I have had this desire to record my life for as long as I remember. I got my first Diary when I was 12, I think that started it. Now I only wish I had recorded things as I learnt them, as it is fascinating how I have grown and changed. But then it was not one thing. It was university exposing me to so many new ideas and new proofs. Slowly it all added up, and it was my own decisions, not someone telling me what to think. I changed but I grew into myself and I have never felt more like me or been happier.
I have been blogging since 2012. I started as a way to stay in touch with friends and family as I moved from the west coast of Canada to the east coast. I left my very successful downtown salon (that I started on my own with $10,000 at 21 years of age) and enrolled in UNB at 30. I thought since I was "no longer working," it would be easy to upkeep a blog as I love to write.
Well, turns out University was a lot of work; at least to be a Dean's Listed student every year, which of course I was! Ms. Perfectionist as always, my professors called me a dream student; engaged, eager to learn. Well I was paying my own tuition with cash so I was seriously working my tush off! This blog shows me from 30 to 33, when things started to really change. I got sick. Except it wasn't a sick they could cure.
Enter another posting for my husbands job, this time landing us in Ontario, a province I quickly grew to love. The medical care in ON was significantly better than NB! I saw multiple specialist in the first year and got diagnosed fully within 2 years. Eh, I didn't say my illness was easy for doctors either. Being in a disability minority puts me (and maybe you?) at a real disadvantage.
Luckily I had access to university studies, ie. the newest research. Actual peer reviewed research, not some garbage your well intending mother forwards you saying to drink bleach... I wish I was kidding. This actually happened to me. Of course it was not listed as bleach, it was listed as its chemical name (and "...it was diluted," like that somehow makes it better?!) which thank god I recognised. So, I am highly motivated to help and protect other patients who could fall victim to the "natural" course of medicine that "...can't hurt to try it, right?" Yes, yes it can, it can kill you actually.
Homeopathic remedies for asthma?! Sorry, but we know for a fact that homeopathic medicine is literally just very expensive water... see there is this thing called chemistry now that allows us to break apart substances into their parts and scientists tested thousands of homeopathic remedies and found H20, water and eau (that is french for water) ...oh and sugar. If it's a tablet not liquid homeopathic remedies are sugar tablets. I hope you got my sarcastic tone here; but I digress.
So back to my decision to leave up all the old distracting 'irrelevant to topic' stuff up on my blog. The embarrassing posts. The "Woo". Oh the "Woo". I want you to see I was raised by granola parents, with a certified organic farm. I did yoga from 18-30 (I got my teaching certificate actually from a top school in AB) and I ran by the St.Albert river for years until my knees no longer allowed for it- my doctor said stop! I ate organic, homemade everything. You can not even imagine how "clean" and "raw" my diet was. I meditated. I spent thousands (this makes me ill) on chiropractors adjustments and their insoles for my shoes that did squat because my beautiful feet were perfect as is a foot specialist later told me! I went to physiotherapy, massage therapy, acupuncture and Reiki sessions. I got my "Master Reiki" "degree". I did everything you could for health and wellness. If you ask me if I tried something and I did not hear of it, I would be shocked!
So, baby, I have done it all and landed square on my feet on the other side. Yes, I side with medicine. I side with reason. I side with logic. I side with "peer reviewed" being the standard. I side with published studies and formal post secondary education; because you do not learn enough by grade 12 to make informed health decisions. If you don't know what peer reviewed means above I can almost guarantee you are being taken advantage of.
It nearly killed me to take drugs... literally. I slept for 6 months like a zombie, literally slept, ate sometimes, used bathroom, and went back to bed to "sleep," if you can call it that. (So much pain!) My husband was scared. I wanted to die because I was in so much pain; at this point I decided to try drugs. They saved my life. I became me again. My pain dropped. Life got better. The drugs my doctors suggested I take for 3 years, I finally broke down and took them ...and I wish I had done it sooner.
So if you are looking for answers, if you are considering "alternative medicine," please stick around. I have "what works" coming up in my book, and I can save you potentially thousands of dollars. I just wish I could get my money, and my wasted time back spent on "natural" therapies.
You hear about the medicine side turning to natural, but have you heard about a 5 year vegetarian-clean living- drug free -granola crunching -woo- yoga teacher girl raised on an organic farm with a mom that made E V E R Y T H I N G from scratch (or the garden!)literally.... turning to medicine?! Why? Because once you are educated and understand logic, reason, facts and evidence, you can not unlearn what you know. Oh, that and I am alive thanks to drugs.
My new bumper sticker is, "I heart Lyrica."
Ps. Food is not medicine. It is food. Eat healthy yes, but it won't cure anything.
I have left this blog "as is" to show you who I was, and who I am. I feel this personal evolution is important, necessary to claim, and profound to share. I have always loved to work, which you can see in my multiple entrepreneurial adventures in the tabs below this one. I have never been motivated by money; these where all fun jobs on the side to socially connect with people. I hate selling! But, I love talking to people and helping them on topics (shopping?! even better!) I have mastered. So, feel free to browse my blog and you can know me like my friends and family did and you can decide if you resonate with what I am saying, who I am, and where I come from.
Much love and hope you have downloaded your FREE workbook; now I have a book to write for you... talk soon.
Ciao,
ce.
I have been blogging since 2012. I started as a way to stay in touch with friends and family as I moved from the west coast of Canada to the east coast. I left my very successful downtown salon (that I started on my own with $10,000 at 21 years of age) and enrolled in UNB at 30. I thought since I was "no longer working," it would be easy to upkeep a blog as I love to write.
Well, turns out University was a lot of work; at least to be a Dean's Listed student every year, which of course I was! Ms. Perfectionist as always, my professors called me a dream student; engaged, eager to learn. Well I was paying my own tuition with cash so I was seriously working my tush off! This blog shows me from 30 to 33, when things started to really change. I got sick. Except it wasn't a sick they could cure.
Enter another posting for my husbands job, this time landing us in Ontario, a province I quickly grew to love. The medical care in ON was significantly better than NB! I saw multiple specialist in the first year and got diagnosed fully within 2 years. Eh, I didn't say my illness was easy for doctors either. Being in a disability minority puts me (and maybe you?) at a real disadvantage.
Luckily I had access to university studies, ie. the newest research. Actual peer reviewed research, not some garbage your well intending mother forwards you saying to drink bleach... I wish I was kidding. This actually happened to me. Of course it was not listed as bleach, it was listed as its chemical name (and "...it was diluted," like that somehow makes it better?!) which thank god I recognised. So, I am highly motivated to help and protect other patients who could fall victim to the "natural" course of medicine that "...can't hurt to try it, right?" Yes, yes it can, it can kill you actually.
Homeopathic remedies for asthma?! Sorry, but we know for a fact that homeopathic medicine is literally just very expensive water... see there is this thing called chemistry now that allows us to break apart substances into their parts and scientists tested thousands of homeopathic remedies and found H20, water and eau (that is french for water) ...oh and sugar. If it's a tablet not liquid homeopathic remedies are sugar tablets. I hope you got my sarcastic tone here; but I digress.
So back to my decision to leave up all the old distracting 'irrelevant to topic' stuff up on my blog. The embarrassing posts. The "Woo". Oh the "Woo". I want you to see I was raised by granola parents, with a certified organic farm. I did yoga from 18-30 (I got my teaching certificate actually from a top school in AB) and I ran by the St.Albert river for years until my knees no longer allowed for it- my doctor said stop! I ate organic, homemade everything. You can not even imagine how "clean" and "raw" my diet was. I meditated. I spent thousands (this makes me ill) on chiropractors adjustments and their insoles for my shoes that did squat because my beautiful feet were perfect as is a foot specialist later told me! I went to physiotherapy, massage therapy, acupuncture and Reiki sessions. I got my "Master Reiki" "degree". I did everything you could for health and wellness. If you ask me if I tried something and I did not hear of it, I would be shocked!
So, baby, I have done it all and landed square on my feet on the other side. Yes, I side with medicine. I side with reason. I side with logic. I side with "peer reviewed" being the standard. I side with published studies and formal post secondary education; because you do not learn enough by grade 12 to make informed health decisions. If you don't know what peer reviewed means above I can almost guarantee you are being taken advantage of.
It nearly killed me to take drugs... literally. I slept for 6 months like a zombie, literally slept, ate sometimes, used bathroom, and went back to bed to "sleep," if you can call it that. (So much pain!) My husband was scared. I wanted to die because I was in so much pain; at this point I decided to try drugs. They saved my life. I became me again. My pain dropped. Life got better. The drugs my doctors suggested I take for 3 years, I finally broke down and took them ...and I wish I had done it sooner.
So if you are looking for answers, if you are considering "alternative medicine," please stick around. I have "what works" coming up in my book, and I can save you potentially thousands of dollars. I just wish I could get my money, and my wasted time back spent on "natural" therapies.
You hear about the medicine side turning to natural, but have you heard about a 5 year vegetarian-clean living- drug free -granola crunching -woo- yoga teacher girl raised on an organic farm with a mom that made E V E R Y T H I N G from scratch (or the garden!)literally.... turning to medicine?! Why? Because once you are educated and understand logic, reason, facts and evidence, you can not unlearn what you know. Oh, that and I am alive thanks to drugs.
My new bumper sticker is, "I heart Lyrica."
Ps. Food is not medicine. It is food. Eat healthy yes, but it won't cure anything.
I have left this blog "as is" to show you who I was, and who I am. I feel this personal evolution is important, necessary to claim, and profound to share. I have always loved to work, which you can see in my multiple entrepreneurial adventures in the tabs below this one. I have never been motivated by money; these where all fun jobs on the side to socially connect with people. I hate selling! But, I love talking to people and helping them on topics (shopping?! even better!) I have mastered. So, feel free to browse my blog and you can know me like my friends and family did and you can decide if you resonate with what I am saying, who I am, and where I come from.
Much love and hope you have downloaded your FREE workbook; now I have a book to write for you... talk soon.
Ciao,
ce.
My fitness level before I got sick, yoga master, above.