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July 2008 
DatingGod: The Ocean Edition
Kate
I've done a big redesign of my main blog over at http://datinggod.typepad.com (the DatingGod main blog): new colors, masthead, all sorts of cool stuff.
I haven't worked out all of the kinks yet, so expect things to shift and move as I figure out what the deal is here. I know that I want to focus less on the emotional-Me-fiesta and more on the process of health and well-being. I almost always write in first person and don't imagine that will change, but who knows? :) If this sounds vague, it still feels vague even to me, even after many weeks of playing with it, trying to figure out what it is that's attempting to burrow its way out of me, or be born, or some other such alien/uncomfortable/ready-or-not-here-I-come/pregnant-with-possibilities metaphor.
I do know my immediate focus must be on regaining my health, and that for a number of factors, this has been proving to be harder than I had anticipated. So, in short, this next blog phase will be about How To Regain One's Health When The Burden Of Un-Health Behaves In A Disproportionately Unwieldy Fashion. Or even shorter: I Feel Like Crap.
I came up with the idea to use Integral Practice's four modules of development because I did a little assessment and what I realized is that I am skewed and fractured to one degree or another on just about every single layer of human-ness. And as the best way to deal with an overwhelming project is to break it down into pieces, that is what I'll be doing with the Dis-Ease I've got going on. And of course, I'll be inviting you along to take a look at where you are in regard to health in your living . . .
Hope you stop by and say hello over there in my little typepad.com on the prairie :)
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Kate, caught up with your new blog look and it's fantastic. Great colours. Also liked the review on Paul Coelho's book, some wise things there ;-)
hi kate…..my eyes zoomed right to the part about regaining your health.
i typically advocate health & wellness through the basics….diet, supplements & exercise and avoiding the negatives like smoke, medications, pollution, food additives, stress, etc.
recently, however, mercury poisoning caused by amalgam dental fillings has gotten my attention as i have personally experienced symptoms that, for my state of health, shouldn't exist.
you are probably aware that many “experts” believe that wide variety of debilitating and supposedly incurable conditions may actually be due to chronic mercury poisoning.
“Many of today's “mystery syndromes” that physicians don't know how to treat at all - fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, anorexia, recurrent depression - aren't mystery syndromes. They are just mercury poisoning. Treating them as mercury poisoning cures them, while the usual treatments are seldom effective in the long term.”
its a controversial topic. it bit like who killed jfk. (that might be slight exaggeration.)
my research continues as i have a mouthful of fillings replaced 1 by 1.
look forward to your “regain” series. regards, joe
moni … thank you! and yeah, paolo rocks :)
joe … i don't really agree with you, and not based on stories, but because of research i read during graduate studies for public health … not that all research is the end all and be all, but what i read was enough to convince me that it isn't some Great Hideous Issue like i'd been told all these years as member of the granolahead nation :) … and also based on research, the illnesses you mentioned are most likely tied into several things - environmental toxins, stress, toxins in the food supply (high fructose corn syrup, food sensitivities/allergies like wheat and gluten), and compromised immune systems rather than just mercury as a sole culprit… . and only some physicians don't know how to treat these illnesses. those up on things holistic do treat, and there are more every day as we become more holistic as a culture … there is a golden rule in science: correlation is not causation. maybe you could look into that phrase, what it means, why it's there, and it might help you form a clearer picture …
Kate, I haven't checked into Zaadz in forever, but I'm finally here and you are always who I check in with first. I love this photo here of you and as always I love your honesty and your verbal dexterity and willingness to share the challenges and not just the light. Oh the thinking, thinking thinking!