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The Path to Cure: The Whole Art of Healing
by Allyson A. McQuinn
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Journey Begins
I left Patty’s office on October 30, 1998 with a commitment
to my own healing and two more dropper bottles. I was instructed
to write down my chief complaints and also a full timeline of all
the emotional and physical traumas that had ever occurred to me
over my lifetime. We would use this tool to map out my treatment.
I had been to see therapists many times during my life, but I had
never sat down and encapsulated the whole mess of afflictions in
one embodied exercise before.
I had been the type of person who could remember vividly back into
my childhood, including the taste of the paint on the corners of
my crib. I still had memories of what it was like to be a baby,
standing in my crib and looking at the lamb wallpaper, my white
dresser and the little blue lamb lamp, the curtains pulled and having
just awoken from an afternoon nap. This is by no means a requirement
for effective Heilkunst treatment as even those individuals who
have been adopted are all effectively treated; however, I have had
distinct glimpses similar to this one throughout my childhood. Through
disease, I had almost entirely lost this awareness.
So I sat down one evening and wrote out my present chief complaints.
I included the Hypoglycemia that plagued me. Often my blood sugar
would dip so low that I would break into a cold sweat, feeling panicky
and faint. I also documented the chronic fatigue and muscle aches.
Every time a low-pressure system moved in, I was in bed with a headache
that felt as if there were vice grips on my temples. I had shingles
on my right shoulder, which further manifested as a patch of rashy
blisters and the mirror image of the same on the upper right side
of my chest. The nerves in my right arm were always numb and tingling
and I would often drop things, as I could not fully sense when I
had picked them up or not. I always had canker sores inside my bottom
lip and psoriasis on the perimeter of my scalp. The doctor had labeled
me with premenstrual syndrome and dysmenorrhea in my early twenties.
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