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Reflection and Gratitude

Having Come So Far

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Summary: Reflecting on her journey, the author embraces a moment of peace and gratitude for her progress. From struggling with mental health and physical ailments to finding healing through therapy and personal growth, she celebrates being free from depression, anxiety, and other conditions. She now lives optimistically, cherishing life’s blessings and feeling at peace with herself.

I’m taking a moment just now to be reflective, be still and at peace. I am pausing to take notice of where I am now. To notice just how far I’ve come. I think it becomes really easy on a healing journey to spend so much time looking at the end goal – that panacea of health, whatever that may be for you or me – that we forget to be thankful for everything that has already happened and that we have already achieved. I guess this post is one of gratitude for all the ways that I have served my own higher good and my own blossoming health.

Looking Back To Where I Was

I am thinking back to the teenager I was. I was angry. I got dressed in black everyday. I didn’t want to mix with the majority of people in the world. I didn’t care about my diabetes. I didn’t care about my health. From here, things only got worse. By my twenties, my mental health had descended into a very deep, dark pit. I was so depressed that I couldn’t get out of bed for weeks at a time. I was so anxious that just walking down to the corner of my street, about 50 metres, was too much for me. I was trapped both in my mind and in my house.

As well as Type 1 Diabetes, clinical depression and clinical anxiety, I had polycystic ovarian syndrome, temporomandibular jaw dysfunction and recurrent infections. I spent a lot of my time seeing doctors. None of them seemed to be able to offer me anything more than temporary relief from symptoms.

I carried my victim status in all my interactions. I felt the world was out to get me. I felt the medical profession was my enemy. I felt God had abandoned me.

I wasn’t really aware at that time just how much I had come undone. I carried on until I couldn’t carry on anymore. I then got help. I started with psychotherapy. I saw multiple therapists over a ten-year period. Some helped some. Some didn’t help at all. One changed my life. Actually, he enabled me to change my life. That was the start of a thousand steps on my road of healing.

Gratitude For The Now

I am sitting here today, free of mental health issues. I have safely weaned myself off antidepressants. No anxiety, no depression remain. I no longer have temporomandibular jaw dysfunction. I rarely see any doctors or need to (apart from my usual diabetes check-ups). I eat well. I move well. I am optimistic about life.

I suspect that my inability to just sit down is rooted in my nervous system too. My twitchiness, my desire to always move and ‘do’ seems indicative of a fight-or-flight reaction. If you’re being stalked through the trees by a predator (or your body thinks that’s the case), you’re not just going to kick back and stargaze, are you?!

I have put down my victim mentality and picked up grace instead. I am grateful for all that life has given me. I am grateful for the woman it has enabled me to become. I am grateful for all the opportunities that life presents. I am grateful for the peace in my heart and the love that surrounds me. I’ve gone from continually reassuring myself, pleading with myself, that I’m ‘not a bad egg’ to telling myself that life is good. And really feeling that in my heart. I am healing. I am well. Life is good.

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Natalie is a blogger with Type 1 Diabetes. Natalie’s special gifts are questioning the status quo and being a rebel. She is using these gifts to question medical ‘knowledge’ and find a true cure for Type 1 Diabetes.

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September 11, 2022

NEWSFLASH!

The Link Between Insulin And Dopamine

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Summary: Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have discovered insulin’s impact beyond digestion, revealing its role in brain function and dopamine systems. This breakthrough aligns with Candace Pert’s holistic hormone theory. For the author, who has ADHD, this raises questions about insulin’s influence on symptoms and its potential link to depression and diabetes management through pleasure-inducing dopamine.

I have just come across an article in Science Daily that I wanted to talk about. It has finally been found that insulin not only plays a role in digestion but it also influences brain function. At last the wider scientific community are catching up with Candace Pert’s research. who argued that hormones like insulin are body-wide and influence both the brain and the body!

This research, undertaken by researchers at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has shown that insulin has a direct effect on the brain’s dopamine systems. When insulin is low or absent in the body, the dopamine pathways do not fire. This results in a lack of stimulation to the brain regions that recognise reward, attention and movement.

This is particularly interesting for me because of my ADHD symptomology. Could it be that my ADHD symptoms are purely a result of my insulin levels in my system? And, therefore, could they fluctuate in severity with any excess or lack thereof?

I am also aware how dopamine plays a key role in enabling us to feel pleasure. So that makes me wonder if an absence of dopamine is likely to cause an absence of pleasure i.e. depression? The rate of depression is diabetics is significantly greater than the general population, with adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes are five times more likely to be depressed than their healthy counterparts.

A final question that this research encourages me to ask is… Can improvement in pleasure (which would cause dopamine production in the brain) result in more insulin production (or a decrease in the inhibition of insulin production)? Could increased pleasure help to heal Type 1 Diabetes? It’s certainly worth investigating… Who doesn’t want more pleasure in their lives?!

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December 20, 2021

Osteopathy Turns The Freeze Response To Flight!

How Trauma Theory Informs This Response

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Summary: After her initial osteopathy session revealed a freeze response, the author returned for a follow-up to find her body had shifted to a flight response. Surprised at the quick transition, the author reflected on trauma experts like Peter Levine and Babette Rothschild, exploring how these theories highlight how fight-flight-freeze responses impact health.

I discussed in my blog post here about my first osteopathy appointment, where my osteopath found that my body was in a freeze response.

Now, I have returned for a follow-up appointment with my osteopath and have found that my body has shifted into a flight response! My predictions in my blog post were right… I postulated that my freeze response would turn into a fight/flight response when it thawed!!

I have to say that I was shocked at how quick it was for my body to shift from one state to the other. Of course, in normal life and health, the human body switches between the fight-flight response and the rest-repair response with ease. However, I now realise that I had expected something different from my body… I thought it would just be stuck in one mode forever. That I somehow had a broken switch, stuck forever in an activated sympathetic nervous system. It would appear that that is not the case. My body can heal whenever it wants.

Peter Levine: Trauma Is A Physiological Response

This transition in my sympathetic nervous system brought to mind for me the work of two trauma experts. The first was the work of Peter Levine, PhD. Peter Levine is a trauma specialist who works with the bodily responses of clients who have experienced traumatic events. He is interested in the physiological process that animals undergo as a result of traumatic events and how this information can be used to heal unresolved trauma in clients. He argues that an unresolved trauma response, which is what I suspect Type 1 Diabetes is, can only be completed when the body is enabled to complete the normal physiological response to trauma.

This video is Peter Levine explaining in his own words how this may take place….

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zsp4iRAGtc

Babette Rothschild: Hierarchy Of Trauma Responses

The second trauma expert that came to mind for me was Babette Rothschild. Babette is a trained psychotherapist and body psychotherapist based in the United States. Like Peter Levine, she specialises in the field of trauma and particularly on the bodily responses to it. She has written an excellent book called ‘The Body Remembers‘, which I found incredibly useful when processing the disabling overwhelm of early bodily trauma.

In her second book, ‘The Body Remembers Volume 2: Revolutionizing Trauma Treatment‘, Babette outlines a model for understanding the different physiological responses to trauma – fight, flight, freeze – and places them relative to each other in scale. (You can see a diagram of this scale, entitled ‘Autonomic Nervous System : Precision Regulation‘ on her website, somatictraumatherapy.com).

What is important for me in Babette’s scale is that the freeze response is recognised as a greater response of the sympathetic nervous system than the fight-flight response. So this supports the finding of my osteopath that, following treatment with her, my system down-regulated itself from a freeze response to a fight-flight response.

My Body’s Response To The Flight Responses

I am now wondering about the hypertension that my diabetologist has just diagnosed me with (see my post here on that). I saw him for my appointment just two days after I had my osteopath appointment. Was the high blood pressure just a temporary result of my body shifting from a freeze response to a more enlivened fight-flight response? When the sympathetic nervous system triggers a fight-flight response, a series of hormones are released that trigger a raise in heart rate, breathing rate and, yes, blood pressure!

I have booked an appointment with my General Practitioner to talk this through and explore whether or not I have a blood pressure issue. Let’s find out if this is a fight-flight reaction or an actual health concern. I’ll let you know what happens!

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December 6, 2021

It’s The Freeze Response!!

Osteopathy Provides Answers

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Summary: After her first osteopathy session, she experienced profound insights about my body’s freeze response. Osteopathy, a holistic therapy, gently manipulates the body to enhance wellbeing. Despite initial uncertainty during the session, the author felt deeply relaxed afterward, akin to a therapeutic process. Exploring the freeze response’s role in her Type 1 Diabetes journey revealed intriguing possibilities for healing.

I had my very first osteopathy appointment this week. And the information I gained about my body was INCREDIBLE!!!

What Is Osteopathy?

Osteopathy is a complementary therapy that can be used alongside more usual Western medical treatments to increase the health of a person. It can treat issues in the nervous system, the circulatory system and the lymphatic system.

Osteopathy is a hands-on treatment that is both drug-free and non-invasive. Osteopaths use their hands to manipulate the joints, muscles and spine of a patient to improve functioning and wellbeing.

Osteopathy understands the body holistically, as a mind-body-soul system. All systems of the body are understood as interrelated.

My Experience Of Osteopathy

Osteopathy definitely needs to be identified as an alternative therapy. I found it be wholly relaxing, lying on my back on a massage table as my osteopath proceeded to place her hands softly on various parts of my anatomy. To be honest, most of the time I was even unsure if anything effective was being undertaken! There was no manipulation of my joints or muscles.

I wasn’t even sure if anything was being done… Until I finished the treatment! At the end, I felt exhausted and a bit dizzy. I spent the rest of my day simply relaxing and resting on the sofa. I felt like I had undergone a really intensive energy process, not dissimilar to the feeling I have got from an emotionally-intensive psychotherapy session.

Making Sense Of The Freeze Response

From the moment my osteopath put her hands on my feet, she told me with absolute certainty that I was in a freeze response. I was instantaneously fascinated! It was the piece of the puzzle that I was missing at this point in my healing journey.

I had been oscillating between conceptualising Type 1 Diabetes as a fight response and then as a freeze response and then back again. In my article on the fight-or flight response, I discussed how I believed Type 1 Diabetes was a chronic fight-or-flight response brought on by traumatic experiences. At the time of writing that article, I had been suspecting that T1D was most likely to be a chronic fight response. This hunch came from my observations, and personal experience, of the high level of anger and rage that diabetics exhibit, as well as the terminology that is often used to describe the condition… ‘Diabetes is a daily battle’ or ‘Winning the fight against diabetes’.

However, in this article, I did also touch on how I felt that the fight-or-flight response became chronic because the person experiencing the trauma had no opportunity to process it. And this would be where the freeze response comes in. If the body has no outlet to process it, the experience has no option but to remain stored in the system, creating a chronic freeze state.

Evidence Of A Freeze Response…?

When the body goes into a ‘freeze response’, a series of physiological changes cascade through the body. As I have thought about my body and the symptoms it has been exhibiting, I have concluded that my osteopath’s conclusion is most likely correct. I do seem to exhibit a wide range of ‘freeze’ symptoms…

Unthawing The Freeze Response…?

My osteopath feels that she can shift my freeze response within two to three sessions. To be honest, I feel skeptical right now that that is possible so I will wait to see what happens with that.

Another thought that is still nagging at my mind now that I know my body is in a freeze response comes about when I think about Daniel Darkes. Daniel is an ultra-marathon runner. One of the more usual responses to a threat is the flight response – running for your life. So, if I am in a freeze response, like my osteopath is suggesting, and if I am therefore extrapolating correctly that T1D is an extended, chronic freeze response, how did Daniel cure his T1D by using a flight response??

The only thing that I am wondering about is whether healing from T1D might be a staged approach. I suspect that, as you unfreeze from a freeze response, your body will then want to complete the unfinished fight-or-flight response. For example, a deer in the wild that has collapsed in a freeze response in front of a predator, will want to awaken and spring to life at the first opportunity then run away. If that is the case, I would expect to see a change in my physiology resulting from my osteopathic treatment, which exhibits more fight or flight responses. I’ll keep you posted on that!

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November 8, 2021

Body Confidence

From Body Disconnection To Celebrating My Body

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I have a photo in my bedroomof me, my brother and my sister when I was seven years old. It’s a typical holiday photo, with all three of us perched upon a rock whilst the tide sweeps gently in and out by our feet. The sun is shining. We all look happy. The thing is, I remember how unhappy I was that day. I clearly remember just how fat I felt. I was highly aware of my body as I sat there submitting to the photo that I wished wasn’t being taken. I felt out of place with the slim people around me on the beach. I felt so much larger than my two ‘normal-sized’ siblings next to me.

So why do I display such a ‘hideous’ photo of me in my home? I hadn’t seen that photo for years, keeping it hidden out of sight, not wishing to risk the shame of someone else also witnessing the repulsiveness of my body. Last year, when I moved countries, I sorted through my whole house and came across this photo in a box. What surprised me as I lifted that photo out was just how completely normal my body was. How just like my brother and sister I looked, in size and proportion. I had nothing more than the soft squish of puppy fat that was pretty normal at such a young and innocent age.

It really hit me at that moment about body perception. How the continuous shaming I gave myself for my flawed body was just that… A perception. It also hit me in that moment about how, if I can hold that one perception, I am equally able hold to an alternative one. So I decided to actively change how I see my body. Now, I choose to see my beauty and I display that image with love and compassion in my home. Every day, it reminds me of how truly beautiful I am.

From Body Disconnection To Body Acceptance

Body Disconnection

The path to body love was a long one for me. I think that I have been disconnected from my body before I even really knew I had one. I was diagnosed with diabetes before I was eighteen months old. The medical treatment I underwent left me wholly disconnected from my body. It felt like an enemy in a battle I couldn’t win.

I once remember describing to a psychotherapist I was seeing at that time that my body felt like something I had to drag around behind me in order to get my mind to the locations it needed to be in. It had no use, and certainly no beauty, for me at that time.

Starting A Relationship With My Body

I felt great shame about having a body that was ‘broken’, ‘flawed’ and just not like ‘normal people’s’ (whatever I thought a ‘normal’ person might be…!!). I just knew that my body wasn’t like others’…. It unpredictably would collapse in the middle of sports day. It needed doctors’ appointments and long prescription refills and syringes and blood tests and glucose top-ups and all kinds of others things to persuade it to even just appear to act like other people’s naturally did. I remember apologising to people on multiple occasions when my body just failed to cooperate yet again.

I think there were several important steps I took to get me towards body acceptance. The first thing that really helped me was psychotherapy. Actually having a place to talk about the pain, the shame, the frustration, and the embarrassment that my body gave me. I was able to own for the first time how I genuinely felt about being diabetic and living a life with this condition. Only once I had felt and honoured and processed my own feelings, could I actually even open myself up to the idea of relating to my body.

Following this initial relating, I found a few things incredibly helpful in aiding me get back to body acceptance. On a physical level, both working out in the gym and attending yoga sessions were hugely helpful to me. At different points in my life, these both gave me avenues for exploring what my body could do, rather than being stuck with what it couldn’t do. On a mental level, the Hoffman Process really got me to build and deepen the relationship between my mind and my body.

By the time I completed the Hoffman Process, I had accepted my body as a part of me. I appreciated its functional aspects. For example, I appreciated being able-bodied and my body’s ability to get me from A to B. I appreciated my body’s ability to digest my food or sense the world around me. But I couldn’t yet say I loved it. At this point, it was almost like having a family member who I knew would be in my life but that I wouldn’t have chosen to be one of my best friends.

From Body Acceptance To Body Love

The Spirituality Of My Body

It was my spiritual work that got me from body acceptance to body love. I undertook a spiritual process called ‘Active Imagination’ for an intensive eighteen-month period [see this book for a detailed understanding of the process].

Before undertaking Active Imagination, I still felt that my body was something different to my mind. As the process of Active Imagination went on, I got to interact with my mind and my body in depth. It enabled me to understand their positions, how they felt and what I needed to do to bring them into alignment, into oneness. Interestingly, once I did that, my anxiety and depression disappeared and I knew it wouldn’t come back. It has been years since then and they still haven’t returned. I know that my body and mind are now at peace and are one.

Body Confidence

Although at peace with my body, I still didn’t feel proud of it. I still felt I was overweight and unattractive. A few things then took place in my life to change my mind.

Firstly, a friend came to visit me. She sat down and gave me a good talking to!! She told me about how beautiful I actually am. How I was wasting my life by berating myself for my perceived imperfections. How I might think of myself as unattractive but other people would define me as beautiful. How I am choosing the label I give myself. [It was a loooooonnnnng lecture….!!] Whilst this conversation on its own wasn’t enough to transform my attitude, it was enough for me to start asking some more questions. So I took to Google…

The first thing I tripped across was the body confidence community. I came across stories of so many women who were proud of the bodies they had, whatever size that may be. I was (and still am!) particularly inspired by the goddesses that are… Kate Wasley, Bree Kish, Samara Terese, Ashley Graham, Krychele Valenzuela and all the beautiful women who posted on #effyourbeautystandards. Thank you for giving me the nudge I needed to give myself permission to see myself as beautiful just the way I am!

The reality of my body is that it is beautiful… Whatever form it may take in any given moment. The beauty of my body is not connected to any aesthetic. It is beautiful because of its function, its purpose, its aesthetic and its sacredness. My body has enabled me to live in three different countries. My body has grown a child. My body has coped with all the ups and downs of diabetes and is still strong, healthy and beautiful.

For those of you that might need a little more help getting across the ‘I love my body’ finish line, I also found Megan Jayne Crabbe’s book ‘Body Positive Power‘ incredibly informative. I particularly liked when Megan outlined a well-funded and highly respected research study that showed that obese people actually live longer…!!

Celebrating My Body

To celebrat my new body confidence, I went shopping! To be precise… I bought all the clothes that I used to feel this body should not wear. I bought ripped jeans (two pairs!), a bikini, an above-knee dress, high heels, shorts… With every purchase, I realised that I was healing something inside. I was telling my body that I was okay, just as I was. I was telling my body that I am loved and honoured being the size I am. And the love I felt for myself flowed even more.

As I started wearing my new clothes, I realised how I am doing something that is bigger than myself. I am giving other women, of all ages, the permission to be themselves too. I am showing that it is okay to be in a bikini no matter what size you are. Through what I wear, I am telling women in the high street that they too are entitled to honour their body as it is now. And, importantly for me, my actions are telling those same things to my daughter and her friends so that they can grow up loving their bodies too. If that isn’t healing in action, then tell me what is!

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September 20, 2021

My Playful Soul

Sharing Some Artwork

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Just popping in to say ‘Hi!’ and share a couple of new bits I’ve been working on.

My creativity is still growing and changing. I’m looking forward to seeing where it goes!

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September 11, 2021

Let The Sun Shine!

But What About Sunscreen?

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**This is the second part of a two-part series on vitamin D and sunlight. Please find the first blog post of the series here.**

Summary: Living in a desert with abundant sunshine, the author explores sunlight as a potential key to healing Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). Acknowledging risks like skin cancer, the author opts for “sensible sun exposure” and consider what this might look like for different locations, skin colour, and body size. The author supplements with Vitamin D when needed, ensuring holistic health amidst sun-rich living.

Since I decided to set off on this journey to heal my diabetes, I have found myself relocated to a country with a lot of sunshine. A lotta, lotta sunshine… I now live in the desert! It’s coming into summer time now so the temperatures are getting up to the late-40s or hotter and I am being met by the blazing sun every time I leave my house. It started me thinking that maybe God had actually intended to make the sun a key piece in the puzzle to healing my T1D.

I am also aware that Daniel Darkes, who healed his own Type 1 Diabetes, does a lot of running outside all year round. I suspect that, even in the UK where he lives, he will still be exposed to a fair amount of sun on a weekly basis.

I discussed in my previous blog post about the importance of adequate vitamin D in controlling blood sugars and also its potential in healing T1D. I outlined the sources of vitamin D through diet, supplementation and sunlight and then demonstrated how I felt sunlight offers the optimum solution for vitamin D deficiency. In this post, I am digging deeper into sunshine exposure, its benefits and risks.

Safe Sun Exposure

So am I supposed to just let my skin soak up the sun?? What about skin cancer…?!?! I’ve grown up in a culture, probably like yours, where I’ve been told that the sun is dangerous and skin cancer is a big risk. I get it! Skin cancer is not something I want!! Having seen my father die of cancer, it’s not something I would ever personally wish to go through or ask my family to witness again. But I don’t think it has to be all-or-nothing. Instead, I am inclined to agree with Dr Holick’s promotion of ‘sensible sun exposure’.

How Much Sunlight Is Enough Sunlight?

You don’t need a lot of sun to get Vitamin D sufficiency… For Caucasians, just 13 minutes of exposure to the midday summer sun in the UK is sufficient to maintain healthy Vitamin D levels. Similarly, just 30 minutes of midday sunlight exposure in Norway produces enough Vitamin D to maintain healthy Vitamin D levels.

There are, however, a series of factors that will affect the required exposure time for various individuals. Firstly, there is the issue of location, location, location. People living further from the equator require more sunlight exposure than those that live in equatorial regions. Indeed, some research studies have found that people living in particularly northern countries, such as Norway , Boston (USA) and Edmonton (Canada), struggle to produce any vitamin D from sunlight in the winter months. At the other end of the spectrum, Vitamin D deficiency is also common in extremely sunny climates, such as the UAE, where the sun is so pervasive that people often stay inside in air conditioning all day to avoid its impact. However, sun exposure in these latitudes is much more full-on and thus less time in the sun is required. But it still needs to be done!

Secondly, skin colour is important. The pigment of your skin is a result of the amount of melanin it contains. The darker your skin, the more melanin it is likely to have. Melanin acts as a natural sunscreen. Therefore, people with darker skin tones require longer in the sun to produce the same amount of Vitamin D in their skin, with estimates suggesting that darker skin tones may need anything up to three hours more of sun exposure each day. For example, 30 minutes in the summer sun in a bathing suit can initiate the release of 1.25mg of Vitamin D in white people, versus 0.65mg in tanned people and 0.25mg in dark-skinned people.

Thirdly, body size impacts the absorption of Vitamin D. Vitamin D deficiency is more common in the obese population, with deficiency increasing with the degree of obesity. This is because overweight people have an excess of adipose tissue, which binds Vitamin D to it as part of its metabolic process. Therefore, in order to counteract this ‘kidnapping’, even more Vitamin D needs to be produced by the skin to ensure there is sufficient Vitamin D in the system available for bodily processes.

Lastly, the less skin you expose, the more time you need in the sun to meet your vitamin D requirements. So, if you dress modestly, you will need to spend more time in the sun to get the remaining exposed skin producing enough vitamin D. I prefer to wear a hat and sunglasses in order to prevent sun damage on my face. However, since this is a relatively small area of skin on my body, this is unlikely to dramatically affect my rate of vitamin D production.

What About Sunscreen?

I know for certain that avoiding sunburn is a must. The links between sunburn and skin cancer are well-documented. But would I go far enough to agree with Baz Luhrmann’s famous advice…?

Actually, no, I don’t agree with Baz. I think there is a better middle ground. Going out in the sun without sunscreen for the first 10-30 minutes, depending on the time of day and strength of the sun in any given latitude, is enough to give me the benefits of sun exposure to ensure adequate vitamin D absorption and serotonin production.

How Am I Translating This Information Into My Day-To-Day Life?

I have decided that, for me, sunlight is my number one source of vitamin D sufficiency. As I live in such a sunlight-rich part of the world, I have decided to get my sun exposure after the main heat of the day. I take some time 3 or 4 times a week to go and watch the sunset with my husband for about 20 minutes. It increases my level of enjoyment in life, gives me intimacy and connection with my husband and gives me adequate sun exposure.

On days that I go to the pool or the beach, I apply sunscreen when I arrive there. It takes approximately 15-20 minutes for sunscreen to be absorbed into the skin so, during that time, my skin is getting its required exposure.

However, there are still weeks when I might not get to the sunset or the pool. Therefore, to make sure I still get my vitamin D during these busy times, I also take vitamin D supplements. I take 250 mcg a day. However, for me, these are an additional top-up. I suspect that very little of them will actually be absorbed by my system.

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September 6, 2021

Vitamin D: The Sunshine Vitamin

Reduces the onset risk and honeymoon phase of Type 1 Diabetes

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**This is the first part of a two-part series on vitamin D and sunlight. Please find the second blog post of the series here.**

Summary: Vitamin D is crucial beyond bone health, impacting Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) by reducing its onset risk and potentially extending the insulin-free “honeymoon” phase post-diagnosis. Despite widespread deficiency among T1D patients, dietary sources like fish and fortified foods are inadequate, prompting exploration of supplements. However, natural sunlight, which boosts serotonin, aids sleep, and reduces inflammation without risk of toxicity, emerges as an optimal source for holistic healing.

The Importance Of Vitamin D In Type 1 Diabetes

Vitamin D is essential for strong bones because the body requires Vitamin D to metabolise calcium for bone health. However, the importance of Vitamin D extends well beyond this one factor for those currently with the condition of Type 1 Diabetes.

The link between Type 1 Diabetes and Vitamin D is very interesting. For example, it has been clearly demonstrated in the scientific literature that adequate Vitamin D supplementation reduces the risk of later developing Type 1 Diabetes. This therefore makes me wonder if it’s therefore also a necessary factor in reversing T1D…?

Preliminary research findings also suggest that Vitamin D supplementation in the initial period following diagnosis may also successfully extend the honeymoon period in Type 1 Diabetes, meaning insulin will either be not required or will be required at much lower doses for a longer period of time.

I also found another interesting study that demonstrated how Vitamin D deficiency contributes to the development of Type 2 Diabetes. The author discusses how low levels of Vitamin D lead to increased insulin resistance, which in turn leads to beta-cell burnout. In healing my T1D, I believe that minimising my insulin resistance is likely to give my healing pancreas more of a chance to produce adequate insulin for my body’s needs if I am asking it to produce less.

Furthermore, Vitamin D deficiency has also been shown to inhibit insulin production in the pancreas. This is exactly what I don’t want to be doing if I want to heal so vitamin D sufficiency is a must!!

What I find particularly heartbreaking is that, despite the benefits to T1D and healing, the majority of people going through the condition of Type 1 Diabetes have Vitamin D deficiency. It is very common, with a prevalence ranging from 15% to 90.6% in clinical samples. Since Vitamin D treatment has been shown to improve both blood sugar control and insulin sensitivity, this deficiency is hugely detrimental to the T1D population.

Sources Of Vitamin D: Food, Supplements And Sunlight

Okay, I am definitely persuaded that Vitamin D is vital to my healing journey due to the raft of health benefits it provides. So how do I get enough of this little beauty??

Vitamin D In Food… Fish, Mushrooms And Fortified Foodstuffs

Very few natural foods contain a good amount of vitamin D. Those that do include several types of fish (salmon, herring, sardines and tuna) and mushrooms. Other food sources that provide vitamin D are fortified foods, where vitamin D has been artificially added. These include cow’s milk, cereal, orange juice and soy milk. but the chance of being able to fully consume the required daily allowance of Vitamin D purely through what you eat is pretty low. We just don’t eat enough of these kinds of foods. So whilst I do now eat a good amount of fish (see my blog post here on that topic), I feel I need to look beyond food for additional sources of vitamin D.

Vitamin D Supplements

The next obvious place to look for additional sources of Vitamin D are through supplements. They are easy to use and provide a guaranteed level of Vitamin D each day. Easy! Or is it?

The thing is…. I spent most of my early thirties being Vitamin D deficient. I took supplement after supplement – some prescribed by doctors, some purchased privately from ‘top of the range’ supplement providers, some just from pharmacies. I took them all diligently but none – NONE! – of them got my Vitamin D back in range. During this time, I became aware that Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin, needing the presence of fat to be properly absorbed. So then I took my supplement with my meals. Yet I still remained Vitamin D deficient!!

This changed for me after my daughter was born. When she was six months old, I attended a talk at my local nursery on weaning. The nurse practitioner running the class was wearing a badge that read ‘Ask me about Vitamin D’. So I did. She said that, because we were so good these days at protecting our children with sunscreen, the rate of rickets is rising in children. So she wanted to advise us all to give our children supplements to counteract this. At this point my intuition started screaming at me… This seemed absolutely mad…! We are supposed to use a manufactured product (sunscreen) to protect our children but then need to use another manufactured product (vitamin D supplements) to counter the side effect?!?! And, from my own experiences, I knew that this Vitamin D wouldn’t even necessarily be an effective solution… It wasn’t for me!! The simple solution I landed up was simply letting my child play in the sun, in the same way generations before her have also done!

Vitamin D From Sunlight

My intuition has now been supported by the work of Dr. Michael Holick. He highlights how more than 90% of Vitamin D is actually produced inside the body using the ultraviolet rays contained in sunshine. He has found that the recommended doses for Vitamin D supplementation are often inadequate. Indeed, Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent in adults of all ages who always wear sunscreen or limit their outdoor activities. In fact, Holick states that it is difficult to maintain adequate Vitamin D levels in healthy concentrations without sunlight.

Benefits Of Sunlight

However, the benefits on health of sunlight go way beyond avoiding vitamin D deficiency. I include herewith a whole host of other factors that support the inclusion of safe sun exposure as part of daily life…

Avoidance Of Vitamin D Toxicity

An additional benefit of using sunlight as my source of Vitamin D is that it avoids the potential for vitamin D toxicity. Although rare, it is indeed possible to develop vitamin D toxicity from over-supplementation. This can cause nausea, vomiting, weakness and frequent urination. Unlike other sources of vitamin D, sun exposure does not typically lead to vitamin D toxicity due to the body’s ability to naturally regulate production.

Increased Levels Of Serotonin – The Wellbeing And Happiness Hormone

I know that when I have spent time in sunlight, I feel better… Whether that’s lazing in the grass with a book or even just sitting in a graveyard for an hour whilst I had lunch (yeah, I know it’s weird but it was the only outside space near where I used to work…!!). Sunshine just seems to make me feel better and give me more joy. It feels good on my skin.

The scientific literature appears to provide an explanation for my increased joy… It would appear that sitting outside in the sunshine kickstarts your brain’s serotonin production. Serotonin is one of a series of hormones in the body. It acts as a mood stabiliser, providing feelings of wellbeing and happiness. It also promotes a healthy sleep cycle and aids digestion.

Serotonin production fluctuates with the seasons, with higher concentrations being produced in the body in late summer and autumn than in winter and spring in the Western world. The reason for these fluctuations are not completely understood but one strong hypothesis suggests that the skin is responsible for the majority of serotonin production and therefore, as the skin is exposed to less sunshine in the colder months, less serotonin is produced in the body.

So… The more sunlight I can get, the more joyful I will generally feel! I outlined in my post on Dr Kelly Turner’s research that increasing positive emotions has been identified as one of the nine key healing factors so that makes sunlight exposure even more vital to healing.

Better Sleep

Sun exposure on the skin produces the chemical melanin, which is needed to produce the hormone melatonin. Melatonin is necessary to maintain the daily circadian rhythms of the body, rhythms that are essential for regulating sleep.

Reduced Weight

Some preliminary studies (here and here) suggest that vitamin D supplementation reduces body fat. However, this meta analysis suggests that Vitamin D is not associated with weight loss. Therefore, the impact of Vitamin D on weight loss is unclear and any mechanism by which this occurs is also unclear. It may, for example, be due to better sleep regulation, rather than a direct effect on fat cells. However, for my healing journey, the less excess weight I carry, the less insulin resistance I will have and Vitamin D at safe levels may help.

Better Mental Health

Vitamin D supplementation has been found to reduce anxiety and improve mood in female diabetic patients. However, Vitamin D has not been found to impact depression.

Improved Cell Proliferation and Differentiation

Vitamin D has also been found to play a key role in the process of cell proliferation and differentiation in the human body. As I intend to encourage more beta cell proliferation and also conversion (differentiation!) of my delta cells to beta cells, Vitamin D is crucial to my healing journey!

Reduced Inflammation

Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to an increase in body-wide inflammation. I believe that inflammation increases insulin resistance and decreases healing. It is something I continually strive to minimise in my body.

Summary

In this blog post, I have discussed how important vitamin D is for health and healing in Type 1 Diabetes. For Type 1 Diabetes specifically, I highlighted how vitamin D has been shown to improve blood sugar control, reduce insulin resistance, prevent development of Type 1 Diabetes. I continued by outlining three sources of vitamin D – food, supplements and sunshine. I discussed why I felt sunlight was the preferable source for vitamin D production and the many benefits additional to vitamin D production that sunlight provides. In my next blog post, I will talk more about ensuring adequate sun exposure in a safe manner and how I am incorporating this into my life.

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August 30, 2021

Art Is Calling My Name!

Healing More Than The Physical

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Summary: The author embraces creativity as a pivotal part of their healing journey, inspired by figures like Carl Jung, Alice Miller, Gabor Maté, and Stacy Solodkin. Rediscovering art through therapy, they find solace and expression. Now engaged in an abstract painting course, they explore self-love and potential life purpose through joyful creativity.

At the moment, I am really called to being creative. Art, more specifically creating art, is calling my name. I see this as a good sign. As Rachel Remen highlights, there is a deep connection between healing and creativity. I believe that the divine source inside ourselves is naturally creative. As I heal and become more of my authentic self, I reclaim those creative parts of myself that have been absent or denied.

As I welcome this part of myself back into the fold, I am drawn to thinking about people I have come to know about during my healing journey that have also used art and creativity to heal themselves…

Carl Jung

I know that, as the psychoanalyst and healer Carl Jung proceeded along his healing journey, he became highly creative. It didn’t only result in the impressive volumes of psychiatric theory that still influences nearly all areas of psychotherapy today. It also resulted in Jung’s magnus opus – the Red Book. The Red Book is a beautifully decorative and artistic book of his journey into his inner world as he transformed himself, his healing and his relationship to his spirituality. Art was a central component of his healing and life’s work.

Alice Miller – Psychoanalyst, Author and Artist

Alice Miller trained as a psychoanalyst in her early thirties. She worked successfully in the field for twenty years. However, in 1987, Alice announced her outright rejection of psychoanalytic practice in a German magazine called Psychologie Heute (Psychology Today). She felt that the theory behind psychoanalytic practice actually prevented survivors of childhood abuse from being able to recognise and reconcile their abuse, instead holding the parents as sacrosanct and blaming the child for their fantasies.

Having turned away from psychoanalysis, Alice Miller found healing in art. She painted a multitude of paintings in the latter half of her life and published the book “Pictures of My Life” as an expose of how she reconciled her own trauma through artwork.

Gabor Maté: Scattered Minds

Gabor Maté, the renowned physician and healer, first interested me with his book ‘Scattered Minds‘ because of my own challenges with AD(H)D. However, as I have read more of his works, I have come to realise that this physician is actually more of a healer than a psychiatrist. He works with multiple healing modalities, for both himself and his patients. In his outstanding book ‘Scattered Minds’, he outlines several strategies useful to healing ADD, one of which is creative expression. In his own words… ‘Essential to finding meaning and purpose in life is the liberation of one’s creative instincts’ (Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds, 1999, pp. 289-290).

Stacy Solodkin – Cancer Survivor and Artist

Stacy Solodkin is an actor, artist, wife, friend and cancer survivor. She first came to my attention through the Heal Community. (There’s a great interview here on her journey.) What particularly interested me about her healing journey was how she returned to her artwork, transitioning back to a place where she was making her artwork for herself and her own soul.

My Own Healing Journey

My own history with art followed a long and unpredictable route. I loved to draw as a young child. I was truly creative, more interested in doing arts and crafts than most other forms of play. As I became an older child, the play and genuine love of all things arty was replaced by a realisation of inadequacy, incompleteness, just being ‘not good’ at it. My older brother was a natural born artist. He could draw beautiful portraits and still life in a way that, even in my memory today, astounds me. In retrospect, I guess I could look back and say that he was the Leonardo da Vinci and I was more of a Picasso. I just didn’t understand that they were both beautiful forms of art.

So I lost my way with art and stopped doing it. I grew up and became serious. I lost my sense of play. It wasn’t until I was about a year into therapy that my creativity woke up. I was struggling in therapy. I had hit a wall. I couldn’t express what I was trying to say in words. No words seemed to match my experiences so I took to art to try to express my depths. I recovered a part of me that gave me joy, expression, meaning and focus. The pictures were usually dark and difficult to sit with, but they provided me with such relief. The pictures that came to me at that time didn’t feel like they came from me. They were already complete when they entered my mind and it was purely my job to replicate them on the paper in front of me.

After I finished therapy, I didn’t feel drawn to do much art. I enjoyed doing various crafting projects but that was about it. But, recently, as I have been focussing more intently on my healing work, the passion for art has reawoken in me again. I am currently working my way through an abstract painting course that I bought online by the Australian artist Tracy Verdugo It is really good fun and I’m getting a lot of fulfilment out of it!

I think I’m coming to understand that reclaiming my creativity is part of the healing journey. It’s about learning to love yourself, through loving your art, even if you want to reach for judgement about what you’ve just created.

Maybe art and creativity will also become part of my life’s work. I don’t know. All I know is that I am drawn to it (pun intended!) and I am enjoying it. I truly believe that joy is a true healer so any way that increases the joy further in my life is welcomed. I’ll see where it takes me from here!

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August 23, 2021

Cortisol: The ‘Stress’ Hormone

Can Cortisol Actually Induce Healing?

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Summary: The author explores exercise-induced cortisol levels and their impact on T1D healing, influenced by an article from Shape. It discusses cases of spontaneous remission linked to stress-induced cortisol spikes, suggesting a potential mechanism akin to Peter Levine’s stress cycle theory. This hypothesis prompts consideration of re-enacting past traumas for healing benefits.

Since writing my post on the fight-or-flight response, I have come across an article that has further developed my understanding and thoughts around this…! It all started when I was musing about what form of exercise I wanted to select as part of my healing process. I like doing weight training but I always come away from my sessions feeling pumped up and ready to fight or punch someone. It made me think about how I might be encouraging the fight-or-flight response in my system. Therefore, I wasn’t sure that that feeling was inducive to my healing. So I started Googling to see what I could learn about this. One of the articles I came across was this article in Shape. It reassured me that the cortisol from my gym workouts were not going to be troublesome to the health of my body or to my healing.

This article, though, also mentioned the risk of high cortisol levels from ultra-marathon running (which Daniel Darkes does) and from CrossFit (which Johan Kotze does). That peaked my interest! So do elevated cortisol levels somehow help in healing T1D?

I looked to see if this idea could be seen in the other cases of spontaneous remissions I discussed in my post here. I got stuck when it came to the case of the 32-year-old female who spontaneously healed from T1D whilst detained in prison. It was only when I talked this through with a friend who also has T1D that it landed for me… My friend pointed out that this woman was likely to have been under a lot of stress in a prison environment and without the supply of insulin she needed to keep alive. So, again, elevated cortisol levels appear to heal not harm!

My friend and I then wondered why elevated cortisol might be useful in healing T1D. This idea brought me straight back to the work of Peter Levine (see my post here for more information on that). Perhaps Daniel, Johan and the unnamed 32-year-old female all healed their Type 1 diabetes by elevating their cortisol levels back to the way they were at the time of diagnosis and then this time were able to complete the stress cycle in a healthy way. This is much like Peter Levine describes. In other words, they took their bodies back to the same condition it was in when T1D arrived but this time gave a route to healing instead. It’s only a hypothesis and I suspect it may be difficult to prove but the idea seems to sit well with the case studies and my own intuitive feel. It is making me think about, from here, how I may also safely re-enact my early life traumatic experiences and lead them towards a better outcome this time.

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August 16, 2021

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