Caring Matters
The last few days have been tough, I felt stuck. Unable to move forward in my healing. I thought I had gotten over most of my past but alas there was still something that was [Read More]
Like many who suffer from scoliosis, I have lived with chronic pain for most of my life. And I have grown so used to it that when I was in labor I did not feel [Read More]
The common advice in treating scoliosis is to stretch the damn curve out. But of course, we all know that it does not really work. In fact, forcing muscles into a particular position can do [Read More]
For a long time, I didn’t really understand when Dr. Hannibel asked Clarice, in the famous movie, Silence of the Lambs, “Well, Clarice… have the lambs stopped screaming?” It is only now after 4 years [Read More]
My face is not symmetrical. Repressing my painful feelings froze the right facial muscles into an asymmetrical distortion. This led to the development of scoliosis, and not the other way round. I find it irritating [Read More]
We are programmed and groomed since childhood to believe things that are not really true or are inherently false. Our parents, caregivers, and the school system work at creating obedient and pliable humans who will [Read More]
Recently, a fellow scoliosis warrior wrote that her doctor told her that scoliosis is due to a malfunction of the pineal gland. That got me digging about the pineal gland’s connection to scoliosis. According [Read More]
Triangulation is a common mode of interaction in dysfunctional families. And children become unwitting players in the toxic drama games of the adults in their life. They get sucked into playing roles or scripts their [Read More]
Like a gold miner, I keep digging for nuggets of information that could assist my healing from mental and physical issues. In one of my earlier posts on the fascia and scoliosis, I stumbled upon [Read More]
The root of Complex-post-traumatic stress disorder ( C-PTSD) is inescapable fear. As children, the only option in dealing with dangerous predators aka abusive parents/caregivers is freezing – numbing out, dissociating not reacting. Becoming frozen zombies [Read More]