This is last show in the “Loving the Natural You” series here on “The Wellness Journey” airing from August 13th.
Lynnis talk’s with 3 of the 16 Authors from the collaborative book “Power Up – Super Woman, Stories of Courage and Empowerment”. Within the pages of Power Up, Super Women, authors from across the globe share their messages of hope and empowerment. These authors are women who faced adversity, failure, sickness, disappointment and hurt. Whether the stories are about illness, divorce, domestic violence, diversity, child birthing, climbing the corporate ladder, depression, and more, the authors leave the reader with a sense of inspiration and hope as well as the desire to rise up with the courage to face whatever it is life has in store. All over the world, women are taking the initiative and letting their voices be heard. In this day of the #MeToo movement, this book, Power Up, Super Women, is an awesome compliment to the philosophy that now is the time to step out of your comfort zone to pursue your passion, purpose, and POWER. It’s time to “Power Up, Super Women!”
Tracey Yang is a thought leader, business owner, and artist. She uses her life experiences such as her previous chronic illness to use as examples in her writing in hopes that others can find their own form of greatness.
She currently resides in Mid-northern Alabama, the USA alongside her husband John.
Nichole Jansen. Over the past 30 years, Nicole Jansen has had the honor of coaching and training thousands of women and men to transform their lives and achieve extraordinary results in business and in life
In her view, there is nothing better than seeing people excel and live their best life, especially when they are elevating others at the same time! She is a speaker, coach, and host of the Leaders Of Transformation Podcast. Her mission is to help facilitate global transformation – from isolation and competition to connection and co-creation.
Sarika Bhakta, CDEA Certified Diversity Executive, visionary leader, and entrepreneur, Bhakta was born in Gujarat, India and raised in the American Midwest. Adjusting to the American culture was extremely challenging for Bhakta inspiring her life’s mission of helping people identify their authentic self to be successful change agents and leaders in today’s everchanging global economy.
She is a seasoned and multi-faceted executive who has over 20 years of experience empowering diverse talent and population groups to maximize their leadership potential while increasing their cultural competency and global perspective. She is a sought-after consultant, speaker, trainer and community engager due to her high energy, interactive and inspiring style. Bhakta is also the co-investigator/research collaborator for a national study assessing women’s leadership progression in the workplace while conducting a deeper exploration on challenges and opportunities impacting Asian Pacific Islander women’s leadership trajectory.
No one wants to be labelled or have others look at us as weak, but when you are living with a decease it is what it is and we have to find a way to live as productively as possible. I DON’T have Joint Hypermobility (EDS), but I do have Fibromyalgia + Myofascial pain. I have had it for over 27 years now, and as I get older, it gets a bit harder as one does not recover as fast as I used to each day. Being productive in something you love feeds the mind, soul, spirit, and heart, which eases pain. I can not work a conventional job, as sleep is my nemesis, and one never knows if one will get any sleep from day to day. I admit at times, it sucks; it can get really hard, especially if you’re on your own, and because it does not show on your face and everyone thinks your ok. I have traveled many roads trying to balance work, life, and body in harmony, and I have found a calling that serves humanity and serves me in my heart and soul. I work on the computer all day, which is not good for the body, but I get to interview people making a difference in the world who have had it much harder than me and who are now living examples of how to find meaningful purpose and joy despite what you have gone through or are going through. Pacing oneself is a must. Honouring the mind-heart-soul and body connection is essential in finding that partnership in respect within, for only in balance can we live in peace with ourselves. I know it can be hard at times; the pain, depression, lack of sleep, immobility, and not being able to do the things you want to do can be hard in finding that joy of living, but we can if we listen in, find that balance and honour ourselves in the nurturing we can to live a happy proactive life. So I take each day as it comes, sometimes a desperate struggle, most days a plodding through, and sometimes a leap and a jump, we just have to go with the flow. I will have to work forever, as if I still wish to live on earth, I need to, but if I continue to find joy in it and meaningfulness, then that feeds my soul as well as my body and gives me a reason to be. For I believe we all need that reason to be here, and we are SO MUCH MORE THAN OUR DISABILITY. WE ARE WONDERFUL SOULS SERVING HUMANITY in any way we CAN. Here is an article and shows I have done on the subject that may help you on your fibro journey, I wish you all strength and joy in your lives.
Recovering the Whole of you with Kiti Adderley and her guest Dr. Ann Rolle, on air July 30th
Learn to Eat for Your Metabolic Type.
Ann empowers health-minded, busy women, to manage their hormones, digestive issues, stress, weight, and help them boost energy levels, so that they can be their healthiest, and look and feel their best.
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As a Holistic Nutrition Practitioner. Ann’s interest and passion for natural health began over thirty years ago while working as a Registered Nurse Midwife in the Bahamas. After observing the positive outcome of a natural plant-based diet in active seniors, she initiated this diet in herown family. So intrigued with the importance of nutrition in health, she earned a PhD in Holistic Nutrition, while still working as a Public Health Nurse/Health Educator. Since retirement, Ann delved full time into holistic nutrition and offers clients a healthier alternative in managing lifestyle diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and obesity. She now helps clients get to the root cause of their health issues and not merely address the symptoms. Today she will share with you how the Metabolic Typing diet can powerfully improve your health. Ann is a Certified Metabolic Typing Advisor, Functional Diagnostic Practitioner Transformational Coach and also a certified member of the American Association of Drugless Practitioners.
I empower health-minded, busy women, to manage their hormones, digestive issues, stress, weight, and help them boost energy levels, so that they can be their healthiest, and look and feel their best.
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Could your Fibromyalgia Actually be Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome? No
Fibromyalgia symptoms can overlap with autoimmune diseases and other arthritis conditions making it difficult to diagnose. The defining symptoms of fibromyalgia are often associated with other subjective and objective symptoms which occur in combination. The cause of fibromyalgia is considered as complex as its clinical presentation. The exact cause of fibromyalgia is still not well understood but mechanisms that have been suggested include
Abnormal circulating levels of central neurochemical substances
Skeletal muscle abnormalities, structural or functional
It has also been suggested that joint hypermobility (JH) may be associated with the pathology of fibromyalgia.
Joint Hypermobility (EDS)
Joint hypermobility is defined as “abnormally increased mobility of small and large joints beyond the limits of their physiological movement.” Joint hypermobility is common among in young females and is seen in about 5% of the healthy adult population. When musculoskeletal symptoms occur in hypermobile people in the absence of any other systemic rheumatological disorder, it is called “hypermobility syndrome.” Joint hypermobility is also a feature of a medical condition called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) that is characterized by weakness of the connective tissues of the body.
What makes EDS different from fibromyalgia?
One with this condition has deformed collagen, the glue of the body. Therefore, ligaments and tendons do not have the strength to function effectively to work correctly and muscles must work on overload to compensate for their lack of effectiveness. This causes looseness in the joints that allow for bones to shift. One lives with many subluxations (partial dislocations) and even full dislocations. A simple twist, turn, a hug can all cause things to shift. Unfortunately, this shifting of the structure creates pain that one must learn how to live with. Remember, it IS NOT a Systemic Autoimmune Disorder or a Collagen Vascular Disorder.
The Study
In a study reported in the Journal of Rheumatology, the association between joint hypermobility and primary fibromyalgia was investigated. The study group was comprised of 88 patients (all female, median age 34 years old) with widespread pain clinically diagnosed as fibromyalgia and 90 healthy controls (all female, median age 36 years old). Excluded from the study were
Patients with any other rheumatological or systemic disorder.
Patients with any other inflammatory process or degenerative arthritis.
Anyone who had been receiving medications.
The patients had not been diagnosed with having fibromyalgia by a rheumatologist prior to the study and had not been treated for fibromyalgia.
Study Process
All patients were admitted based on widespread pain lasting longer than 3 months. Patients and controls were then initially evaluated by a rheumatologist. The patients underwent further and more specific evaluation by two other clinicians (who were blinded to the initial evaluation) for the determination of fibromyalgia and joint hypermobility.
Fibromyalgia was assessed in all patients by questioning about common complaints associated with the disease. They were diagnosed with fibromyalgia if they met the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for the classification and diagnosis of fibromyalgia. Joint hypermobility was considered present in patients based on the Beighton modification of Carter and Wilkinson criteria for joint hypermobility.
Study Results
Fifty-six of the 88 patients with widespread pain initially resembling fibromyalgia met the ACR criteria for fibromyalgia, while 6 of the 90 healthy controls also met the ACR criteria. Patients with or without fibromyalgia were also compared for the frequency of joint hypermobility. The frequency of joint hypermobility was:
8% in patients with fibromyalgia.
6% in patients without fibromyalgia.
Joint hypermobility was also recognized in 10 of the 32 patients with fibromyalgia who did not exactly meet the ACR criteria. The presence of joint hypermobility was more common in this group than in the controls.
Conclusions
The association between fibromyalgia and joint hypermobility is not totally understood. Joint hypermobility may cause widespread arthralgia in patients due to misuse or overuse of hypermobile joints.
Data from this particular study indicated:
That the typical complaints of fibromyalgia were primarily observed in the patients that did meet the ACR criteria.
Some patients who exhibit fibromyalgia symptoms clinically but do not meet the ACR criteria could actually have joint hypermobility misdiagnosed as fibromyalgia.
Joint hypermobility was first featured in rheumatology literature in 1967. Today, joint hypermobility is better understood and more widely recognized. However, further investigation and research are still needed to learn even more about the interaction between joint hypermobility and fibromyalgia.
You have inside you a cloak of gossamer connective tissue that surrounds and supports everything and functions like fiber optics. This tissue is called fascia.
Fascia is a specialized system of the body that has an appearance similar to a spider’s web or a sweater. Fascia is very densely woven, covering and interpenetrating every muscle, bone, nerve, artery and vein, as well as, all of our internal organs including the heart, lungs, brain, and spinal cord. The most interesting aspect of the fascial system is that it is not just a system of separate coverings. It is actually one continuous structure that exists from head to toe without interruption. In this way, you can begin to see that each part of the entire body is connected to every other part by the fascia, like the yarn in a sweater.
Trauma, inflammatory responses, and/or surgical procedures create Myofascial restrictions that can produce tensile pressures of approximately 2,000 pounds per square inch on pain-sensitive structures that do not show up in many of the standard tests (x-rays, myelograms, CAT scans, electromyography, etc.) A high percentage of people suffering from pain and/or lack of motion may be having fascial problems, but are not diagnosed.
Energy artist, Soul Coach, Advanced Energy Healer and originator of The Initiatory Journey To Awaken Your Sacred Masculine.
I am clairvoyant and medical intuitive, being born highly empathic. Having studied and practiced a wide array of alternative healing and consciousness growth modalities for over 35 years, I have been developing my innate intuitive and healing abilities to assist those I work with.
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