The Allergy Kid Lyfe

26/03/2020

This is a letter from a gal with a chronic illness to the rest of the world! A letter to help you understand why we must abide by what seem like drastic and barbaric social distancing and isolation laws our governments have been putting into place over the past couple of weeks. I get it,... When there is a deadly virus sweeping the globe that is somewhat invisible it is hard to comprehend let alone accept such laws. [ 997 more words ]
https://theallergykidlyfe.wordpress.com/2020/03/26/a-letter-to-the-world/

This is a letter from a gal with a chronic illness to the rest of the world! A letter to help you understand why we must abide by what seem like drastic and barbaric social distancing and isolation…

16/02/2020

January 2020.
I took a risk. A big risk.
I gambled my health in a very big way and mentally (and surprisingly physically) it was soo darn worth it!
2019 was slowly ruining me. My health took a turn swiftly south just before winter even started and it just didn't stop.....weeks upon weeks of throat and mouth ulcers making it impossible to drink water let alone swallow food without tears streaming down my face. Glands swollen like ping pong balls for months on end with razor blades for a throat, I was a complete and utter mess and yet still so grateful that I've come so far. I had the kind of fatigue return that lead to persistent blackouts and moments of passing out with unbelievable muscle weakness that left my legs shaking to climb stairs. By the time December came around I was vomiting almost every other day. I don't know how I did it, I tweaked a few of my treatment regimes, upped my caloric intake, slowed down my detox and somehow managed the impossible! I got myself ready for a return to the Aus Open after a five year hiatus and a three year hiatus of all forms of work!!! At the time a very dumb idea, but also a very necessary step for me to take. I was soo unbelievably broken.
It was hard, passing parasites in the toilets on my meal breaks, working during Melbourne's smoke haze that left me unable to breathe as soon as I stepped outside (thank god for ), mould hits and you know just generally walking more than 500 steps a day!!!!..it was an effort but with some incredibly supportive friends I was welcomed back into the Jan Fam with open arms. I made sooo many new friends, rekindled old friendships and pushed my body in ways I never thought was possible. It was a month of absolute pure joy, love, complete and utter fatigue, happiness and laughter and a lot of boogies!! It was such a breath of fresh air to be able to be myself for once, not worry about what people are thinking of me and my invisibly debilitating illnesses. I may be ded now with a side of another bout of glandular but Mentally I am so much stronger, I am sooooo much happier and I have a renewed hope for what my future holds this year! @ Australian Open

26/11/2019

Kambô 🐸
- from the depths of the Amazon rainforests comes this incredibly healing and enlightening medicine. One of which I am so incredibly grateful for, particularly now when i know it can so quickly be taken away from me and soo many others.
My heart aches for those who serve and I can only hope that the green light continues to shine bright and protects you with all its might.

17/11/2019

Sometimes it feels like there is a monster in my body, it feels like my blood is boiling and bugs are crawling...I know it’s only temporary and soo grateful that these days are falling but in the moment it’s a tremendous feat for me to even lift my feet. So I wrote a few words, a little poetry if you will, but boy am I glad that a new day has arrived and these feels have sunk back into the trunk that they arrived. 💕💕 @ Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

19/10/2019

Raw, vulnerable, honest, I’m in awe.
It’s not hard to ask are you ok?
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09/10/2019

I’m not even sure how to put this,
It’s something I have sat on for a while now..
6 months to be exact,
6 months since I last sat Kambo with Brad and Carlie at Two wolves One body.
6 months since a media frenzy took over and tore this incredibly healing shamanic medicine to bits and for some reason took along Brad and Carlie who have only ever served with the utmost integrity and regard for safety along with it.
As such, Kambo is now facing a potential permanent ban in not only Victoria and South Australia but Australia wide.

For those of you who don’t know, Kambo is a secretion derived from the Giant green Monkey frog found in the Amazon rainforest. It has been an integral part of my healing journey (having sat with it well over 15+ times) and has always been a modality of healing that I had seen myself continuing long after reaching remission. It has been life saving, and not being able to receive such incredible medicine for the past 6 months has been very much noticeable...not just by me but by my parents and family as well. It’s been devastating (to say the least) for everyone who has been lucky enough to sit with such incredibly professional, nurturing and respectful IAKP practitioners in Brad and Carlie.

Right now kambo is served by Internationally Accredited Kambo Practitioners throughout Australia, all of whom work with the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon to ensure the safest sourcing of the secretion, using best sustainability practices and ensuring ethical practice is maintained. If this ban is implemented it is very likely a Kambo “black market” will ensue making Kambo not only a dangerous practice for all (including myself) but will have potentially disastrous ramifications on the indigenous peoples of the Amazon and their homes.

Continue in comments to see what you can do to help!! 💕💕

03/10/2019

Watching Heal the documentary yesterday really hit home to me once again how the mind can have such a powerful influence on our overall state of wellbeing.
The last few months have been really tough and Whilst I’ve known for a while now that healing emotionally is going to be a key element to my remission...I’ve always chucked it in the “we’ll get to that later” basket, making up a million excuses for why I can’t attend to these needs right now:
- too expensive,
- Too hard
- Too scary
- too hard to find the right person/healer/practitioner to work with,
- too many other issues, ailments and symptoms to sort out
But really, it’s just as important if not more important than the $500 I just spent purchasing supps, meds and binders off iherb that are pretty much just big fat bandaids to me and my weird and wonderful body right now!!! Let’s be honest!! 🤦🏼‍♀️

It can be soo easy to get caught up In trying to fix things That you forget that there really is only one true element to your health that you have complete control over and that is your mind and your heart.
And you know what...you can work on this yourself and it’s completely free...😱
you don’t need to wait for someone to come to you to say “hey let’s work on this together..” yes sometimes you may need outside help to really get down to the nitty gritty; embedded emotional and ancestral trauma but in the meantime there are soo many things you can be doing to help nurture your mind, your thoughts and emotional state and wellbeing:
- meditation
- Positive affirmations
- Gratitude journals
- Visualisation- visualising what being healthy looks like to you and visualising how you are going to do this is sooo incredibly important and powerful!!!
And it’s funny, I teach all this to the women and couples of my childbirth education classes and yet I regularly fail to take my own advice 🤦🏼‍♀️
It’s plain old science (not just voodoo ideas here kids...as much as you might think 😂) that Our subconscious can be rewired if we choose to make the time and work on creating new neural pathways. Pathways that will lead to positive steps to a more healthy and positive state of wellbeing.
So....There you have it (in one very teeny tiny nutshell!!) they say it takes 30 days to change a habit and I want to take a positive step towards healing my past, present and future so here is my pledge...today is the 4th of October and I plan to meditate everyday for the next 30 days even if it is only for 5 minutes cause 5minutes is better than nothing right??
I also plan to start building a vision board cause my vision of what living a healthy and happy life has been pretty cloudy since I let go of my goals 18 months ago (a necessity at the time) but now I think it’s time to rebuild!
I also plan to journal as much as I can but let’s just take each day as it come because sometimes changing all the things at once it’s waay too overwhelming and more hindering than helpful!!! So who’s in??

21/07/2019

High five to me for finishing a 7 day parasite protocol over the full moon!!! 💁🏼‍♀️
Parasites become more active over the full moon so it is the best time to target them and try to remove them from your body!!!
- its a pretty hardcore protocol the one I continue to do and is not for the faint hearted.
- I started the Gubarev protocol in Cyprus last year whereby I completed 3 rounds of raw milk e***as that left me filling the toilet bowl with litres upon litres of worms and slugs from the depths of my intestines...it also left me in the most incredible pain I have ever experienced in my whole life.
- The second dose left me in a state of whole-body muscle contractures for 12 hours..where any slight movement, even just the lift of a finger left me screaming!! So, needless to say I was really quite dreading this week’s de-worming!!!!
But alas, I have come out the other side!!! This time I completed 7 eucalyptus essential oil e***as (another e***a on the gubarev protocol)...the pain was much less but the fatigue and muscle weakness was quite extreme...reminding me of the pre diagnosis days where I would be found asleep half way up the stairs or at the bottom of the shower 🤦🏼‍♀️
- I am really quite proud of myself for completing this week’s treatment protocol...I’d been dreading it and ignoring it for a long time due to being so scarred from the last round of e***as but I couldn’t ignore it any longer...my health has been deteriorating quite rapidly the past couple of months in particular my gut which I was making soo much progress with!!!
- Hopefully all the worms and slugs I released this week will allow my gut to settle once again, continue to heal and allow my body to find a state of calm and tranquility. 🌚
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20/07/2019

Love Your Guts 🦠 -
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Last week I ventured to the Melbourne Museum to explore the “Gut feelings” exhibit. I also took part in Melbourne University’s microbiome study; aiming to create a digital microbe map of Victoria...kinda really cool ay?!!!
“The living microbe map at the Gut Feelings exhibition is a world-first research project that will sample, analyse and map saliva donated by 1000 visitors, to show how, or indeed if, our microbes reflect our daily lives.”
- so spuds get on down to the to check out this pretty cool exhibition and take part in study...doesn’t take long..just 2 minutes of spitting into a little test tube!!!!
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29/06/2019

Breaking the fast.

23/06/2019

Dat full moon though...

12/06/2019

11/06/2019

Purify that s**t!
Spray it everywhere,
Rub it all over,
Bathe in it...actually don’t cause that s**t got eucalyptus and citronella in it and will set your private parts on fire 🔥
Breathe it in...inhale, exhale
Calm your s**t with it,
De-mould your life with it...don’t even know if it’s any good at de-moulding but can’t find my clove oil and I really don’t care right now cause my mould Brian (brian is my brain’s alter mould ego!!) is on fire, my heart is beating 100 miles an hour and every muscle in my body is screaming at me but hell my dog is busting to get to the park and you know what??? that’s probs gonna make me feel heaps better too! So kids...purify your life with some doterra oils and some good old Tuesday morning pull-your-room-apart de-moulding, scrub from ceiling to floor with vinegar and move on!! But also....don’t have a mould allergy and go and do something nice for yourself like purchasing silk pillow slips...it’s just another reminder as to why we can’t have nice things ok?🤦🏼‍♀️
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24/05/2019

This baby got me to last night, protecting me from mould contamination, all the hectic perfumes, and all the bugs that I’m sure my immune system would totally have a field day over and try to suck into my body for a lil dance party! It Didn’t quite stop me from smelling the spliff 🌱 someone decided to light up halfway through haha but you know what else is soo darn great about these bad boys??....you can sing as loud as you want and no one will ever know that you don’t know all the words!!!! 💃💃💃 Yassss Queen 👑
- they also come in some pretty rad patterns including unicorns and cheetahs..which yea I totally just ordered cause I ain’t stopping being allergic to mould or chemicals anytime soon...in fact my throat is starting to swell up these days...far from ideal I know but let’s just hope it doesn’t decide to go full anaphylaxis on me cause ain’t no body got time for dat!!🤟🏽
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23/05/2019

💭Some post-mould, sweaty sleep, hallucinating dreams, insomniac thoughts 💭 ————————————-
Lying here,
Gathering thoughts,
Collecting spoons,
Finding strength,
Praying the suns rays will be enough to get me through for human-ing today just seems all too see-through.
Birds chirping,
Dogs barking,
Cars hustling,
Invisible illness constantly burning.
This not so new world is constantly turning.-
Making life all but a soulful journey.
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22/05/2019

My saviours since 2007.
- whilst a lot of my pain is muscular, spine and rib cage pain is defintley a constant. Even now, when my pain is soooo much better and more controlled, wearing a bra is most of the time unimaginable. It’s restrictive, it hurts like hell even when on the loosest clip, and inhibits my ability to breathe so thankgod for pre-teen style crop tops from - keeping me breathing and pain free since 07!!! 🙏🏻
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21/05/2019

Sometimes I wonder who the one in therapy is?? 🐶
Caption: dog lying on top of owner’s head whilst laying in sauna...Dog incredibly scared of being downstairs alone due to curtains blowing in the wind 🤦🏼‍♀️ Dog is definitley not allowed upstairs 🤷🏼‍♀️
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17/05/2019

Raw Lemon Cheesecake for Mumma’s Day last weekend 🍋🧁🍋🧁🍋🧁🍋🧁🍋🧁🍋🧁🍋🧁🍋🧁🍋🧁🍋🧁🍋🧁🍋🧁🍋🧁🍋🧁🍋🧁🍋🧁🍋
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17/05/2019

Detox, part 3.
- Dry brushing.
Dry brushing is the ancient practice of brushing dry skin with a natural bristle brush in order to stimulate the lymphatic system.
The lymphatic system has no pump to help it flow throughout the body, instead it relies on the movement of our muscles to maintain its motion so that it doesn’t become stagnant, and cause toxic waste to accumulate. - thus a stationary lifestyle will cause such a build up.
- Dry brushing should consist of long strokes across the skin towards the heart starting with your feet and hands and gradually working your way up the body. It is a great for exfoliation and could be combined with gua sha for even greater lymphatic benefits.
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16/05/2019

Saunas have been an integral part of my detox and treatment regime.
For myself I’ve only just started using my far infrared sauna for detox purposes ie; sweating those toxins out baby!! 🌟
Up until now, I have not been able to withstand being in such warm conditions. Due to heart issues caused by Lyme, being In such extreme heat would cause my heart rate to sit above 100 for days post sauna, a very uncomfortable and scary feeling. And whilst I am now starting to tolerate the higher temperatures, the herxeimer reactions are still incredibly strong thus I am limiting my detoxing sauna to once a week until my body starts to settle down become accustom to it all. 💁🏼‍♀️
This means that on the other 6 days of the week I lie in my sauna using it’s near -infrared rays to help activate and improve my body’s mitochondrial function, this allows me to almost reboot for the rest of the day. It’s like my coffee hit except I snooze for an hour or watch the latest episode of GoT!!!! Near infrared saunaing has been an absolute game changer for me and has really helped me get through the days, without it I would have been bed bound for a lot longer!
So here goes, Some hot tips for those keen to get into the infrared sauna-ing:
- Dry scrub before hopping in to your sauna to get your lymphatics moving.
- make sure you take some binder just as you are hopping in to mop up any toxins you mobilise whilst in the sauna.
- And once you have finished sweating it out, make sure you rinse off in the shower to remove all the toxins you have sweated out that maybe sitting on your skin ready to be reabsorbed...ain’t no body want that!!!!
- You might also like to jump in a cold shower post-sauna to get some thermogenesis happening!!!
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15/05/2019

Detox, part 1.
Binders.
Intestinal binders are a crucial element to any detox protocol. They mop up biotoxins, mould and heavy metals sitting in the gut after being processed by the liver and excreted through bile to the small intestine ready for excretion. Binders help ensure the toxins are not reabsorbed by the body.
It is also important to use a range of binders as each one aids in the binding of different toxins and metals. At the moment I am using:
- Zeolite, preferably Dr. Klinghardt’s zeolithMed
- Biosil
- Activated charcoal
It is important to drink plenty of filtered water when taking binders and ensure that you are going to the toilet...cause no one wants backed-up intestines full of toxins and heavy metals!!!
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13/05/2019

The Herxeimer Reaction.
Is a cascade of symptoms that come raging in like a freakin tornado due to the die off of bacteria, parasites, and other microorganisms when treating. Symptoms are often described as flu-like: fever, aching limbs, nausea, sore throat, sweats, and headaches but for many with Lyme disease, mould illness and alike it’s an exacerbation of already existing symptoms or the reoccurrence of old symptoms. It’s nasty, it’s debilitating and can last days, weeks or months. This is why it is soo important to titrate treatment, ensure the treatment you have chosen suits your body and that you are detoxing correctly. Herxing is no easy feat, it’s debilitating and exhausting and at times dangerous. Tomorrow I will discuss detoxing...the most important part of any lyme treatment.
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11/05/2019

Lyme disease is caused by the spiral-shaped bacteria Borellia Burgdorferi however, when infected with this bacteria by a tick it usually comes with a number of other bacterial infections, viruses and parasites that also come under the umbrella of “Lyme disease.” Each with their own set of symptoms, DNA structure and treatment, they can often go un-detected in blood test results due to their ability to change their shape, structure and form to enable it to hide-out in different tissues and organs of the body. (See images above for more details). Thus, it is important to not only make a diagnosis from a pathological point of view but to also take into account the signs and symptoms the patient may be exhibiting. For me I was diagnosed with not only Borellia burgdorferi but also: Chlamydia pneumoniae, Babesia, Mycoplasma and Staph.
Thanks for the images!!
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10/05/2019

We are 10 days in to the month of May, a month of Lyme disease awareness shared right around the world.🌎 Whilst my plan was to post this on the 1st of May, Lyme got the better of me and it just didn’t quite happen. 💁🏼‍♀️ and you know what??? Once upon a time, that would have made me soo darn angry but Hey!... Sh*t happens 🤷🏼‍♀️
So...For the rest of this month I will be sharing facts and tips on Lyme, how it’s affected me and what I’ve done to overcome the obstacles it’s thrown at me. I’ll also be sharing what’s in my toolbox of treatments and healing remedies, including what’s worked and what hasn’t! 🙌🏻
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12/04/2019

I wrote a thing.. ✨
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13/03/2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/smarter-living/five-things-i-wish-i-knew-chronic-illness-crohns-disease-ibd.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=

Finding out you have a chronic illness — one that will, by definition, never go away — changes things, both for you and those you love.

22/02/2019

More Birthday Cake Goodness. 🤤🤤🤤
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22/02/2019

So this happened on the weekend.... 💕✨🌸 (and as you can see from my child-like photo I was pretty darn ecstatic to meet him!!!) - Charlie is an energy healer of whom I had the absolute pleasure of being in the presence of and receiver of his healing over the weekend at the 🙏🏻 - an experience like no other; throughout his group healing session I felt a surge of intense pain and heat throughout my whole body, pressure deep into my third eye and an inability to breathe causing me to rip my respiratory mask off to try to gasp more air. - I was then lucky enough to experience a second healing session which provoked a more spiritual journey (eyes fluttering and rolling back into my head and all). - Thankyou for putting yourself out there so selflessly to help and inspire others Charlie! I am in awe of you and hope that one day I can share my own experiences and help heal others travelling along a similar path. -
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20/02/2019

Papa 🐦’s B’day Cake made by Yours truly!!! 🤤🎂🍩
- raw choccie fudge rocky road brownie slice with icing as thick as the cake!!! 💕💕💕


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20/02/2019

Heal Me, Nourish Me.
- frozen wild blueberries, 1/2 a banana and coconut water all blended up together, topped with kiwi fruit and fresh expensive as hell organic blueberries!!! 🙏🏻💕
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