This may be long but an important story....Finding your voice!
I am a naturally curious person but that was squashed many times as a child. I was told "children should be seen but not heard" all throughout my childhood. It was just what was said a lot in that generation, but I am so glad it has stopped for the most part. No child should be told to not speak, think, or question things. (Don’t confuse that with first time obedience in child training, that’s a must!)
I asked a lot of questions in school and got reprimanded for those questions many times, telling me that "its just the way it is, or you just need to because I said so." In 5th grade I had a teacher who said to the whole class that my question was "the dumbest question" and I didn't speak again from that day on until my freshman year in High School when my English teacher saw my confusion and asked if I had a question. When I told him, "never mind, its a dumb question", He emphatically said "there are no dumb questions, if you don't understand something, you need to speak up"! His kindness forever changed me and gave me the wind behind me to spur me on to find my voice. Teachers, parents, how we respond to children shapes and molds them, try to be conscious of your words!
Although my mama told me to be quiet a lot, she also drilled it into me to use natural methods of healing, to always look for the root cause of illness and not just run to drugs to cover symptoms, and to read about and research everything. For this, I am forever grateful. Those lessons from her have lead me to most of the choices I have made today and how I am able to help people around the world with my business.
I had never been given an antibiotic as a child, my first and only one was when I was an adult. My mama read and read about natural things in books written by tried and true long standing health professionals, not a meme on the internet. She knew that they were damaging on so many levels and knew they were only for emergency use only. She used to get teased by her friends for being so “natural” and she has outlived them all and had great health even to this day.
My first obstetrician was very naturally minded and didn't use any invasive procedures during pregnancy or the birthing process. If the mama was healthy, the labor and delivery should be healthy and invasive free....He was such a wise man, and I drove two hours for every appointment and delivery just to keep him for four of my pregnancies.
When my oldest daughter was 6 month old she had a terrible diaper rash that was severe. After taking her to the doctor and them giving me a cream for it, it got 10x worse with the cream. When I called the doctor to tell her about it, she told me to keep using it. I refused because it made it so much worse, and the doctors response was "if your not going to do what your told, then don't call me" and hung up on me. I found another doctor asap that would listen to my mamas intuition and respect me as a parent. And Vitamin E oil fixed up her tender little tush straight away......
With my 5th child, I had my water break and so they strapped me to a table instead of letting me walk to help labor be productive. At 12 hours with no advancement, the doctor on call heavily pushed and insisted I needed a C-Section. Not wanting anything invasive we asked him to step out of the room to talk and when we did, the nurse came over and told us he was just done with his shift and wants to get paid for this delivery and that we could safely keep doing it naturally for 12 more hours if we wanted. He is just in a rush to go home she said. So we let the door hit him on the backside and we pushed on for another 11 hours to have her naturally, safely, with no complications. I was forever grateful for that nurse that filled us in on the doctors motives....He wasn't concerned for my health and safety, he just wanted to get paid and go home. Good to know... Mental note taken....
My husband died when I was 6 weeks pregnant with my youngest daughter. Trauma was all over the place, stress, confusion, lots of other drama going on with his family......Stress was an understatement. About 4 weeks after the funeral, (I am now about 10 weeks pregnant) I was having chest pains and discomfort. I went to the emergency room and they did all the things and couldn't find anything wrong. I had told them that I had recently lost my husband and had 4 children at home. They decided to send me for a nuclear test to see if I had blood clots in my lungs instead of putting two and two together and seeing it as stress related. KNOWING I was pregnant, they sent me to a wing of the hospital that had skull and crossbones all over it, with warning signs on every door , and left me to sit on a chair in the hallway by myself for my "nuclear Scan". This scan involved injecting me with a nuclear substance so they could light up my lungs to see if it was clear of clots....After they had done all the other things that said i was 100% healthy, knowing I am pregnant and recently lost my husband, this was their choice of action. I didn't follow God at this time, but as I sat there by myself waiting for my turn, EVERY ounce of my being told me to RUN and get out of the hospital and to NOT get the test....So i got up and checked myself out and went home and cried and slept. The best medicine for stress and overwhelming grief. I have thanked God so many times since then, for protecting my sweet girl, and the damage that un-necessary test would have caused for her. I listened to my mama instinct and knew it wasn't right to inject myself with anything while pregnant.....
A year or two after my husband died I started feeling extreme fatigue and joint pain so much so that when I tried to stand up in the morning upon rising, I would collapse onto the floor because the pain in my joints hurt so bad. I went to the doctor and they could find nothing and just recommended steroids. I refused...They are toxic and don't tell me WHY I am having the issue. They refer me out and I have test after test, and no one can find anything wrong with me. After several scans later and many doctors, the final doctor I went to see said "I think you are doing all this for attention"......UMMMMM, I have 5 kids under the age of 10 as a single parent and you think I have time to do this for attention? So I find a natural doctor in the area and within 10 minutes of talking to me, she tells me she knows what is wrong with me. She proceeds to tell me that I am breathing incorrectly.....I laugh at her and tell her I am an all natural kinda girl but that is ridiculous, how can you breathe wrong? I thought she was a quack. ..She proceeds to tell me that she can tell just by observing me that I am in a flight or fight mode from all the trauma and stress and that being in that temporarily is how the body is designed but to be there long term is damaging to the body. She proceeds to teach me how to breathe from the depths of my gut and lungs and not shallow breathe like she said I was, and told me to go home and practice. It was actually quiet hard to do...I decided to give it a try even though I didn't really believe her and went home and started doing these breathing exercises daily....Within weeks ALL my joint pain and discomfort was completely GONE.....It was eye opening to me the power the mind has over the body, the power stress has over the body and how it functions physically, and how quickly our body can bounce back when given the right tools.
Years later My son gets in the car while we were in Texas when he is 16 years old and within an hour starts to profusely sweat and talk crazy and spike a fever. We immediately drive him to the hospital and he tests positive for the Swine flu which is going on around the country at this time. They wanted to inject him with their cocktail and I refused. They were rehydrating him with fluids and that is all I gave them permission to do. I refused all other treatment that wasn't diagnostic. The fluids helped break his fever and he went home to rest for 7 days with food and sleep and lots of liquids and was totally back to normal. You do not have to agree to all meds or tests requested of you in the hospitals or doctors offices. Later I found out a lot of negative information about the shot they wanted to give him, and I didn't know that information then but I did know that they body has an incredible ability to heal itself and fight infection when given the right tools and not just medications in many situations which do not hit the root cause of the illness.
Fast Forward and Emma is 10 years old with severe food allergies and gets a tummy ache. We do all the things and it would help for a short period and then get worse. After a couple days of thinking she had just eaten something she shouldn't have, I take her to the local hospital. They cannot find out what is wrong but they can see there is something going on in her abdominal area. They wanted to do EXPLORITORY surgery on my ten year old......UMMMMMM NO! Unless you know what you going in for, its a hard NO......I did not agree or give consent. So they sent us to a local Childrens hospital that was about an hour away and after a specialist saw her they deemed it necessary for emergency surgery for a perforated colon. The Anesthesiologist came out to talk to me as they were prepping her for surgery and told me that they were going to give her an epidural as well as other meds to put her out. I absolutely SAID NO to the epidural. She was 10 and they were not going to touch her spine.....After I freaked, the doc said, "its ok, we have other ways to put her out".......Then WHY would you choose an epidural if you didn't need too......that was my question.....
I am so thankful for the expertise of the doctors that helped save her. She had a perforated colon and 6-8 inches had to be taken out, and thankfully they were able to save her from the toxins that were spilling into her gut. Emergency medicine is priceless and so valuable, but still needs to be done with caution and lots of questions when there is time to ask. Unfortunately the doctor thought it necessary to take out her appendix, even though there was nothing wrong with it, "because it will keep her from having to have surgery again SOMEDAY, INCASE it ever goes bad"........I was furious....I argued his decision and he stated that the appendix doesn't have a function anyway.....HMMMMMMM.... Really I said, I believe our bodies were created by God and every part of it has a purpose and her appendix didn't have anything wrong with it.....But alas, he had already done the damage....
While in the hospital, we used every essential oil in my purse on the bottom of her feet, hourly. A friend dropped off a diffuser and we diffused Clove and Lavender in her room from the moment she came back from surgery. The doctor said she would be in the hospital from 7-10 days minimum with this type of major surgery. By the 4th day, with her being oiled up every hour, she never took any pain meds and was walking around the two surrounding floors to deal with the boredom. The doctor found us walking the hallway and asked how she could possibly be up and walking and doing so well. I told him I was just adding some natural options to her care and he told us that he was going to release her to go home and that I should keep doing what we were doing. She was healing faster than any patient he had ever worked on. We went home that day, 6 days earlier than expected.
The most concerning thing was driving home from the hospital. Emma had just had emergency major surgery and they gave me a prescription for an anti-biotic for her that was so potent that the doctor gave me a tutorial on how to use it and to not miss the specific required times for taking it. He said it was a very strong drug so it needed to be used with care and regularity. Upon leaving the hospital we stopped and got the prescription. With my friend driving us, I read the insert for the prescription I just picked up for her. The side effects were shocking and the last one being "could cause death" in some patients.....UMMMMM HELLO NO......she is 10.....Not going to happen...
So I researched and used our natural products with great care and attention, and watched her body for signs, fed her bone broth a couple times a day to help her gut start to heal, gave her probiotics, essential oils internally for scaring and infection and had her rest with lots of healthy soft foods. We applied oils to her incision sights and when she was seen by the doctor for her follow up, he said she had healed beautifully!
Why do I feel this is important to talk about? Because I was always told to be seen and not heard, BUT we need to do the opposite. We need to be heard, loud and clear as voices of reason in a confused and medically greedy world. We need to research and apply logic and common sense and dig deep into true health and healing for our families. We need to stop funding big drug companies and really find the root cause for our illness' and ailments. We need to QUESTION EVERYTHING, as we are the ones living with the consequences of the doctors decisions. We need to advocate for our elderly loved ones, (they are so abused and taken advantaged of medically and need advocates) our children, our spouses, and not be pushed around and bullied into taking things that do not serve us or our health...
We need to have our voice, and we need to use it!
#read.the.inserts
#just.say.no
#protect.your.babies
#protect.your.family
#question.everything
#choose.health
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