I hope everyone is doing well. This year has started full on into it as I busily work on writing the content for my new Foods for Fibromyalgia website in addition to our main site and along with running a busy practice.
I wanted to take this opportunity to thank Mardy for inviting me to post here on LUMIGRATE.com and for setting up a section especially for this purpose and for me to help with nutritional aspects and medicinal properties of foods to help with fibromyalgia. I am honored and privileged to participate and to help wherever I can. I love the work that I do and especially with helping people to fight this battle called fibromyalgia.
There is quite a lot of evidence to show that fibromyalgia can often be triggered by stress and can represent a major disorder of the central nervous system and in particular the autonomic nervous system. I have put up a blog posting about it for those who would like to read it here: blog.nutri-living.com/ [1]
I will be posting something each week to help and as new research and information becomes available. Please feel free to respond with any questions or comments and its my pleasure to be of assistance.
To your good health,
Deirdre
Deirdre Rawlings, ND, PhD advises clients in her local area of Atlanta, Georgia, USA in person as well as remotely, both individuals and groups/corporations. While she has a focus on advising those with fibromyalgia or developing symptoms with a focus on nutrition as solution for wellness, her expertise is global and 'wholistic'. Her complete information can be found at http://www.foodsforfibromyalgia.com/ [2]. She is the author of "Foods that Help Win the Battle Against Fibromyalgia"; check out Amazon.com and Barnes and Nobel.
Links:
[1] http://blog.nutri-living.com/?p=302
[2] http://www.foodsforfibromyalgia.com/
[3] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/what-does-stress-have-do-fibromyalgia#comment-387
[4] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/what-does-stress-have-do-fibromyalgia#top
[5] http://www.lumigrate.com/user/login?destination=node/270%23comment-form
[6] http://www.lumigrate.com/user/register?destination=node/270%23comment-form
[7] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/what-does-stress-have-do-fibromyalgia#comment-388
[8] http://twitter.com/lumigrate
[9] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/what-does-stress-have-do-fibromyalgia#comment-396
Comments
Thank you Dr. Raw lings.
For years I did not realize that the foods I was eating, although healthy foods, could be causing my fibromyalgia to be more problematic than it would have been had I avoided or limited those foods.
Thanks for taking your limited, precious, free time to devote to educating others. That is an unselfish gift to humanity and I applaud you and all the others who contribute to Lumigrate for your service.
I look forward to reading everything you write.
Alice
Alice Franklin was raised on a sandy beach in Point Clear, AL and lived along the Gulf Coast from Texas to Alabama in her youth, graduating from Fairhope High School on Mobile Bay. Prior to becoming disabled due to severe spine problems, she worked her way into management and purchasing positions in industrial manufacturing and art industries. She worked her way into Lumigrate unknowingly by impressively writing at Lent 2010 about utilizing her religious and spiritual beliefs with chronic pain/disease management (she has had fibromyalgia and chronic myofascial pain for decades); it turns out she holds the priesthood office of elder in her church and became active again in this office in May 2010 and has been pastor or copastor in previous churches. We are so very proud to have her words and thoughts gracing our 'pages' of this website and look forward to what the future holds for her.
We are honored and privileged to have you! Thank you so very much.
I've just followed the link you gave and have to say I think it's one of the best capsulizations of stress and fibromyalgia I've read ANYWHERE EVER. I'm so very glad that we've found each other, Deirdre... as one of my core concepts with Lumigrate is to not recreate any wheels if there is a wheel out there that works. And in your case, it not only 'works', it's exceptionally RIGHT ON, and so completely fits with what I see here in Grand Junction with the IMC seminars that I've been attending since we formed it two years ago. (and the previous months when I got the idea to 'do a website with this information I'm seeing). I'm only one woman and had a limited amount of resources just like everyone (time, energy and money are resources) and so to find another 'one woman' to combine with the 'guys' you see in the videos on Lumigrate.com .... and ALL the other women (and guys) who are literally trickling into Lumigrate each day now to contribute. It's quite 'substantial'. And as many know, "integrative medicine" believes that food is your first medicine, and then you go up from there with supplementation, herbs, hormones, working on the energy systems of the body (which draws in acupuncture as well as concepts related to visualization and dance even, as we'll learn from Kohava Howard when she returns from a family emergency in Canada), medications only as necessary and as little as possible. So to have YOU with US, doing this work together is truly 'SYNERGY'.
You're a blessing - (as is facebook so that we connected, eh?) and I look forward to a long road ahead of us that will lead to such improved health for so many.
With Love and Thanks -
Mardy
Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [8] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!
This is great!!!... I read the blog - Awesome stuff! and very interesting! I am very happy that I can read up on that and try to find certain things to help me manage! :)
Thank you Dr. Rawlings and of course Mardy for bringing this all together!
Faith Young is the pseudonym used by one of Lumigrate's longest content providers, as she began writing at the age of 24 in Lumigrate's FIRST year on the Internet! In real life, this young woman who has been living with FMS for many years received her Bachelors degree in Health Education from Montclair State University and graduated Magna Cum Laude. To further her career, she is currently working on two Masters degrees, one in Counseling from Seton Hall University. Since she is a 6th grade health teacher working to educate students on the importance of being physically and emotionally healthy, we found it best to provider her with a pseudonym of her choice and "Faith Young" is what resonated. In the long run, this very real young woman has faith and hopes be able to use health education in counseling and provide up to date information at Lumigrate which will appeal to the younger people 'out there' and bring them 'in here' to Lumigrate in addition to our more mature adults. In addition, she is a LumiLiaison for Lumigrate.com and helps facilitate Lumigrate FMS fan pages on facebook. Search on Lumigrate and Lumigrate: Fibromyalgia and join us related to general and/or FMS specific information; Like us and those #s count with our advertisers and supporters and also allow YOU to keep up with what we're up to!