No blog for a while…just been busy. So here’s my update:
My day off overlaps with one of the other naturopaths here (Katrina from Australia) and we are becoming good friends so we’ve been hanging out on the beach on our day off with her kite- boarding instructor boyfriend and all of his cute kite boarding friends. I’m going to take a lesson next week!! Something I have wanted to do for years.
Have been doing some terrific counseling work with patients and feel extremely fulfilled with my job by how helpful I have been in people's lives. I had this 59 year old very proper English man today crying in my office about some unresolved issue he is still carrying around about his mother, who passed away years ago. I helped him realize how important it is to bring this kind of pain up and out of his body, and explained by just ignoring it does not mean it goes away. Tears just started running down his face as I talked to him…very healing for him, then worked on ideas for how he continue this process once he returns home. Then had a cocaine addict in my office who was convinced that now that he feels so good after living healthfully for one week that he’ll never touch the stuff again….explained to him what ‘pink cloud’ means, and then helped him understand the importance of getting continued help when he gets home. It feels fantastic to be interacting with people on such a deep and healing level. I love it.
But I’m already ready for my vacation time! My body is not functioning so well in multiple areas. I found a low key vegetarian, yoga, detox place on the beach about 5 hours south of here on a little island…I’m headed there for a week next month!
Now here is the biggest news yet…I’m in town on my day off last week and just happened to mention that I had diabetes to this group I was talking to. This guy says he is the CEO of a stem cell research company and that they have cured diabetics. Within seconds of listening to his explanation, I just lost it and started crying. He gave me his card and I am headed up to Bangkok next tuesday to meet with the head doctor. I have such a thick wall around myself in regards to getting excited about this kind of stuff, so yes its exciting, but I’ll know more next week. I prefer to be skeptical because i’ve become excited and disappointed too many damn times in my life. So we’ll see… and I’ll let you all know.
Got off work today, took a dip in the ocean, had dinner in the staff cafeteria, now writing to you and off to bed! And that’s my quick and to the point update. Love to you all! Jody :-)
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