Mold, yeast, lyme, parasites…friend or foe?
Some curiosities for the “bad guys” of chronic health.
What if the mold and the yeast and the parasites and the bugs aren’t your enemy, what if they’re trying to help?
I always err on the side of belief that our body and nature are on our side.
When it came to these icky enemies that even natural medicine seemed to vilify, I had a harder time seeing why.
GNM talks about these creature being aids to our healing, breaking down excess tissues that were formed in our conflict phase. That the Candida flares and parasites at the full moon are the healing phase, the release.
I’ve read all sorts of posts and spiritual perspectives on this, which vary from friends to foe.
But it didn’t click for me until I simply started to see these biodiverse creatures as symptoms.
And my main M.O. with symptoms?
Befriend them.
Understand them.
Hear their story.
Hear their wisdom.
See their highest good.
How does our relationship to mold, Lyme, Candida change when we see them as a part of our ecosystem rather than something we’re trying to annihilate?
How does the story change if you believe it’s not the mold destroying you but rather the words unsaid, the emotions un-felt?
I’ve worked with a lot of folks with these susceptibilities and one thing they all have in common: complex, deeply entrenched, emotional histories.
Their stories are full of self-suppression, needs disregarded, self-doubt and low self-worth, people-pleasing, overachieving tendencies, lack of self advocacy, suppressed anger, suppressed grief, suppressed disappointment.
Whatever the story, there’s something not being expressed, something being shoved deeper and deeper into the crevices until their body is like a dusty attic of old emotions and needs unmet.
That creates the susceptibility to bacteria and bugs.
But that susceptibility doesn’t mean mold is coming in to take over and destroy you - I really believe the mold is coming in to save you.
The Candida is here to clear you out.
The parasites are here to breakdown all the bags of stuff you’re shoving under the bed.
In all my observations, these bugs come at a time when folks need to finally come home and stand up for themselves.
If you struggle with any of these guys, look at your symptoms and notice when it flares and when it first started:
Was it a time of high stress, when you just couldn’t take it any more?
Was it when a commitment or a stressor finally ended and the dust settled?
Was it after a conflict finally erupted and resolved?
What was happening in life? How did you feel about it?
Instead of focusing all your energy on fighting the bugs that are trying to unburden you, try funnelling that energy into feeling what’s dying to be felt.
What do you wish you had said?
What feeling felt so uncomfortable and made you run?
What did you need that you didn’t receive?
Start unpacking what’s tucked away so neatly in the crevices of your body and mind, you know, all the things you’re “over”, the ones that pop up when you’re laying in bed at night or when you’re not running a million miles an hour.
I promise it will be uncomfortable and messy, but the other side will be your freedom. So make sure you call in support and say your thank yous to the bugs that have been there all along.
Love it. And so interestingly, the energetics of a lot of herbs that are traditionally used for these type of presentations align with those inquiries.