04/15/2025
🙋🏻♀️ What would you do on your quest for health? 💪
👩🏻 I personally have tried just about everything from eastern to western medicines ⚕️
✅ Today was another one of those days.
💫 Today I got stem cell injections.
📆 And after suffering with chronic pain for over 40 years, I had very much been looking forward to this. 🌟Afterall, this would be another huge stepping stone on my path, my quest, to health and wholeness.
🎭 But, much to my surprise, it felt a little like a setback....It was not explained to me, or more likely, I chose not to hear, that I will need to take some time off from lifting weights and basically any exercise at all for several weeks.
👨🏼⚕️ As the doctor explained, I have to give this time. In these early weeks of regenerative healing my body will create a “scaffold” for the cells to bind to. The cells are just starting to form and divide, so I must be cautious and avoid joint overloading or compression. As my body works to build new tissue, I will need to allow the cells to settle.
👂🏻As I sat there listening, in this moment of excitement for what the future holds after the injections, I thought, “This is no big deal, I can manage this, I will figure this out (never mind the fact that I teach yoga and fitness classes for a living lol).”
🌳 So, I had a decision to make. Will I choose drama and fall into the roll of victim? Or will I choose to be the he**in in my own story?
🤩 I choose me. I’m choosing to take control of the things I can and to let go of the things I cannot control. I will approach and take care of the nutrition piece of my health with love and compassion. I will rest as much as possible. I will follow the doctor’s protocol around exercise. I will figure out work arounds for teaching my students and clients.
✝️ These are the things that are in my control. The rest is in God’s control. How can I be so bold as to expect Him to do His part if I do not do mine?
🙏 God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.