Health and Healing

Thursday, October 9, 2008

A New Blog for a New Purpose...

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I started a new blog called Health and Healing. In this blog, I hope to encourage myself towards better health by writing about health topics. Putting down into words these things I have read about or learned along the way. I am a registered nurse, however, I put my license to inactive status to homeschool and be a stay at home mom. I have always loved the aspect of preventive health, yet my day job when I worked focused on healing, usually by means of drugs or surgical methods. That did not always have the best of results.

Doctors and nurses both on the field are so busy that they have little time to teach their patients about true health. They become specialists in drugs or surgical procedures. Working on many floors, I knew the routines for post surgical heart surgeries, for hip and knee replacements, for same-day surgeries, for medical problems such as COPD, pneumonia, and strokes. I also knew nursing treatments for many mental disorders as directed by our psychiatric ward. But when it came to teaching someone the way to better health using means of nutrients and natural remedies and water treatments... I had little to offer. I knew a few, but that wasn't a priority in the school where I was taught, nor is it a priority in many nursing schools or even medical schools.

I have done alot of reading. I have attended alot of health seminars. I am intrigued by how wonderful God has created our bodies and how within the Bible many health topics are touched on. It is interesting to read in Genesis how he created our bodies for work, for rest, and even the foods we should eat. Oh, how we have strayed from those instructions the Lord has given us. Granted there aren't too many specific do's and don'ts in the Bible to where one can say without a doubt we shouldn't use tobacco, but there are principles that can apply to many health questions today. My focus on my continuing education has been on preventive health and on the natural processes that we were created with.

Now, having said all that, I have to admit that I am human. I may have read all this good stuff and I may understand that it is good to follow, but to actually change my life so that I am living within these principles has not always been easy. I need reminders. I need encouragment. I need continuing education. I imagine that many have those same desires... to be healthy, but how? ...to not have to depend on doctors or drugs for simple health ailments, but how? ...to raise up healthy kids, but how?

I won't have all the answers, but I hope to share some things as I recall, as they are pertinent to my life, and as I am planning programs at my church. Maybe the bits that I share will be the encouragement that others need to face their day or a struggle they have. May God use this blog to encourage others. For it is not my wisdom, it is God's.

Warmly, ~Melissa
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