Recovery

Hi hi beauty! 🫶🏼 Welcome to this week’s blog!✨

After moments of stagnancy, I find my body craves movement. 

I got hit with my first flu since starting an immunosuppressant and it was no joke. I am only now, 5 weeks later, feeling like myself again. The most challenging part was the congestion. Being sick is one thing, but not being able to breathe out of the nose for weeks is another. 

In that time, I was not only unable to mediate, I was unable to sing comfortably. One thing about me is, I am always singing. Singing brings me so much comfort and joy, so not being able to do that freely was an interesting experience. I discovered I am kind of obsessed with my gravelly voice (think Pheobe Buffay when she got sick that one time-you know the one: And I’m still waiting for my paper mache man. Thank you my babies!). At the same time, it was painful, so even though I loved it I had to say “See ya!” to that option. I recorded a few videos, so I’ll always remember those times.

So what did I do in the time that I was sick? You guessed it, I rested. Luckily, the first week, which was the only time I was bedridden, I was on vacation from my 9-5. Plus, I was able to cancel my trip early enough to get reimbursed all my ticket fees. That was all thanks to intuition.

The night before I got sick, I had this overwhelming feeling that I should cancel my bookings and I went back in forth internally since I didn’t have an apparent reason to cancel, other than a feeling. But the feeling didn’t go away that night, so I decided to hear myself out. I figured if I’m feeling so drawn to cancel, I should cancel. Lo and behold, 12 hour later I was the sickest I had ever been. I was sad I couldn’t go sailing (that was the plan for the trip) but even if I still went to California, I would have been stuck in the hotel and would have risked getting others sick in the process. The financial aspect would have taken a hit too, as the night I cancelled was the last night before I lost the money. All of this to say, I am grateful I trusted my gut (Crohn’s pun, gotta love it) and allowed myself to stay home and rest when my body needed it. 

This week marked not only the beginning of feeling like myself again, but also a time of discovery! I stumbled across a new style of movement that I am so in love with so far: QiYoga. I did not search for this, it just happened across my feed and I felt drawn to do some research into it. From what I know so far, the purpose is to stretch, strengthen, and activate the body’s internal energy for healing. Which is absolutely perfect for me in this time! If you have never tried this, I highly recommend giving it a try! The stretches alone are a game changer. Then you have the energy work, which is a beautiful, healing work. My body and mind are feeling more activated as I continue this practice. I follow LuChin on YouTube, if you want to join on my journey!

Each video starts with happy bouncing, and wow does that feel good! I never had considered doing such a thing, but now I do it every morning. It’s a great was to wake up and start the day with high vibrations. 

When you give it a try, let me know what you think and how you feel! I am very excited to see how I feel after doing more practices and am looking forward to whatever other new experiences the universe is going to send my way. 

I love you dearly and as always, be well my friend.

xoxo, Grace