Coming To Safety

Something in me gets activated when I hear statements like: “Lyme is not real", "Chronic illness is all in your head", "Just think positive thoughts". Ahhh... heavy sigh. The feelings arising in me - unseen, misunderstood and often even softly shamed. I want to speak about it — not from a place of fighting, we already have too much of it even in therapy field, but from a place of complexity. Because yes, I can agree that testing for Lyme or any kind of bacteria is not always accurate. You have to know how, when and millions other tiny details and still sometimes is a chance of luck. It’s difficult to catch certain bacteria or virus. The body is not so simple. There are biofilms, hidden processes, things we don’t even fully understand yet. But at the same time — I have lived experience of being in a healing for over 10 years.  I have seen what something like Lyme can do to a body. How it can impact the nervous system. How it can create chaos in the mind. How it ...