Hello friends. This will be the blog that takes me back to the beginning of where this journey had started. Which now I realize was also my first step to finding invaluable information that I would be building my returning health upon. Funny how when you are almost at the end of another chapter in your life, you view the journey much differently.

Before I begin, I want to make sure that I make a very important point clear. I believe that we can benefit, and I have benefited from the best of both worlds; Western Medicine and Alternative Holistic Medicine. I believe that if we can embrace what is good in both medicines, we could achieve sooo much more then what we are capable of right now. Western Medicine has advanced beyond any ones expectations being relatively young in the aspect of traditional medicine. Whereas Traditional Holistic Practices date further back then we even have humanely documented. So it would be hard to not give Holistic Medicine a little soapbox to stand upon. I truly believe I would not be this far advanced in my recovery if I did not blend the two medical backgrounds.

One more little point before I jump in is that, there is a place in our medicinal cabinets for Tylenol, Advil, Gravol, OTC products and prescription medications. I am thankful for the formulation of all of these medications, they have helped myself and obviously many others throughout the world. We are very lucky to live in a generation where there are an abundance of options. I’m only saying… that we should take a look at ALLLL of the options. You may be surprised where you find your answers.

Now lets begin.

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Ok, well let me give you some idea of things you will be reading on this blog site. First, if you haven’t read the “About Charzie” and the “Disclaimer” please take 5 minutes to read it. It will give you some back ground info and a little legal “what you do with this info is completely your decision.” I am a fountain of knowledge wishing to over flow my findings into your lives and hoping some of my waves will be able to wash away your pain. It’s up to you which wave you jump over and which wave you dive into.

I hope to be able to give you the information to reclaim your life again in layman’s terms, so that important life changing information is not lost in medical jargon. I will post many titles of books I have read that could be helpful to you as we go along, the vitamins and supplements that will change your life, recipes for juices, smoothies, and helpful snacks that are soo simple and like a gift from the heavens to give new life into your bodies and organs. I will let you know about how weather patterns can affect our circulatory systems, sleeping patterns, facts about our food supply and simple non-exerting easy and enjoyable exercise tips to give you energy. Yes, seriously you will be amazed at how simple and easy it is, (and tasty), to implement these small changes into your lives that will make your insides feel rejuvenated like a newborn baby… ready to take the challenges that will come your way for the many decades ahead of you…with baby steps.

I will not only have information about nutrition but also about why your body is doing what it does. How your insides are connected, so in order to fix one organ you will need to clean up another and “Abracadabra” it will feel like your Fairy Godmother has finally woken herself up, dusted her little wrinkly butt off from her slumber and given you a major whack with the gift stick to a new lease on life! POOF!!!! Taking years off your life again. Your organs will thank you, your vascular/circulatory system will thank you, (you know those hollow spaghetti like tubes that carry all that red liquid that mosquitos love so much throughout your insides and occasionally spills out into the outside..that’s usually an owie!),  your skin will thank you, your family and friends will be shouting cheers from the roof tops about your recovery.      It will happen.

The foods that I am now eating cost only a few dollars and are worth gold. I will blog about many different foods, vitamins and minerals and the important role they play to heal our bodies and help reduce pain.  I will help and encourage you to stick to whatever new recovery road you have chosen to try to help your body help itself. I am a little Energizer Bunny on BUST!!…with loads of encouragement, tenderness, a sympathetic ear, and an uncanny yet probably excessive need to research everything. I know it is not easy but friends listen… IT IS WORTH IT!! To be whole again, is like a gift that no lottery can ever give, and if you have a great support system then use it and if not then let me help you to not slide back into old habits. I will encourage and listen, and help and research the heck out of whatever topics I can that are relevant to the cause.  I will give it more then my best because I know how precious it is to see the daylight again and to not feel like I’m letting others down or like I’m on that slippery slope to addiction. You need a light at the end of the tunnel… LET ME BE YOUR LIGHT.

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Wow, what an exciting day today.  I am launching my new blog site, “Charzie’s Wellness Garden” to inform the world about my journey out of a nightmare that imprisoned my  life for many, many years.

Living through a debilitating illness, Chronic Headaches…Vascular/Vestibular Migraines has given me a new appreciation on life no matter the circumstance or weather and trust me the weather where I am is not nice on a good day..lol.  My blogs will be about the information I have learned along the way back to recovery that many would never know and would never be told about by most modern doctors today. Many pain sufferers, no matter the ailment more then likely know the routine of more meds, more pain killers, stronger meds, stronger pain killers constantly being thrown their way as a bandaid to get them through their days. It does not work and this method only leads to addiction.  I know this first hand.

I am an ordinary gal with extraordinary research abilities, a quiet “girl next door” who wanted her life back and found little help through modern medicine. Well yes, it helped but it also made things worse. I had no other choice but to take matters into my own hands and find a way back to the days of waking and living without major pain, gall bladder attacks and liver damage, so I wouldn’t have to keep pushing myself to just  complete mundane tasks….

                                                               AND I DID IT!

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