Sometimes You just have to remember where there’s a will there’s a Way.
This is an old saying that really comes to bear when you are working to reclaim a fulfilling life post Lyme Disease. Yes, it is oh so crucial to vest in your own health and recovery. Work hard with your health care team to bring symptoms under best control, add self care to rebuild. Take all the time you need. Then figure out what you want to do with the rest of your life. How do I do this?
Start doing, carefully with guidance from my health care team the experts. Identify on an ongoing basis where I am, my focus, energy, pain and mobility. These are four I really needed to check in with to best build my day. Take a look at what you need to evaluate, it may be very different. Lyme disease and co infections effect each of us very uniquely.
Between Menopause and Lyme disease I know am a changed being. I am okay with that I have learned a ton. Life is about navigating change. No question my boundaries shrunk a lot when I was sick. I really don’t understand how strong or capable I am now. I don’t want to miss the opportunity to live a full life, so I need to figure things out.
Get Current with My Capabilities
So with that goal in mind, explore, do, grow my boundaries and celebrate continued expansion and healing. Let me give you an example. At my sickest, I couldn’t really drive at all; I could barely be a passenger, because of pain and vibration sensitivity. Then after a lot of healing, I began to drive again, ½ hour, then one hour, then two hours in a day. Big progress, it felt almost normal.
“You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.”
― Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
So Recently I decided to train in Pennsylvania about 6 hours away. The first time I came, I wasn’t at all sure how I would do. I made it fine, tired but in one piece. I expanded my reach! Now I know I can drive 6 hours.
Another example is my yoga practice. In 2011 I was teaching 6 or 8 yoga classes each week and taking a class or two. Then in 2012 with Lyme disease all that stopped. Getting up and down off the floor was impossible. Join pain and instability put all but the most basic movement out of reach. I started to rebuild strength with a fabulous friend and member of my health care team Pilates teacher Dyan at Dynamic Movement . Then I couple of months ago I added a gentle class for seniors. In the class I realized how very much I missed yoga and how much joy it gives me to practice in a group.
From looking at these examples I realized that I was still living within limits that no longer applied I really need to put my fear aside and expand more fully into the opportunities that life brings my way. I can plunge into sickness way more abruptly than before I got Lyme disease. This means it is on me to decide how much risk I want to take and how full a life I want to have. 
Reclaim a Fulfilling Life Post Lyme – Guidelines
- Consistent Self Care and Health Care are non negotiable.
- Pay attention to messages from my body and take action
- Graciously accept help and support of friends
- Engage with life from a spiritual perspective.
- Have fun with the exploration and be flexible about results.
- Be kind but firm with my ego about my reality and opportunities.
- Measure Progress with a long view.
- Prioritize the most important; what really makes my heart sing. Release the things that don’t.
The will to honor these guidelines will help me find the way to keep healing, and help me reclaim a fulfilling life post Lyme. If you are on a healing path I invite you to reach out. Reclaim a fulfilling life post Lyme disease each and every day. Hook into your support network if you need help to develop the will and find your way. How are you reclaiming your life post Lyme Disease? Please share in the comments below.
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