Lifting Brain Fog
The beginning of a New Year is bringing a new blog! A New Year’s GIFT to you!
LIFTING BRAIN FOG
I’m so eager to get my new blog on up and active, but my technical skills are slowing me down, so for now, I’m posting my first post here!
About 4 1/2 weeks ago, now, my wizard chiropractor/healer, more holistic than any other provider I know, (Dr. Ragon in Green, Ohio, if you are local) said he would help me to make dyslexia a thing of the past in me! He had commented to me that he used to have dyslexia and the “used to be” were some of the sweetest words I’d heard in a long while! AP (Applied Kinesiology) showed an allergic reaction to wheat and gluten, and so began a lifestyle change of some proportion!
The differences have been very encouraging and progressive. I’ve noticed my skin isn’t so dry, my digestion is better, I’m wanting to eat less (since now I’m actually absorbing more of the nutrients in my food), and since my body isn’t wrapping the gluten in water, I’ve lost some weight, as well.
What is perhaps more exciting to me is the difference in my brain functioning. My memory is greatly improved, as is my organizing abilities, I’m still doing the dyslexic switching (I’ll explain more about this in a later post), but I’m more aware of it, am actually catching it a bit more before it happens. Although, today, I wanted to recycle a paper cup with some water in it. The water went into the trash, since the cup was going into the recycle bin!!! Wrong receptacle! It was the sink, not the trash, silly brain!
But you know, I am developing more compassion for this brain that has had to work harder all my life because of the gluten intolerance. And I am SO looking forward to the fruits of a brain that glides, rather than one that always was running into the dry, gravelly patches and stumbling. Ohhhhh….what adventures await!
Some initial research has uncovered numerous contributors to what many refer to as brain fog. I have been quite familiar with energetic contributors to this, but not as much, the allergens, like gluten. And the psychologist in me has recognized that a fair amount of anxiety in general, and social anxiety, in particular may have stemmed from allergies, so that anxiety can be a symptom of allergic reactions. Treat the allergies and the anxiety mitigates and perhaps could even disappear!
I will be writing about this from 2 perspectives: one as an individual with my own unique experiences to share and as a holistic and energy psychologist, bringing a psychologically unique perspective on what the psychological and medical professions often lump into convenient diagnoses, like depression and anxiety. They then use these diagnoses to prescribe medications that DO NOT heal the causes of the symptoms and that far too often cause both short and long term side effects that can be dangerous to your health. In fact, that’s why the DSM (Diagnostical and Statistical Manual) was written.
May this blog bring you relief, freedom and joy!
