Sunday, December 18, 2011
I finally figured out how to get my 'line breaks' back in to blog posts...phew.
I am surrounded by amazing women. Sometimes I fantasize about writing a novel involving women healers. It sounds rather cliche. Besides it would probably end up being too funny. Massage therapists working a place of power, who wield the ability to manifest their own destiny and heal the public with alternative voodoo medicine.
2nd Street is actually very pretty at Christmas time.
Vata season is kicking my ass. Luckily Drack and I have been offered a new mattress, that won't leave our shoulders and elbows bruised in the morning. A few weeks ago I was waking up with migraines everyday, and RF switched me from trikatu, or rather a kapha blend of herbs to a hingvastak a vata blend of herbs 3 times a day to cool my body down. No headaches since. I also saw Meadows, which means I've had another release and I may have the same reaction to my last few-headaches. She also tested me for thyroid and adrenal issues, of which I'm taking a week long regimen of licorice root to help restore some balance. I also picked up a blend of herbs that Life Spa calls Anxiety Free to calm my nerves-which I feel like I'm ignoring. I should begin to sleep through the night again, and wake up feeling like I actually did sleep. She also suggested more craniosacral sessions, the last one of which did make me an inch taller - massage and body work truly is amazing.
I've been very interested in natural remedies for flu/cough since Drack has the flu at Thanksgiving. About a teaspoon of ground Turmeric mixed in hot water with honey and lemon is an amazing mucus liquifier. Another thing that really helped him was leaning his head over a steam bath with a few drops of eucalyptus oil and breathing deep-cleared him up for hours. I also convinced him to take an epsom salt bath to relieve aches and pains and help pull out the sickness. And also he drank tons of warm water, but also coconut water helped to replenish nutrients he was flushing out. I think mostly though he needed to stay in bed and rest, which he didn't do enough of-but he was better within a 4-5 days, without the use of ridiculous over the counter drugs.
Winter is lame, the sun sulks along the horizon, all pissed off and everything is asleep. Nashville is really just not as pretty in winter as it is all of the other seasons.
Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough pretty in my life, and it makes me miss hills and mountains where I can plainly see unobstructed pretty views. I mean surprisingly Nashville is quite hilly, but it's not the same. I need to find an outcrop that looks for miles around in every direction without a damn tree or house in the way. Drack's folks got us one night a lovely B&B that they frequent just an hour south of here with a water fall out it's back door. We're planning to go in the Spring perhaps when there's a chance for wild flowers, but I could seriously stand to get out of here sooner. We've been talking a lot of our perspective trip to California and whether making it up to Humboldt is a reality. It's not looking so at the moment. I just feel like it's pointless to go back if I'm not going to spend more time in the state as a whole, I'd rather visit some place I've never been. No offense to those who are in LA - but it just doesn't sound like an escape to me.
Most likely my next post will be in the New Year, huzzah!
