Disordered parts don’t define us

I struggled with a chemical imbalance that diagnosed me with depression that manifested as an impending doom cloud each day I opened my eyes for over three decades. That type of imbalance trailed throughout many of the psycho-somatic ailments that Doctors believed were my lot in life, but they weren't. Nobody could offer the anecdote …

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Innocent

We are not our sin. We are not our mistakes. We do not have to re-live physical ailments that remind us of a memory in the past. I was 32 when my memories came back to me about sexual abuse starting when I was 3 years old. The emotional pain lingered for years and destroyed …

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Gluten or Candida Overgrowth?

Many years have passed since my days of dealing with IBS, so I had some concerns when familiar symptoms started manifesting.  As far back as I could remember, I had frequent bouts of abdominal pain associated with either constipation or diarrhea.  I was the child who routinely went to the nurse every morning with stomach …

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