Hey y’all. Wow! What a journey it has been to write about my health. As I shared yesterday, the spirit, soul and body are very intertwined. Working on one will bleed over into the others. Even when you don’t want it to.
Blog 4 in this series that was NOT supposed to be a series. My original intent was to share what I had learned when I decided I wanted to feel better and how addressing my diet played a role in that. The issue of sugar. The issue of processed foods. The nutritionist and all the things I learned about myself there. I just wanted you know that what we eat affects our health so much more than we know.
Something I haven't shared yet is what the nutritionist was able to tell me that the doctors had not been able to. She gave me a diagnosis after the initial test results came back and she had reviewed them. My body had been in full tilt protection mode for most of my life. My God given systems were depleted from never getting to rest. There is too much to share all of it. My prayer is I have given you enough in the story to know that what you eat can affect the soul and spirit.
I do want to share one of the more critical things she found in the testing. Your adrenal gland is designed to give you an instant burst of superhuman strength when in a fight or flight situation. Layman's definition. Mine had been running full bore for most of my life. It was worn out. This had a major influence on why I was always so worn out. It had been overworked and underpaid for so long it was basically shutting down. I had other organs that were worn out also. All this from being of high alert basically 24/7. My diet was not healthy enough to help these organs replenish and repair.
This is where I understood how the soul can and does affect the body. My fear, fear of almost everything, lead to my body being overworked in protection mode. I had no idea I was doing this to myself. I only knew I had to protect myself because of the abuse I had experienced. Growing up, those who were supposed to protect me did not. They actually inflicted much of the abuse. It was hard to believe I could be protected. Even when I was, I dismissed it or did not trust it.
This included God. I think most people who are victims of abuse have a hard time believing that God is trustworthy. Even when He has shown that He is, the abused child cannot believe it.
The weight of that hit me yesterday. The wind blowing will normally cause me problems with my sinuses. The wind blew yesterday. I had problems with my sinuses. I did take inventory and know now that it was not just the wind. These blogs have had an effect on my soul. Old traumas have surfaced, and old defenses have come back. It had a physical effect on my body I always thought was just allergies. Turns out, the connection between the three parts, spirit, soul and body is real.
This was a blog on health. Physical health in my mind. Look where it has taken me. I am sharing and dealing with things I never intended to address. And now it is a series rather than one simple blog about how addressing my nutritional health has made me feel better. All I really wanted to share was, read the ingredients. Know what you’re eating. So much for my “plan.”
I am seeing how sharing my “stuff” is healing for me. My prayer is it’s healing for you also. After all, my goal was to share hope, health and freedom with you. I never considered the cost. It seems high to me. Maybe one more blog tomorrow to wrap this up and hopefully tie it all together.
Okay, bye for now.
Delisa (with Carr)