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Recovering from stress induced GERD

  • Persian Saffron Gold Rice
  • Grilled fish tacos
  • calamari is a no, no BUT good oil makes a diff.
  • ???
  • BentoSprout bento
  • Love her bento:)
  • persimmons and pomegranate trees bearing fruits … orange and red hues are beautiful:)

What are the symptoms of GERD aka GastroEsophageal Reflux Disease?

(Per Mayo Clinic)

  • A burning sensation in your chest (heartburn), usually after eating.
  • A burniing sensation – PAIN! – at night and morning.
  • nausea and stomach cramps
  • Chest pain
  • Difficulty swallowing
  • Regurgitation of food or sour liquid (acid!)
  • Sensation of a lump in your throat – a sore throat
  • Chronic cough
  • Laryngitis
  • New or worsening asthma
  • Disrupted sleep

If you read the above, you will notice how these symptoms can lead the sufferers further into the rabbit hole … the chest pain will trigger heart disease suspcions, thus EKG and related tests are recommended; Coughs and sore throat might be confused with Covid symptoms; same for asthma; difficulty swallowing means that you will be eating less and less, thus, in my case losing 25lbs at the worst time; neasea and stomach aches and pains will lead to further tests, such as colonoscopy after endoscopy.

Then, the worst of all – Disrupted Sleep – with lack of satisfying sleep, one’s mood suffers; making one vulnearble to stress, furthering the symptoms of GERD until it seems like a tenable predicament one is caught in, stuck and unable to get out of. When one is already stressed, disruptive sleep due to buring sensations in the chest region, can further aggrevate the level of anxieties and shake one’s confidence in one’s belief in her/his own body and mind.

So in the midst of all this suffering, what helps? I will share the roadmap of healing that worked for me in hopes that others suffering with the same and similar condition can gain some insights. I bring up GERD here but it can be for any kind of GI troubles we live with that these tools in my toolkit may help with – it’s been reported that the Pandemic restrictions and changes have brought on unusual rise in GI-related diseases as mentioned by the healthcare professionals. Besides, all these tools can be a preventitive measures – regrettably I did not practice – becasue well, the excuse we all have – “because I was too busy for self-care” causing much distress of late.

Suffering and misery loves company? Anyway, the good news, I think is that …

You are not alone.

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Beautiful Rituals Beautiful Things Healthy Food

Chai making kinda marmalade orangey day

Weekly chai making brings JOY:) Even the morning eggs are popping with colors … then, there’s that marmalade spread … it’s going to be a good week as I choose to make it so.

It’s called a “conscious” and “intentional” living to not waste a day in our limited lifetime on this earth.

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Beautiful People Beautiful Places

Getting over The Fear

As I reread this shared by so many these days as the travel bug returns… Friends have gone off to see the beauties of the Autumn foliage – this is a vast country… while Far East remains … far; Still the Universe awaits daring your guts and courage… or foolishness as we dream of planning all the possibilities to hug those endearing ones you miss. Hope is not lost on us humans – we will resume our travels. In time to see our loved ones; in hopes that they will still recognize and know who we are … that we exisit in them and they are in us… and that is, eternal:

Try to travel,

otherwise you may become racist, and you may end up believing that your skin is the only one to be right, that your language is the most romantic and that you were the first to be the first.

Travel, because if you don’t travel then your thoughts won’t be strengthened, won’t get filled with ideas. Your dreams will be born with fragile legs and then you end up believing in tv-shows, and in those who invent enemies that fit perfectly with your nightmares to make you live in terror.

Travel, because travel teaches to say good morning to everyone regardless of which sun we come from.

Travel, because travel teaches to say goodnight to everyone regardless of the darkness that we carry inside

Travel, because traveling teaches to resist, not to depend, to accept others, not just for who they are but also for what they can never be. To know what we are capable of, to feel part of a family beyond borders, beyond traditions and culture. Traveling teaches us to be beyond.

Travel, otherwise you end up believing that you are made only for a panorama and instead inside you there are wonderful landscapes still to visit.

– Gio Evan, poet and songwriter. (translated from Italian)

Gio Evan, Poet & Songwriter (translated from Italian)

Still … traveling into the deeper layers of your own inner landscape is not all bad; provided we take the time to check in with others who provide the safety net we all need especially in this time of turmoil.