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Welcome to the monthly Freedom From Illness
wholistic newsletter from Russell Louie and Margaret Auld-Louie at Optimum
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Current News
Pet Food RecallsThe pet food recalls continue. The best "wholistic" suggestion to prevent danger to your pet is — STOP feeding dry kibble dog food. In our "wholistic" opinion, dry kibble dog food is the least nutritious form of food to feed a carnivore. Furthermore, a majority of all pet food recalls is with dry food. Canned food, freeze-dried food and raw food have a much lower percentage of recalls. To read more on our "wholistic" philosophy on pet food, go to the following links:
Pet Food Recall
What Pet Food Companies Don't Want You to Know
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********************************************************************************* LORAZEPAM: Avoiding Addiction, Part 3by Russell Louie
In
Part 1
of this Lorazepam series I discussed why, as a wholistic scientist, I
needed to take the highly addictive, anti-anxiety drug, Lorazepam. I
discussed the “wholistic”
The last mTBI therapy tools I used to avoid
Lorazepam addiction were daily coping skills from
TBI
workshops, seminars, books and therapists. One needs to
literally
Because I spent so much time going to doctors,
therapists and holistic practitioners, my working hours were limited.
As a small business
owner I learned that one cannot please everyone all the time.
That is a hard one when a small
Would it not be wonderful if one could avoid
all disappointments in life? With my mTBI I would have anxiety over the
slightest disappointment. Like when I lost a customer’s order, I was
running late for a meeting, my favorite restaurant was closed or while
cooking dinner I realized I forgot to buy a major ingredient in a dish.
From
I may spend the next 5-10 years recovering from the mTBI. Like everyone else I measured my progress using the Western medical paradigms of:
In order not to be disappointed, I had to
release all
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For
a very revealing report on pet food, click the link:
modalities of acupuncture, Chinese herbs,
rewire
the brain to develop new habits for dealing with daily stress. I
attended a 10-week Grief and Loss workshop where I learned what a mTBI
was, how it affected my brain’s function and how I could cope with my
deficiencies and impairment. A mTBI can be just as traumatic as a death
in the family or divorce but an mTBI survivor also has the handicap of
their brain not functioning like before or as expected. Therefore, new
tools, coping skills and life adjustments must be made that most people,
conventional doctors and even holistic practitioners are not aware of.
This MTBI experience has opened up a new perspective for my
In
an effort to get everything done, I was always rushing around the
office/house. I would literally turn around so fast, I would kick the
dog or step on a cat (we have three). Since it is impossible to get
everything done (even for a person without a mTBI), I learned to block
out time for my mTBI treatment first, then prioritize my daily tasks and
do only the absolutely urgent and important tasks first. Whatever time
is left over is spent on everything else. Because not everything was
getting done, this led to another lesson.
my
mTBI perspective, I was a total failure or the ‘world was going to end’.
The compounding effect of each unmet expectation resulted in depression
by the end of the day. In order to never be disappointed, I had to
release all my expectations by saying, “It is what it is,” “I am doing
the best I can,” and practiced the following MTBI coping skills:
Petting
my pets. My TBI therapist told me one cannot express love and feel
fear at the same time since they are opposites. Feeling fear is
projecting into the future. So, by petting our pets I am brought
back into the present moment by expressing my love for them, which
is very grounding and beneficial for both of us.
expectations
of how long my mTBI recovery will take and stop comparing my progress
with others. One of the best “wholistic” paradigms I now practice comes
from Brugh Joy, a psychotherapist. In his book, “Joy’s Way,” he wrote: ‘make
no comparisons, make no judgments, delete the need to understand.’
(At least from a Western allopathic medical perspective.) These same
principles have given me a new “wholistic,”
compassionate perspective when coaching clients with complex or
difficult circumstances. If you want better results than you have been
getting in yourself and your pets, you will have to do something
different than you are currently doing. Try this new, totally
"wholistic" paradigm for transforming your or your pet’s illness into
Freedom from Illness.
