We all want to get the most out of our health and life. The question is: do you know how you can make this possible? Author CHARISE unlocks the secret to enjoying vibrant health through Healing Gifts From Our Planet! This practical guidebook is based on the author�s personal and successful journey from ill health and mediocrity to a vibrant health and life. She shares inspiration and hope and the effective strategies that she did in order to get to where she is now. You too can be healthy, happy and fulfilled! Are you ready to begin your own journey?

Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia in adolescence are insidious diseases, they steal hope perspective and time sadly the medical profession has a huge divergence of opinion on the illness the causes and the cure there just seems to be no definitive answers. The despair that this causes is deep and searing. This book is about one woman’s fight to restore her daughter to health when diagnosed with these diseases. It charts the many professionals that the family saw to try to find a cure for their daughter. Many of the health professionals dismissed the illness believing it to be a disease of malingerers. This lack of understanding of this illness and its origins is one of the defining reasons for writing this book.

Sufferers need to understand that they are not alone and that there is hope and that this illness is serious and is a real illness, it is not psychosomatic, it is not psychiatric it is a physical illness that has real symptoms and there is hope that you can put together some treatment options that may help them.

Claudia was 13 years old when her body just seemed to run out of energy. It had been a gradual process but with the start of high school and all of the changes that happened at that time the key triggers of this horrific illness where masked. It wasn’t until she passed out that the extent of the problem really became very very obvious.

Sonya Davies is the author and she lives in Melbourne Victoria with her husband of 20 years Mark and her 4 children. A professional woman who has worked in Marketing for 35 years, she had a varied and interesting career, full of travel and many diverse and interesting experiences she always felt that she was very fortunate.

She was not prepared when her 13 year old daughter Claudia passed out in her walk in ward robe and started to suffer seizures. Claudia spiralled very quickly over a period of 5 months into being seriously unwell, being unable to walk, wheel chair bound, using a toilet and shower stool and needing to be carried everywhere. She was 5 foot 5 and weighed 40 kilos. Sonya was beside herself, her life as she had known it stopped, she could not work, she could not leave her daughter alone. She was desperate to get help.

She thought she could get some answers from Doctors or a specialist and they would tell her what to do. Imagine her shock when every test that they did came back normal while her daughter kept getting more and more unwell. That was when the family entered the parallel universe, this universe operates next to but separate from the real universe, this universe is inhabited by the chronically ill, looking for treatments for health issues for which medical professionals have no answers.

She had never felt such despair or realised that such despair was possible for her. She is a positive, can do woman, every adversity has an answer you just have to connect the dots, her daughter was sick, she could not believe that she could not find a person to fix her. But every corner I turned, every doctor or health professional I took her to could not help, I got nowhere, I hit brick wall, after brick wall. My daughter was spiralling into very poor physical condition and suffering deep despair as she was constantly being told that she was hysterical and that this condition was psychosomatic.

She is a very intelligent girl and does not have a hysterical bone in her body. So telling her it was all in her head, her body had turned on pain signals and would not turn them off just made her feel more and more inadequate, obviously she had done something to make this happen. The family saw over 50 health professionals all offering other similarly unhelpful suggestions. Well not suggestions, pronouncements, they all pronounced something and sent them home in agony with no help and no idea where to get help.

Their daughter was unable to sleep, had muscles that got harder and tighter in her arms and legs any movement causing excruciating pain. She had absolutely no appetite and her weight plummeted to 40 kilos she just kept getting more and more unwell. Still every test was normal. After 6 months of investigation and still with no positive results for anything finally a rheumatologist put a name to it “Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia, very unusual combination in someone so young” Great a diagnosis, rejoice, now what do we do give us the answers. Imagine the shock when the only treatment was a prescription of anti depressants and a physio routine. The Doctor stated “there isn’t much you can do”, the most positive suggestion was, “Wait, you usually find that they will grow out of it by the time they are 21”……..7 years……..no way!

Sonya will never as long as she lives forget the day that doctor at a major Australian Hospital casually stood leaning on the wall of a corridor and told her those words. She didn’t hit him but she wanted to, she admits that she did say some very unattractive words and may have even insulted his parentage. Despair what to do it was then that she decided this is not going to stop me, I obviously we just needed a different doctor.

So the family struggled on getting test after test but becoming more and more aligned in the view that doctors would not supply the answer that they needed to look at allied health professionals the penny dropped, they realised there was not a magic answer, no one could tell them what to do and there was no treatment protocol that they could just join in with, they had to work it out by trial and error and by doing their own research. So Sonya started researching and haranguing and arguing and abusing and finally she found people who could help. But they could not heal, the family had to put all of the help together to heal their daughter. Sonya had to have the courage to do what she believed even when everyone around her thought that she had completely lost her mind. The family had one goal to get their daughter back to health and they realised they might have to move heaven and earth to do it.

Little did they know that this journey would steal 2 years of all of their lives. That the life they had known before the illness was almost like watching completely different people. This illness came close to claiming their sanity and Claudia’s life. This is the book tells the story of how against all the odds, they now have a very health boisterous 15 year old. Sadly many they met in the parallel universe are still chronically ill or have taken their own lives. After this experience Sonya firmly believes there are many suicides as a direct result of people feeling totally lost and despairing because they feel so unwell and everyone tells them their tests are normal. Sonya says “I want to scream from the roof tops. If you have no energy or you are suffering pain in your arms and legs and you have bad breath or you burp or you have cracked and peeling nails and dry skin and sleep disturbance. It is not in your head, chronic fatigue is a physical illness YOU ARE NOT WELL, NO MATTER WHAT THE DOCTORS SAY and anti depressants will make you worse.” She hopes that this book inspires people to find answers for them to take charge of their health and recognise that you can bring together the people and the protocols to heal yourself. This book is the research that she used to get Claudia better and she hopes it helps others out there looking for answers.

Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia in adolescence are insidious diseases, they steal hope perspective and time sadly the medical profession has a huge divergence of opinion on the illness the causes and the cure there just seems to be no definitive answers. The despair that this causes is deep and searing. This book is about one woman’s fight to restore her daughter to health when diagnosed with these diseases. It charts the many professionals that the family saw to try to find a cure for their daughter. Many of the health professionals dismissed the illness believing it to be a disease of malingerers. This lack of understanding of this illness and its origins is one of the defining reasons for writing this book.

Sufferers need to understand that they are not alone and that there is hope and that this illness is serious and is a real illness, it is not psychosomatic, it is not psychiatric it is a physical illness that has real symptoms and there is hope that you can put together some treatment options that may help them.

Claudia was 13 years old when her body just seemed to run out of energy. It had been a gradual process but with the start of high school and all of the changes that happened at that time the key triggers of this horrific illness where masked. It wasn’t until she passed out that the extent of the problem really became very very obvious.

Sonya Davies is the author and she lives in Melbourne Victoria with her husband of 20 years Mark and her 4 children. A professional woman who has worked in Marketing for 35 years, she had a varied and interesting career, full of travel and many diverse and interesting experiences she always felt that she was very fortunate.

She was not prepared when her 13 year old daughter Claudia passed out in her walk in ward robe and started to suffer seizures. Claudia spiralled very quickly over a period of 5 months into being seriously unwell, being unable to walk, wheel chair bound, using a toilet and shower stool and needing to be carried everywhere. She was 5 foot 5 and weighed 40 kilos. Sonya was beside herself, her life as she had known it stopped, she could not work, she could not leave her daughter alone. She was desperate to get help.

She thought she could get some answers from Doctors or a specialist and they would tell her what to do. Imagine her shock when every test that they did came back normal while her daughter kept getting more and more unwell. That was when the family entered the parallel universe, this universe operates next to but separate from the real universe, this universe is inhabited by the chronically ill, looking for treatments for health issues for which medical professionals have no answers.

She had never felt such despair or realised that such despair was possible for her. She is a positive, can do woman, every adversity has an answer you just have to connect the dots, her daughter was sick, she could not believe that she could not find a person to fix her. But every corner I turned, every doctor or health professional I took her to could not help, I got nowhere, I hit brick wall, after brick wall. My daughter was spiralling into very poor physical condition and suffering deep despair as she was constantly being told that she was hysterical and that this condition was psychosomatic.

She is a very intelligent girl and does not have a hysterical bone in her body. So telling her it was all in her head, her body had turned on pain signals and would not turn them off just made her feel more and more inadequate, obviously she had done something to make this happen. The family saw over 50 health professionals all offering other similarly unhelpful suggestions. Well not suggestions, pronouncements, they all pronounced something and sent them home in agony with no help and no idea where to get help.

Their daughter was unable to sleep, had muscles that got harder and tighter in her arms and legs any movement causing excruciating pain. She had absolutely no appetite and her weight plummeted to 40 kilos she just kept getting more and more unwell. Still every test was normal. After 6 months of investigation and still with no positive results for anything finally a rheumatologist put a name to it “Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia, very unusual combination in someone so young” Great a diagnosis, rejoice, now what do we do give us the answers. Imagine the shock when the only treatment was a prescription of anti depressants and a physio routine. The Doctor stated “there isn’t much you can do”, the most positive suggestion was, “Wait, you usually find that they will grow out of it by the time they are 21”……..7 years……..no way!

Sonya will never as long as she lives forget the day that doctor at a major Australian Hospital casually stood leaning on the wall of a corridor and told her those words. She didn’t hit him but she wanted to, she admits that she did say some very unattractive words and may have even insulted his parentage. Despair what to do it was then that she decided this is not going to stop me, I obviously we just needed a different doctor.

So the family struggled on getting test after test but becoming more and more aligned in the view that doctors would not supply the answer that they needed to look at allied health professionals the penny dropped, they realised there was not a magic answer, no one could tell them what to do and there was no treatment protocol that they could just join in with, they had to work it out by trial and error and by doing their own research. So Sonya started researching and haranguing and arguing and abusing and finally she found people who could help. But they could not heal, the family had to put all of the help together to heal their daughter. Sonya had to have the courage to do what she believed even when everyone around her thought that she had completely lost her mind. The family had one goal to get their daughter back to health and they realised they might have to move heaven and earth to do it.

Little did they know that this journey would steal 2 years of all of their lives. That the life they had known before the illness was almost like watching completely different people. This illness came close to claiming their sanity and Claudia’s life. This is the book tells the story of how against all the odds, they now have a very health boisterous 15 year old. Sadly many they met in the parallel universe are still chronically ill or have taken their own lives. After this experience Sonya firmly believes there are many suicides as a direct result of people feeling totally lost and despairing because they feel so unwell and everyone tells them their tests are normal. Sonya says “I want to scream from the roof tops. If you have no energy or you are suffering pain in your arms and legs and you have bad breath or you burp or you have cracked and peeling nails and dry skin and sleep disturbance. It is not in your head, chronic fatigue is a physical illness YOU ARE NOT WELL, NO MATTER WHAT THE DOCTORS SAY and anti depressants will make you worse.” She hopes that this book inspires people to find answers for them to take charge of their health and recognise that you can bring together the people and the protocols to heal yourself. This book is the research that she used to get Claudia better and she hopes it helps others out there looking for answers.

Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia in adolescence are insidious diseases, they steal hope perspective and time sadly the medical profession has a huge divergence of opinion on the illness the causes and the cure there just seems to be no definitive answers. The despair that this causes is deep and searing. This book is about one woman’s fight to restore her daughter to health when diagnosed with these diseases. It charts the many professionals that the family saw to try to find a cure for their daughter. Many of the health professionals dismissed the illness believing it to be a disease of malingerers. This lack of understanding of this illness and its origins is one of the defining reasons for writing this book.

Sufferers need to understand that they are not alone and that there is hope and that this illness is serious and is a real illness, it is not psychosomatic, it is not psychiatric it is a physical illness that has real symptoms and there is hope that you can put together some treatment options that may help them.

Claudia was 13 years old when her body just seemed to run out of energy. It had been a gradual process but with the start of high school and all of the changes that happened at that time the key triggers of this horrific illness where masked. It wasn’t until she passed out that the extent of the problem really became very very obvious.

Sonya Davies is the author and she lives in Melbourne Victoria with her husband of 20 years Mark and her 4 children. A professional woman who has worked in Marketing for 35 years, she had a varied and interesting career, full of travel and many diverse and interesting experiences she always felt that she was very fortunate.

She was not prepared when her 13 year old daughter Claudia passed out in her walk in ward robe and started to suffer seizures. Claudia spiralled very quickly over a period of 5 months into being seriously unwell, being unable to walk, wheel chair bound, using a toilet and shower stool and needing to be carried everywhere. She was 5 foot 5 and weighed 40 kilos. Sonya was beside herself, her life as she had known it stopped, she could not work, she could not leave her daughter alone. She was desperate to get help.

She thought she could get some answers from Doctors or a specialist and they would tell her what to do. Imagine her shock when every test that they did came back normal while her daughter kept getting more and more unwell. That was when the family entered the parallel universe, this universe operates next to but separate from the real universe, this universe is inhabited by the chronically ill, looking for treatments for health issues for which medical professionals have no answers.

She had never felt such despair or realised that such despair was possible for her. She is a positive, can do woman, every adversity has an answer you just have to connect the dots, her daughter was sick, she could not believe that she could not find a person to fix her. But every corner I turned, every doctor or health professional I took her to could not help, I got nowhere, I hit brick wall, after brick wall. My daughter was spiralling into very poor physical condition and suffering deep despair as she was constantly being told that she was hysterical and that this condition was psychosomatic.

She is a very intelligent girl and does not have a hysterical bone in her body. So telling her it was all in her head, her body had turned on pain signals and would not turn them off just made her feel more and more inadequate, obviously she had done something to make this happen. The family saw over 50 health professionals all offering other similarly unhelpful suggestions. Well not suggestions, pronouncements, they all pronounced something and sent them home in agony with no help and no idea where to get help.

Their daughter was unable to sleep, had muscles that got harder and tighter in her arms and legs any movement causing excruciating pain. She had absolutely no appetite and her weight plummeted to 40 kilos she just kept getting more and more unwell. Still every test was normal. After 6 months of investigation and still with no positive results for anything finally a rheumatologist put a name to it “Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia, very unusual combination in someone so young” Great a diagnosis, rejoice, now what do we do give us the answers. Imagine the shock when the only treatment was a prescription of anti depressants and a physio routine. The Doctor stated “there isn’t much you can do”, the most positive suggestion was, “Wait, you usually find that they will grow out of it by the time they are 21”……..7 years……..no way!

Sonya will never as long as she lives forget the day that doctor at a major Australian Hospital casually stood leaning on the wall of a corridor and told her those words. She didn’t hit him but she wanted to, she admits that she did say some very unattractive words and may have even insulted his parentage. Despair what to do it was then that she decided this is not going to stop me, I obviously we just needed a different doctor.

So the family struggled on getting test after test but becoming more and more aligned in the view that doctors would not supply the answer that they needed to look at allied health professionals the penny dropped, they realised there was not a magic answer, no one could tell them what to do and there was no treatment protocol that they could just join in with, they had to work it out by trial and error and by doing their own research. So Sonya started researching and haranguing and arguing and abusing and finally she found people who could help. But they could not heal, the family had to put all of the help together to heal their daughter. Sonya had to have the courage to do what she believed even when everyone around her thought that she had completely lost her mind. The family had one goal to get their daughter back to health and they realised they might have to move heaven and earth to do it.

Little did they know that this journey would steal 2 years of all of their lives. That the life they had known before the illness was almost like watching completely different people. This illness came close to claiming their sanity and Claudia’s life. This is the book tells the story of how against all the odds, they now have a very health boisterous 15 year old. Sadly many they met in the parallel universe are still chronically ill or have taken their own lives. After this experience Sonya firmly believes there are many suicides as a direct result of people feeling totally lost and despairing because they feel so unwell and everyone tells them their tests are normal. Sonya says “I want to scream from the roof tops. If you have no energy or you are suffering pain in your arms and legs and you have bad breath or you burp or you have cracked and peeling nails and dry skin and sleep disturbance. It is not in your head, chronic fatigue is a physical illness YOU ARE NOT WELL, NO MATTER WHAT THE DOCTORS SAY and anti depressants will make you worse.” She hopes that this book inspires people to find answers for them to take charge of their health and recognise that you can bring together the people and the protocols to heal yourself. This book is the research that she used to get Claudia better and she hopes it helps others out there looking for answers.

Health problems abound in the author’s journey through life. This is the story of Anne Martin and her battles with heart disease, obesity, depression and finally diabetes. Her grit and sense of humor get her through some pretty difficult times, and BARIATRIC SURGERY finally eliminates her diabetes. This book will show that diabetes can often be cured, and bariatric surgery is the answer.

Health problems abound in the author’s journey through life. This is the story of Anne Martin and her battles with heart disease, obesity, depression and finally diabetes. Her grit and sense of humor get her through some pretty difficult times, and BARIATRIC SURGERY finally eliminates her diabetes. This book will show that diabetes can often be cured, and bariatric surgery is the answer.

Health problems abound in the author’s journey through life. This is the story of Anne Martin and her battles with heart disease, obesity, depression and finally diabetes. Her grit and sense of humor get her through some pretty difficult times, and BARIATRIC SURGERY finally eliminates her diabetes. This book will show that diabetes can often be cured, and bariatric surgery is the answer.

In this collection of essays and poems, Dr. Robin Shapiro captures the depth of the struggles and the triumphs of a healing journey. Using her own healing path as a canvas for her words, Robin offers solace and encouragement to all who are seeking health, wellness, and happiness. Her experiences in medicine have provided rich soil for understanding the nature of compassion and skilled listening, as the people she cares for and teaches heal their lives. Throughout TOUCHSTONES, there is something that will resonate with the reader and touch those wounded places that need a soft space to land. Robin creates a healing landscape with her stories and places it on the heart as a salve that mends us in the broken places. TOUCHSTONES is a call to action... Since everything is impermanent and everyone is impermanent, healing must unfold now... TOUCHSTONES will help the reader become more aware of how precious this human life is and move in the world in a way that can bring about inner peace...

In this collection of essays and poems, Dr. Robin Shapiro captures the depth of the struggles and the triumphs of a healing journey. Using her own healing path as a canvas for her words, Robin offers solace and encouragement to all who are seeking health, wellness, and happiness. Her experiences in medicine have provided rich soil for understanding the nature of compassion and skilled listening, as the people she cares for and teaches heal their lives. Throughout TOUCHSTONES, there is something that will resonate with the reader and touch those wounded places that need a soft space to land. Robin creates a healing landscape with her stories and places it on the heart as a salve that mends us in the broken places. TOUCHSTONES is a call to action... Since everything is impermanent and everyone is impermanent, healing must unfold now... TOUCHSTONES will help the reader become more aware of how precious this human life is and move in the world in a way that can bring about inner peace...

In this collection of essays and poems, Dr. Robin Shapiro captures the depth of the struggles and the triumphs of a healing journey. Using her own healing path as a canvas for her words, Robin offers solace and encouragement to all who are seeking health, wellness, and happiness. Her experiences in medicine have provided rich soil for understanding the nature of compassion and skilled listening, as the people she cares for and teaches heal their lives. Throughout TOUCHSTONES, there is something that will resonate with the reader and touch those wounded places that need a soft space to land. Robin creates a healing landscape with her stories and places it on the heart as a salve that mends us in the broken places. TOUCHSTONES is a call to action... Since everything is impermanent and everyone is impermanent, healing must unfold now... TOUCHSTONES will help the reader become more aware of how precious this human life is and move in the world in a way that can bring about inner peace...

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