HEALING CHRONIC LYME INTERVIEW

Back in 2017, I was contacted by fellow Tweeter, Scott Golden (life coach and podcaster of The Power of Perception podcast) to do a phone interview. During the interview, our connection kept on cutting in and out. I was able to talk for about 18 minutes until we were cut off. Scott called back and said that we'll do another interview sometime in the future. And I assumed that he never posted it.

Well, this morning, I happened to Google my name today (lol!),  and guess what popped up? 

The Power of Perception interview! 

So here it is and I'm happy to share 18 minutes of talking about healing from chronic Lyme disease, alternative therapies, releasing past trauma, music, teaching and thought awareness.

Just click the mike and enjoy!

Power of Perception Podcast Interview

7 NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS FOR A HEALTHIER NEW YOU!

I have recovered from chronic Lyme disease ( MSIDS) and have been symptom-free for over 3 years. In order to keep myself on the healthy track, I resolved to make healthier choices for myself and my family. 

These changes did not happen overnight. I  have never made a New Year’s resolution. I have adopted these simple but powerful ideas and goals that have helped me to live a happier, healthier, harmonious and more fulfilling  life.

    1.  BE CONSCIOUS OF YOUR THOUGHTS.  Your mind is the builder! - Edgar Cayce. Most of us are not aware of the constant chatter that goes through our heads.  The biggest problem is that most of the chatter is negative! Thoughts of anger, fear, anxiety, worry, jealousy,  envy, resentment and guilt, etc. are incredibly powerful and harmful. When I became aware of my thoughts, I resolved to change my old thought patterns to more positive, loving and healthier thought patterns. And believe me, this is      a lot of work!!! Reading books by spiritual teachers like Eckhart Tolle, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Louise Hay, etc. can open doors to a healthier way of thinking.

2. YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT.  My motto is: eat crap and you’ll feel crappy!   Resolve to take out the junk food in your diet and your body will thank you for it. Numero uno on my list is SODA!  It is probably one of the most unhealthiest crap you can drink. Especially DIET SODA - it is all chemicals and water.  This is a little story about diet soda. We all know that diet soda is sweetened with aspartame. Did you know that when aspartame is heated to 86 degrees, it releases free-methanol that breaks down into formic acid and formaldehyde? In other words, when you drink diet soda, you are slowly poisoning yourself with formaldehyde. And formaldehyde (a neurotoxin) can stay in your soft tissues for years!  How do I know this? It happened to me!

Allergie-Immun (the therapy that brought my son and myself into remission from Lyme) is an energetic, detoxing therapy that picks up chemical, biological, heavy metals, etc. that block your immune system from functioning. The first chemical that Allergie-Immun found in me was FORMALDEHYDE!  I used to drink lots of diet soda. I was probably addicted to it. But this was years ago!  My body apparently couldn’t eliminate it. My conclusion was that formaldehyde was part of the toxic mix that was making me sick. Resolve to make healthier choices in what you drink and eat.. By educating yourself, you can  be aware of the hidden dangers and therefore, make smarter choices for you and your family.

3. EXERCISE OUTDOORS. Go outdoors and move! There is nothing more stimulating and self-rewarding than exercising in the fresh air!  I am an avid hiker. (Thanks to my husband!) Being in nature, climbing up a mountain, feeling the warm sun on my face, filling my lungs with fresh air, has made my inner core stronger and healthier. OK, I admit that I am still working on my fear of bugs and bug bites leading to disease. So, when I’m hiking, I spray myself religiously with Dr. Ben’s Natural Cedar Oil  Insect Repellent, tuck my pants into my boots, and I am protected.

We also walk (my husband walks and runs) in our local park. We hike and walk all year round. We just bought crampons (metal spiked attachments to walk on snow and ice) so ice won’t stop us. I started hiking while I was still sick, by the way. My intuition told me that hiking (exercising outdoors) would help to strengthen my mind and body, so I didn’t give up. I believe that hiking helped me to get well. And now, exercising outdoors keeps me healthy.

View from the top of the Beehive Trail at Acadia National Park in Maine

4. LISTEN TO YOUR INTUITION. I have found my healing path by learning to listen to my intuition. Your intuition is the first thought that comes to your mind. It is your inner guardian angel. It is your “gut feeling”.

I had a gut feeling about the Allergie-Immun Therapy from Germany. This holistic therapy was not recommended to me by a doctor. It is best described as a self-help detox therapy. 
You do not need a prescription.  I knew people who were on the therapy. I researched and learned about it and said to my son who was suffering from chronic Lyme, “ this therapy will make you better.” He started the therapy and in little over a year, he was in remission. He is still healthy and well. Allergie-Immun Therapy was the best choice that I had made for myself and for my son - thanks to my intuition!

5. BEING THANKFUL.  I have learned to be aware of being thankful!  When you start seeing things from a more positive, loving and healthier perspective, your life will reflect your thoughts. Even your health! 

My sickness was a life lesson. And I am thankful for that experience! Sounds crazy? If I hadn’t gone through the nightmare, then I wouldn’t have taken the holistic path, or be aware of my thoughts or face my fears or be thankful for my life! I have learned to make thankfulness a permanent trait. And if I can do it, anybody can. The more you give thanks, the more you will feel blessed. The more you feel blessed, the happier you will be. Isn’t this what we are all striving for?

A Gratitude Mandala

6. BEING FORGIVING. Did you know that forgiveness is the great healer? When I started to release past emotional trauma, through therapies of Dr. Rasa and Dr. Gurevich, I noticed that my health was improving. I knew this was more than just a coincidence. Forgiving others is one of the greatest gifts that you can give yourself. When you forgive those who hurt you, you are radiating an invisible healing light throughout your body. You are also sending healing frequencies to the other person. When you forgive yourself from guilt, you are healing your soul. I continue to practice forgiveness and  healing through Mental Field Therapy and Cranial Sacral Therapy.

7. CONNECTING TO YOUR SPIRITUAL SELF. We are all connected to a higher power. We are part of this higher power. We are a part of the higher power that is known as God, the Universe, Jesus, the Divine, Buddha, Allah, or whatever you believe. We are not separate from God. This is the belief that has helped me to heal. I am learning to believe that God is love. God does not punish. God has no favorites and God does not make people sick. I have learned that our thoughts and beliefs are where all the negativity comes from.  It is all cause and effect.

Your thoughts are energy. And your thoughts create your world. If God is love and we are part of God, then our origin is love, too!  Our souls are pure love. But our souls do not think. Our minds do. Thinking good health, loving thoughts, compassion, forgiveness, peace and goodwill, bring harmony to not only your life, but those around you. It’s a beautiful thought.

And beautiful thoughts will create a beautiful world.


I wish everyone an abundance of love, good health, beautiful thoughts and positive changes in the new year!

© Danette Whelan 2015

"What Is The Most Resilient Parasite?"

                                                   Dom Cobb – Inception - 2010

“What is the most resilient parasite? A bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm?

An idea.  Resilient, highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain, it’s almost impossible to eradicate...”

Doc Brown was an astute medical detective. I remember one of his patients telling me,

 “I’ve been to ten different doctors, took all these tests, and not one doctor knew what was wrong with me until I came to Doc Brown.”

Yes, Doc Brown knew what to test for and what labs to use. Doc Brown had a game plan for attacking all the bacteria, viruses, etc. He had a game plan for improving your immune system. He had a game plan for getting each patient well. Sounds promising? Sounds like this could work? But there was one problem.  A BIG problem. And I never saw it until I observed my son at a monthly doctor’s visit. (See A Lyme State of Mind)

Doc Brown focused more on the disease than on the game plan to get well. You could say he was obsessed with finding the cause of every patient’s symptoms. He tested – relentlessly. As a result, his doctor’s visits were depressing and overwhelming.  True, on one hand, it’s a step in the right direction to know what you’re infected with and to start treating. But, on the other hand, it’s emotionally devastating to find out that you are the unwilling host to not one but MANY resilient pathogens causing havoc in your body. And pathogens, like the Bb spirochete and mycoplasma, have no cell wall, therefore could never be cured!

“Oh my God,” I cried, “I could never be cured!” “My son could never be cured!”   How in the world can you get better if that horrible idea is stuck in your head?

 YOU CAN’T!!!

My son dreaded doctor’s visits. He dreaded getting the test results and hearing about all the bacteria, viruses and parasites he was positive for. And the truth was, he just wasn’t feeling better.

He was following Doc’s game plan.  Take antibiotics, and /or other drugs for bacterial infections, anti- virals for the viruses, supplements and herbs to support the organs and immune system, probiotics, vitamins and minerals, etc.

Sounds like a game plan! So what possibly could be the problem? Why did I have that gut-wrenching feeling that this game plan wasn’t working?  Why did I feel that this wasn’t the way for us to be healed? What was the problem?

GREAT SCOTT!

DOC BROWN HAD THE FEAR!!!

He was terrified of ticks spreading disease. He was terrified of bug bites developing into chronic disease. He was terrified of walking on the grass! He was terrified to be outside!

But, most of all, I believe, he was terrified that most of his patients would not recover.

My heart sank as I watched the despair creep up in my son’s eyes while Doc was going over his chronic symptoms and writing out a refill prescription. That was the defining moment for me. My son had finally realized that he had chronic symptoms. Persistent, chronic symptoms that Doc could only hope to relieve but not heal.

That was when I knew I had to seek out an alternative way to better health. I had to leave this system.  I had to find a way to eradicate the parasitic idea of “chronic disease” from my thought process. And my son was the catalyst. My son’s chronic condition motivated me to go out on a limb and seek out a treatment that was relatively new. A treatment that was foreign to me. A treatment that did not involve conventional medicine. This decision ultimately changed our lives for the better.

There was no denying that Doc was doing his best and going above and beyond helping incredibly sick people and children. But the fact was that I had yet to meet one of Doc’s patients that were healed of their chronic problems. There were patients that did improve with Doc’s treatment plan. But most were resigned to their fate that they will face chronic issues for the rest of their lives.

I couldn’t accept this. I believed that my son and I would regain our health.

Within a few months, I began holistic treatments with Dr. Lovejoy and my son started the Allergie-Immun therapy* soon after. A year later, I also began the Allergie-Immun therapy. And I’m happy to report that our “chronic” days are now behind us.

Thankfully, my son never got caught up with THE FEAR.  He still loves to play a pick up game of soccer every now and then. And he especially loves to fish. But what he loves most is being symptom free, having his life back and feeling “normal” again.

Energy is life and health. Missing energy stands for sickness and death...A lot of secrets in energy have been physically and scientifically decoded…

Conventional medicine is still attached to a mechanistic conception of the world…”Allergie-immun” concentrates on the energetic field only...

From the Patient Information pamphlet for Allergie-Immun

*I have no financial interest in allergie-immun and do not make any commission off of any sales.

The Allergie-Immun Drops

 If you are looking for any kind of information, regarding Lyme Disease, you will wind up at http://www.lymenet.com/ . Lymenet is a place for support. It’s a place for advise. It’s a place for a cyberspace shoulder to cry on. If you’re looking for a doctor that specializes in Lyme (Lyme Literate Medical Doctor), you’ll find one here.  If you’re looking for alternative therapies, this is the place to go. And this is where I followed some bloggers who were taking the Allergie-Immun drops.

The drops sounded intriguing but, no one exactly knew how they worked. The drops were energized. That meant that there were frequencies added to them. I checked out the Allergie-Immun website to see if they offered any other information or insight as to how these drops worked. Besides explaining what an allergy is, my foggy Lyme brain still couldn’t quite understand the concept. All I knew was that they regulated your immune system so that it can function properly. 

The way it worked was that the user submits a DNA sample (saliva or blood) approximately each month together with current symptoms and health issues. The lab would analyze the sample and send corresponding drops to correct whatever is disrupting the immune system function at that time. New drops are sent with a personal biochemical and energetic analysis each month. The analysis would commonly reveal chemical, biological, and energetic disruptions in the body. And the drops are designed to correct each disruption.

Some bloggers were experiencing weird, emotional and physical symptoms, like constant runny noses for months, achy, teary eyes or rashes that came out of nowhere. Some had periods of extreme exhaustion and depression.  And some started to feel better around the fifth or sixth round of taking the drops. It seemed like many of their chronic symptoms were subsiding and possibly going away altogether.

I had a gut feeling that these drops would help my son and me. I also felt my son was the priority. I wasn’t going to let him go down the same path as mine. So I e-mailed the lab to ask if my son should continue antibiotics while doing the AI therapy. The answer was no, it was not necessary.

So, as soon as my son started the drops, he stopped the antibiotics.  My son’s progress was slow, but little by little, I saw this extraordinary change in him. Fatigue, depression, brain fog and anxiety had been replaced by vitality, contentment, clear thoughts and a sense of calm. It took about one and a half years to complete his treatment. We went to our family doctor for a CBC and they checked his CD-57 level.*

*(The CD-57 test is a marker for chronic or active Lyme disease. In patients with active infection, the specific subset of natural killer cells (the CD-57 count), are always suppressed. According to Labcorp, the normal range for these natural killer cells is 200 or above. Doc Brown had tested Zack’s CD-57 count almost two years before he started the drops. At that time, his count was in the 60 range. Doc Brown had said that his infection was active and with treatment, his CD-57 count would rise. Doc Brown said the same thing to me when he first started treating me. My CD-57 count was 12! After years of antibiotic treatment, my CD-57 barely rose).

The results of the CBC came back and guess what?  Zack’s CD-57 count was normal! That meant that he had no active infection. He was in remission. And I knew it. I could see he had more energy. He was always borrowing the car and going somewhere. He had become a social animal! As a matter of fact, he had so much energy that he was hardly ever home. It seemed like he was making up for the years that he was sick.

I believed in the drops. And I was planning on taking the drops. But I kinda got side tracked.  You can say that I took a detour on my road to wellness. This “detour” was unplanned and unintentional. My life, as I knew it, came to a sudden halt.

You’ve heard of the expression, “What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.” Well, I’m stronger today as a result of my “detour”. But this event led me to my next doctor. And this doctor helped me to heal emotionally, physically and spiritually. You read right, he helped me spiritually.

For a few months, in the winter of 2009-2010, I tumbled into the Twilight Zone. I had an experience… I can’t explain.  I needed help. I needed answers. I needed a specialist. And that’s what led me to Dr. Gurevich.

To be continued….