Lupus

Natural Remedies for Extraordinary Health and Self-Healing

Wise Betty

• Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781683501985
• eBook ISBN: 9781642793949
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Alternative & Complementary Medicine

Reach full remission by using your food as medicine—along with science-backed natural nutrients and powerful healing remedies and supplements.
 
Being diagnosed with Lupus can be terrifying, but there is hope. If you just do what the doctors say, you are told you will get better. But what happens when you don't get better? What happens when your symptoms get worse?
 
In Lupus: Natural Remedies for Extraordinary Health and Self-Healing you will learn how to create a support system that'll help you ignite your body's own self-healing energies so your Lupus symptoms stop getting in the way of your life. Inside you will learn:
 

• Why Lupus is called, "the disease of a thousand faces"
• Why most people with Lupus never heal their symptoms and how you can be different
• What science and evidence-based medicine tell us the most successful Lupus patients do
• Why traditional medicines and treatments may be exacerbating your symptoms and how to tell what alternatives might be right for you
• How you can find the benefits of your illness (Hint: Your disease is sending you messages you can tap into)
• What it takes to release your auto-immune disease symptoms once and for all.
• And so much more.

What if I told you that your journey into your better self has just begun? Learn the best natural practices from those who have traveled the road ahead of you and step into a stronger, healthier, happier, more youthful and pain-free you.

PART ONE:

Change Your Mind Change Your Story

“Often the soul always knows what to do to heal itself, the challenge is how to silence the mind…”

~Caroline Myss

CHAPTER 1

Lupus: My “Me Now” Journey

I could sit here and start this book with my first diagnosis and all the meds I’ve tried and taken; I can talk about all the negative feedback I’ve experienced; and I can also talk about not being understood or believed; or about the million times I’ve been misdiagnosed and dismissed as an attention getting hypochondriac; and so on and so forth, but that’s not where my heart wants to go with this. Yes, it’s important to touch upon these moments for clarity sake and as a road-map so you can see how I got from point A to point B, however that’s not how I’m going to approach this. What I will be doing instead is mostly sprinkling these moments throughout the book as it relates to the topic at hand. What I want to do with this chapter instead is have you get to know the real me and how my brain works. By getting to know me this way, you’ll understand how and why I was able to find that loophole to healing myself (a loophole that can help guide you into healing yourself from this horrible epidemic as well), and I’ll also discuss how I partnered with the Law of Attraction (LOA), especially during my darkest moments when I just needed someone to take the wheel for a bit.

When I look back at my years with Lupus, what I see is a dis-ease that is more of a blessing than a curse. Now, for those of you reading this who are in the midst of an excruciating episode, just stay with me because I know what you’re thinking, “What in the name of autoimmune diseases is she talking about?” Well, what I realized during every mentally and physically challenging episode, every self-esteem destroying flare up, straight through every moment of debilitating sadness and suicidal thoughts, that there was always a call to action. In those moments, there was a voice, a presence with me that held my hand tightly as I dangled in that dark place, telling me, “I got you, and when you’re ready, we’ll climb the next mountain together.” Now, because you’re living with an autoimmune disease, the only call to action you’re likely to experience is wanting to disappear from the world into a dark room and go straight to bed, so let me explain what I mean by a call to action.

I have always been what I like to call a “social loner.” Whether it’s surfing videos and binge-watching show episodes, grabbing a glass of wine and reading a good book while cuddling with my children with paws, or even blasting my music in my car and singing at the top of my lungs (I love doing this with my daughter, she gets me), I love my own company enough to want it 95 percent of the time. I don’t have a problem being alone. I like not feeling like I’m responsible for everyone’s good-time, or worse, their entertainment. Plus, if I’m experiencing a moment where I can feel my body shutting down and need to rest, I don’t have to feel guilty about it. I know it isn’t anyone’s fault that I feel this way and it certainly isn’t my responsibility to entertain anyone, but that’s the care giver in me, who always takes me away from my “Me Now” warrior mindset. Perhaps you feel what I’m saying because you prefer spending time by yourself as well.

So how can being a social loner help you on your self-healing journey? Because it’s in these moments of solitude that you can hear that inner voice telling you, you can do this; you can heal this; you can keep going. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I looked forward to these moments of solitude, because what it taught me was to stop and look at my life, so I could witness these moments where I’d be putting myself last.

Putting yourself last is like putting an oxygen mask on everyone else on the airplane before you reach up and grab a mask for yourself. How can you possibly be present to heal yourself and others when you are basically taking yourself out of the healing equation with your actions? Actions that say, “I don’t count.” I developed the “Me Now” warrior movement as a thank you and an acknowledgment to my life’s experience with the LOA. I wanted to let the universe know that I heard its message. When you’re called to action in your healing, jumping on the “Me Now” train is basically YOU telling yourself, and a higher power, that yes you hear the message, yes you got the message, and that “Yes you’re on it!”

Now here’s the rub, I can guarantee to you that I wouldn’t have been able to receive this call to action or think outside the box if I were feeling good or in remission, because in those moments of “feeling normal and good” I would’ve probably taken that moment for granted. But instead what I learned, through those character-building moments of excruciating pain, was to embrace my remission as my trophy moment and as my warrior badge for taking positive action in my healing. One thing is always guaranteed, out of the darkness you’ll always find yourself ten steps further along into your self-healing journey. And as you embrace the “Me Now” warrior movement, you’ll always know that a hand will be there to guide you on your way.

I’m excited to be that hand that reaches out to you and walks with you on your path when you’re in those moments of darkness. Remember we’re in this together (and by no means am I dismissing or invalidating where you are right now by not focusing on the suffering and pain you’re experiencing as a victim of this epidemic), but I don’t want to focus on what you already know and instead help you change your story. Whether you’re in remission or experiencing a flare up and are deep in a painful episode, or if you’re just not sure what’s going on in your body between conflicting and confusing diagnosis, if you have any ailments that desire natures healings and remedies then it’s time to embrace your “Me Now” warrior moment and focus on healing forward.

Before we begin your healing, in chapter two I’ll briefly get into why I believe that most autoimmune dis-eases are like chameleons testing our resolve. Lupus, what I like to term as “The Dis-ease of a Thousand Faces,” is like the Da Vinci Code of auto-immune disorders. It’s constantly giving clues and hints about why, where and when to begin our healing, and at the same time being allusive with the how. This is where my years of self-experimentation and experience can help you achieve your self-healing goals.

CHAPTER 2

The Dis-ease of a Thousand Faces

“Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care…”

~Psychic Therapist

When people hear that you have Lupus, most of the time they look at you with these blank stares and always answer with an, “Oh … so what is that anyway?” Or my favorite, a blank stare with no reaction at all, as if you just told them you had a headache. People will understand other autoimmune dis-eases. For instance, they will react when you tell them you have Lymes dis-ease (sorta), even though they have no idea how it exactly destroys your body. They understand MS, but only when it has already outwardly physically affected the patient, and they’ve heard of Crohn’s and Graves dis-ease but the only thing they know of the disease is that they’re glad they don’t have it. But when it comes to Lupus, because it was considered an “ethnic/other” disease mostly affecting black and brown people, nobody was really interested in knowing anything further about it. Even doctors were indifferent about it, and still are even though Lupus affects over 1.5 million Americans, with more than 200,000 US cases per year.

Although it has now crossed over to all nationalities, ethnicities, and races, doctors still don’t know where to start in healing this dis-ease and instead find ways to feed the symptoms with harsh drugs that initially help, but then become too toxic for the body’s system to handle and eventually starts to fight back. The reason doctors react this way with Lupus, I believe, is because it can be a very illusive, vague, and hard dis-ease to diagnose. There are way too many false positives and false negatives associated with trying to diagnose Lupus, and with such a small percentage of actual definite diagnosis given yearly to patients, it’s a clear telltale sign that we still have some ways to go for a real medical cure.

With that said, my best advice from this point forward is for you to become a strong advocate for yourself. The best thing I did for myself was to keep a record of my symptoms, episodes, and my flare-ups (if you’re going to be incorporating the doctor route into your self-healing journey, I highly recommend this). It’s important to be able to show your doctors a pattern of your symptoms, plus it shows that you mean business. Unless you walk in with three or more Lupus symptoms all at the same time, as it happened to me, it will take a while for you to get a proper diagnosis. It was only after I was sent to the hospital because of a full-blown staph infection from the lesions my family doctor incorrectly treated, that my doctor finally believed that the diagnosis of Lupus given to me by a holistic doctor was correct.

So, with that said, let’s see why an autoimmune disease like Lupus (an inflammatory disease whose immune system attacks its own tissues), is so difficult for doctors to treat and many times diagnose. Let’s break down the three most common early symptoms (and there are many but we’ll start with these) affecting Lupus sufferers.

Vague Symptom #1 - Fatigue

Fatigue is at the top of the list of the three critical early symptoms of this dis-ease, but it’s probably the #1 most debilitating symptom of Lupus. Unfortunately, fatigue is also one of those symptoms that fall under every other negative ailment known to man. Once your body is on the defensive and wants to protect you, it slows you down and kinda trys to get you out of the way, so it can heal you. One of the ways it does that is sometimes by putting you through the feeling of extreme debilitating exhaustion. The feeling is almost the same as being sedated by general anesthetics except you’re awake and feel the pain.

The difference with Lupus fatigue and “regular” fatigue is that Lupus fatigue does not go away no matter how much rest you get because it weakens you at a deep cellular level. Unfortunately, because fatigue ranges anywhere from all sorts of diseases and viruses, to hard work or a night of heavy partying, try showing up to your doctors’ appointment and telling them about your debilitating fatigue. Chances are they won’t even take any blood work (unless you insist), and if you’re a woman, unfortunately they’ll either blame it on your lifestyle or blame it on stress and your hormones. In essence, they slam the door shut to any other medical possibility.

Vague Symptom #2 - Joint/Arthritis Pain

Joint pain, whether it be rheumatoid or osteo, is another symptom that I would keep at the top of the three critical symptoms of this disease. The reason is because the pain is so agonizing that you feel like your whole body is literally in a vice. Couple that with your fatigue and you literally feel like you’re dying. It’s the kind of pain that comes on from one day to the next with absolutely no warning, while progressing downhill very quickly. Depending on where in your body it begins, it can either slowly prevent you from walking or make you barely able to move your hands to the point of feeling immobile.

I unfortunately allowed the stress I was facing at the time to take over my life. I allowed stress and doubt to change my healing story, and as a result, it gave way for my Lupus to completely debilitate my body. My pain got so severe that I couldn’t sit for more than five minutes at a time because then I wouldn’t be able to stand up. My body would lock in place. I was also losing back support from the pain in my lower back and knees, and when I tried tightening my core to help myself stand up, it would only make the pain in my lower back worse, forcing me to stand most of the time. But then I couldn’t stand for long periods of time because of the fatigue and the pain in my joints. I was a mess with joint pain.

Looking back, I remember sitting in meetings and waiting until everybody left the room before I attempted to stand because there was no w...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part One: Change Your Mind Change Your Story
• Part Two: Heal Your Body - Heal Your Mind
• Part Three: Lupus Beauty Secrets
• Part Four: Inspiring Recipes for Life
• Part Five: Inspiring Life Changing Journey
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Thank You!