I wasn’t healthy enough to go. Now since I can do water aerobics a couple times a week, we thought that I could get on the treadmill for a little while a day. So once I finish this blog I’ll be off to the gym.
Please see below for larger images of these photographs.
This is my entry for this week’s Photo Challenge.
Chris and I have learned that celebrating the “normal” holidays is not necessary for us. What celebrate life on a daily basis. We don’t wait for that specific day to celebrate events. Life is the event we need celebrate. And that is every day of the year. This practice came about since I nearly died over 10 years ago. Here is a picture of me in intensive care. At this point, the doctors really didn’t think I would live. To read more about my story see my Living with Lyme page.
And here I am six months later going back to see my favorite nurse from when I was in ICU.
Now this is cause for celebration.
Blessings and hugs
Cee
I’ve decided to go back to school and finish up getting certified to be an Energy Medicine Practitioner. I’ve taken the prerequisite courses from Donna Eden three years ago. I was actively practicing on me, Chris and several other people I worked with or knew. Everyone loved it when I’d fix back pain, headaches, burns, etc. Chris has post-polio syndrome and she loves it when I keep her hips balanced and help her with her breathing. I first learned of energy medicine through a book I found, “Quantum Touch” by Richard Gordon. When we still lived in Denver (Colorado), both Chris and I took some lessons from a practitioner of Quantum Touch. That is where I learned how to help people with back pain, joint injuries and bone realignment. It’s a non invasive type of healing. I help to intensify the electronic chemistry in a body to bring it back to balance. I kept research the topic of Energy Medicine and soon found Donna Eden who is the founder of modern day Energy Medicine.
Taken from the Energy Medicine with Donna Eden website:
What is Energy Medicine?
Energy Medicine is the science and the art of optimizing your energies to help your body and mind function at their best. Controlling your chemistry by managing your energies is the fast track for helping your body evolve and adapt to the challenges of the 21′s century.
• The oldest, safest, most organic, most accessible, and most affordable medicine there is.
• Potent techniques that allow you to participate more fully in your OWN healing by learning to clear, balance, and direct the natural energies in your body.
• An empowering system for self-help and a powerful tool for health care practitioners.
Three years ago, my job which I had adored for 4 years, changed drastically overnight. The company I worked for bought out another company and I was transferred to a whole other division which was absolutely horrible. Plus I just felt like I was getting sick again (organ failure) which no one at that time could explain. I loved doing my energy medicine and when my job turned horrible and stressful. So Chris and I made the decision I should quit work. Because of lack of finances I cancelled my studies.
Now I am feeling better having been diagnosed and am in treatment for Lyme Disease. Chris and I were talking and we decided to spend the money and put me back in school for certification. I’m getting real excited. So I’m going to be digging up my old DVDs and book and start practicing and learning again. This all came about because I get Donna Eden’s newsletter and she had an article Healing Lyme Disease.
Below is a link to Donna Eden’s Daily Energy Routine. I hope you take a minute to look at it.
I’ll keep you posted on my activities.
Blessings and hugs
Cee
Chris and I were talking a lot this weekend about our blogs and what we want out of them. One thing I really want to share is that life is about the little things, not the big events. The quiet moments, the unspectacular, taking time to look at the beauty around, sharing a smile with a stranger.
I have Chronic Lyme Disease, as most of you know, and that disease starts out small. A little tick bite. I may or may not have had a reaction when I initially got the bite. I’m not sure. I don’t really know when I got bitten. All I know it was between the ages 22 and 24. That little bite slowly over the years has dramatic changed the course of my life.
Chris has always said I know how to turn the bad into good. I’m definitely a “glass half full” type of person. I always do look for something good. I was like that as a child and young adult. I come from an abusive household. My father sexually abused me for years. When I was in the 7th grade, I told him to stop and told my mother. The abuse stopped at that point, but my relationship with my family was in some ways more of a nightmare. By the time I was 19 years old, I was speaking about incest in public. I was fortunate enough to hear other adults and some even in their sixties and seventies, voice their own stories of abuse for the first times in their life. This was back in the late 1970s and early 1980s when there weren’t as many avenues for adults, let alone children, to speak of incest. I’ve always been a strong advocate for people telling their stories and to feel their own victories of surviving.
I’m not sure where this writing is going today …. I just know it’s part of my story and who I am. Maybe it’s a sneak preview of who I am at the core of me. I’ve always been supportive, loving and encouraging for people. Since I got Lymes, everything in my life seems to have left me. Now I’m starting to feel healthy enough (mentally, physically and spiritually) to start seeing who I really am again. And being a mentor and supporter has always been a huge part of who I am. I am beginning to embrace that part of me again.
When I worked at Staples, my last full time job, on of my favorite things I would say to my co-workers was “I at least made you smile”. Even at some of my sickest times, I could still somehow make people smile and feel better.
The photo below will hopefully put a smile on your face…especially those in the northern hemisphere!
Hugs and blessings
Cee
This cold, both Chris and I have, is real a nasty one! We’ve both been coughing and sneezing all week. This thing is really effecting our lungs. I’ve been sleeping a lot. Chris has had to work. Fortunately she telecommutes and only has to walk to her home office. But it has really worn her out. Today, I’m finally starting to feel a little bit better. I’ve been awake all day (yippee). And I can actually walk from one room to the other room and not get out of breath or cough for five minutes afterwards. Anyhow, I’m sure you all know what a bad cold is like.
One thing I did think about yesterday, and don’t really know if I can explain it right.
Yesterday I felt really bad and thought I would die. Then I felt so guilty because I was complaining about a lousy nasty cold. Then I realized, that I was actually “healthy” enough to know what it feels like to be alive. That is a unique feeling for me. That made me really think about the last 25 years of my life. I’ve really had to fight just to stay alive. My life was all about survival, not living. Now that my Lyme Disease is under control, I’m actually starting to feel alive. I’m not really sure what I want out of my life yet, but I do know I want to live and feel alive. That was kind of a real cool feeling.
So I’m going post a couple of my favorite dahlias from Swan Island Dahlias here in Canby, Oregon. My home away from home in the late summer time. Dahlias are all time favorite flower. Hope you enjoy the show!
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Blessings
Cee
I know I promised to blog everyday! And this is going to be a real quick one. I’m extremely tried today! I’ve been super busy the last couple of weeks and it hit me yesterday and today! I do have to admit, that I’ve had a lot of fun acting somewhat like a “normal” person. I have been out of the house doing something nearly every day for two weeks. Some days it might have been a real quick trip to the store, but I still got out and did something. And I’ve kept up with Redbubble and my blog. That’s a first for me in many many years. Having been so ill with Lyme Disease I’ve been basically home bound for the past few years. Even when I was working, I’d make it to work and crash afterwards.
Chris and I were talking earlier today and we couldn’t remember how bad things were for me just a couple of years ago, before I was diagnosed with Lyme and finally started getting treatment. Ever since, I have been slowly getting better and regaining my strength and energy. Today things just caught up with me and I’m feeling blah and am a little bit down. So obviously I didn’t take any new photos today nor have I really tried to find something interesting. I will give you a sneak preview of where we are going tomorrow though. We are going to Bauman’s Farm and Garden. We were there yesterday and I got a couple of photos. There were tons of people there because they have a pumpkin patch, harvest, hay castles for kids. Chris has off tomorrow and we decided to go back when it isn’t so full and I can get some better pictures.
So here is your sneak peak for tomorrow. These pumpkins (gourds) are huge. If you notice way up on the top right of the photo there is two red hibiscus flowers. those flowers are 8 to 10 inches in diameter. Hope you enjoy!
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