I have a growing anticipation just to jump to the end and give you all the results but I have to pace myself because you really need to know the ins and outs of the steps I changed along the way. So lets get to it.

While chatting during one of my Alternative Therapy appointments, my Holistic Doctors asked how I felt about trying acupuncture. I commented I had been toiling with thoughts of starting this therapy but I was a great big, cry, baby about needles. His and her calming nature just put me at ease about the whole therapy and they only said may be a few sentences, but feeling completely trusting in their motivation, within a moment I said yes, and an appointment was set up before I even left the office. Instead of being scared I became excited, and I truly cannot give the exact reason that changed my frame of thinking other then total trust in the persons suggesting it. I’m still a little amazed at the change that happened. When I say I had a fear of needles, I should say, I had a total terror, trembling, cold footed, chicken ass, dreaded, despairing fear of needles. Yeah that better describes it…lol

I thought when my family doctor finds out I finally said yes, I think he might even kick me in the pants for not listening to him in the first place. Not that I didn’t trust his idea, for heavens sake I trusted him soo much that I filled my body with whatever prescription he handed my way that was full of, what I felt, toxic chemicals, and took happily and willingly. I believe it was just the different feeling from western medicine to this calm, inducing, alternative, medicinal therapy. Like the difference from eating the hottest, bad boy weapon grade, burn a whole through your digestive track, flame throwing hot wings to a nice lukewarm bowl of chicken noodle soup…it was just different.

Well with any new suggestion, a flurry of brain synopses must befall while turning the pages of a crisp new publication…aka…time to buy another book!! I found books on Chinese Traditional Acupuncture Therapy, Acupuncture Pressure Points, and just to mix it up a bit a book on Reflexology. Do you believe me now when I say I am a dweebie, zealous, bookworm junkie!! I own it baby!!! By the time my appointment came around the following week I was a spastic, ninnyhammer…a nervous wreck! With a deep breath and my heart beating out of my chest, I endured the most pain releasing, deeply relaxing treatment, I have ever experienced. I found my new addiction. Other then adjectives it seems, oh my I just reread the first few paragraphs, that’s a lot of adjectives, too funny.

Even though I came armed with the knowledge of how the procedure will occur, I was beyond amazed at how she knew exactly where to tap that tiny needle into. It felt like the needle completely opened whatever blocked pain nerve she tapped into. The contents mystically poured out through the needle leaving my body with this new open nerve that could now do its job more reverently.   She treated my migraines, liver and sinuses and I was left as a puddle on the table, beyond relaxed, mouth agape at what I had just experienced. Hook, line and sinker, I was served.

I left the office that day and when I got into my truck, I had tears of joy. It was the first actual time in years I didn’t feel my brain. I had to try to calm myself because I was afraid my joyful emotion would bring a headache back on but it didn’t. I texted my husband and said I don’t fell my brain for the first time in years and I cried. I’m tearing up right now just typing how I felt. The pain free feeling lasted 3 days after the first time I had acupuncture, it felt like a miracle.

Needles to say, hehehe. Needless to say, lol, I went back every week for almost 3 months I think. The release in my head that the acupuncture gave me lasted all week, from week to week within 2 appointments and even the rock in my stomach started to feel much smaller. There are no words to explain it, it just happened. Eventually the acupuncture sessions lessoned and my head, liver and sinuses felt deflated. I haven’t had an acupuncture appointment for at least 7-9 weeks now, and I am doing quite well, but I do miss the release it gave me and I will go back probably every 3 months for the next year or two because I like the feeling it gives me, until the day comes that I may not need to anymore.

During one of these later acupuncture appointments, I finally got the nerve to ask about the liver cleanse I have been contemplating. One time before with my naturopath we had discussed it, and since the acupuncture was going so well it just seemed like a natural progression. My acupuncturist was in complete agreement and gave me the information she had and a textbook (cause they are beginning to know my bookwormish ways), that she thought could be helpful to me and encouraged me to do the liver cleanse sooner then later due to the timing of the year, which was a good time for cleanses…the spring. Hmm that just gave me another idea for another blog…lol.

So off I went armed with my new textbook, my liver cleanse information and a big butterfly in my stomach…I thought, ”Oh Char what have you gotten yourself into now?”…lol.