| Healing
the Whole Woman
You Are Far More Than the Sum of Your Body Parts
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“My
family practice doctor heard about your work and referred me here.
I’m desperate. Two years ago I came down with a terrible flu. I
was so weak that my knees buckled and I couldn’t even hold up my
head. My doctor called it chronic fatigue syndrome. It took a year
before I got my energy back. Two months ago it started all over
again, which surprised me since I did receive a flu shot last fall.
“People would call me a recluse. No partner and no support from
my immediate family. That leaves a giant hole in my life that I
try to fill partly with cigarettes. I’ve smoked for fifty years.
Each time I inhale, I try to fill the void. No matter what I try,
part of me just doesn’t want to stop smoking. That part of me wants
to kill myself, but not with emphysema. You’re my last chance for
hope.
“My childhood was horrendous. At sixteen my mother became pregnant.
It was obvious that she never, ever wanted me. When I turned twenty,
she actually told me how she’d tried to abort me with a clothes
hanger. I almost starved to death during my first week of life because
her nipples were inverted and I couldn’t seem to keep any formula
down. I’ve been starving ever since.
“I don’t remember my mother touching me as a child. Not even once.
Or pro- tecting me. I never felt she was my mother and she did not
feel I was her daughter. When I was six, she’d leave me at all-night
movies and lock me in the car while she drank herself into oblivion
at the bar for hours. I’ve blocked out most of my childhood.
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