BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

The Body's Ways to Express Traumatic Memories & Feelings That Can Find No Other Outlet I am totally disabled ( though I often look fine ) and the crash is always inevitable. My M.S. is in flare after every activity and all the overlapping syndromes that come with it. Sleep can't come fast enough - but the guilt & blame are right on top of me immediately. I lay in bed - which is where I am most of the time; upset that my children don't have a better put-together mother; and I think about what brought me to this point. I was exposed to a lot of toxins at my last job and coupled with a lifetime of emotional verbal, psychological, sexual & physical abuse, repressing my anger and "not telling" ( aka - being a good girl ) -- my immune system snapped. My body snapped along with it. Pain for me is endless & relentless. I spend a lot of the time I am not with my kids - coping with what illness is doing to, has done to or may do to me. I get so fed up wit...

B"H Fragments --------- We are all fragments of greater souls, and those souls fragments of even more lofty ones, and so on with those--until we all link back to the one primordial soul: The soul of Adam. None of us is complete. No one can stand on his or her own. What one is lacking the other fulfills, where one excels, another is wanting. Only together can we find oneness in our own selves. Only together can we be a fit vessel for the One Above to be revealed. True Love --------- The souls are all one. Only the bodies divide us. Therefore , one who places the body before the spirit can never experience true love or friendship . PLEASE CLICK HERE TO JBLOG ME

New Study Links Fibromyalgia to Reduced Brain Dopamine ORANGE, Ca - The National Fibromyalgia Association today announced that a new study published in the January issue of The Journal of Pain provides new scientific evidence demonstrating for the first time that there is a fundamental difference between the brains of fibromyalgia patients and healthy individuals not afflicted with the disorder. The study’s lead author, Dr. Patrick Wood, is a nationally recognized researcher and authority on the cause and treatment of fibromyalgia. This groundbreaking study supports Dr Wood’s “Dopamine Theory of Fibromyalgia,” which proposes that people with fibromyalgia produce less dopamine—a natural chemical in the body that functions as a neurotransmitter—in the very areas of the brain where dopamine is needed to process painful bodily sensations. The reduction in the activity of dopamine neurons, believed to result from a combination of environmental factors, including chronic stress, as well as ...