Mind Medicine, Soul Medicine
Sometimes you have to reach a low so devastating that you're forced to react & change before you can reach a real breakthrough. I've hit that point - I'm currently in the midst of what is possibly the hardest part of my life so far. If it were a U-shaped curve I would be just to the right of the very lowest point, just where it starts to slope back upward. I actually don't think I was ever at the very top, at least not in this lifetime. That's the goal.
I'm halfway through Gabby Bernstein's newest book Super Attractor, and I've felt a dramatic shift. I'm a pharmacist and I've been dealing with Hashimoto's Disease, diagnosed a few years ago. I had been working on starting a platform to educate about thyroid disease and share my own experiences with it, but I didn't feel passionate about it. It showed. I would make a post here and there but I never felt like it was truly my calling. I didn't feel my creativity flowing through it. In Chapter 8 of Super Attractor Gabby writes:
I realized I'm not passionate about thyroid studies and Hashimoto's. I'm certainly interested in it, but it doesn't excite me. It's not something I would choose to write about whether or not anyone was reading. I don't know why I didn't think of it before but making a blog about psychiatry medicine and mental health is where I feel the light within me shine. It the area that I would just love to give to others whether or not I receive anything in return. I have endless ideas about what I can share and bring to others - pulling from what I know now and sharing the journey along my own path of recovery. I want to share what I learned from internships in outpatient psychiatry, inpatient psych, psychiatric institutions. I want to share my story of anxiety, depression, panic attacks. I want to share the books I read and the tools I've used to reach a more joyful state. I hope you'll join me.
I'm halfway through Gabby Bernstein's newest book Super Attractor, and I've felt a dramatic shift. I'm a pharmacist and I've been dealing with Hashimoto's Disease, diagnosed a few years ago. I had been working on starting a platform to educate about thyroid disease and share my own experiences with it, but I didn't feel passionate about it. It showed. I would make a post here and there but I never felt like it was truly my calling. I didn't feel my creativity flowing through it. In Chapter 8 of Super Attractor Gabby writes:
"Tap into the inspiration behind your desire, and see how that inspiration serves the world. In your journal make a list of all the ways that your desire lights you up and how your light brings service to others. Remember that there is service in your joy as long as it doesn't come at another's expense. Your desire for joy is not selfish. Your joy is a gift to the world and to everyone around you."
I realized I'm not passionate about thyroid studies and Hashimoto's. I'm certainly interested in it, but it doesn't excite me. It's not something I would choose to write about whether or not anyone was reading. I don't know why I didn't think of it before but making a blog about psychiatry medicine and mental health is where I feel the light within me shine. It the area that I would just love to give to others whether or not I receive anything in return. I have endless ideas about what I can share and bring to others - pulling from what I know now and sharing the journey along my own path of recovery. I want to share what I learned from internships in outpatient psychiatry, inpatient psych, psychiatric institutions. I want to share my story of anxiety, depression, panic attacks. I want to share the books I read and the tools I've used to reach a more joyful state. I hope you'll join me.
This is 2019 me, ready to share the light within.
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