l have been at war with my body most of my life. The battle began early on with the messages we all receive in some form about our imperfect bodies, usually in regard to their appearance.

For me, however, the messages were not about how my body looked but in regard to its function. I was told, and believed, that it was weak, sickly, damaged, and vulnerable to future disease. Future childbearing difficulties, miscarriage, infertility, cervical and vaginal cancer, were some of the predictions I, like millions of DES daughters, received from my doctor. I was 17. My mother felt guilty and I felt ruined. While small skirmishes had flared before, the war was now fully ignited with this fearful prognosis.

The forms in which I waged the war have varied through the years. Initially denial was my weapon of choice. I denied much of my female self for years, though I married and lived a pretty "normal" existence. I, however, gave the predictions enough power that I made unconscious choices and lived my life around them. I chose not to even attempt having children for many years. In other words, I didn't even conceive of conceiving!

Through a lot of inner work I overcame these fears. As a result I was easily able to become pregnant and I delivered a beautiful, healthy daughter, Alyssia, who is now 8 years old. At the onset of my pregnancy an abnormality of my cervix, which was discovered at age 17, was found to have disappeared.

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But if you are not aware of any symptom to allow you to claim a sick status, you then begin to check your emotional state. When the systems check is complete, and you've chosen your best label for what you are feeling, the real problem begins. "What am I going to do about it?"

You are now in the space between "do I call my doctor, see my acupuncturist, check in with my therapist, meditate, take those left-over antibiotics, ignore the feeling," or a myriad of other stop gap measures that have given you temporary relief in the past. Or perhaps what you would really like to do is to continue to lay in bed and scream? If you're like most of us you'll take one from Column A and one from Column B, then add a prayer and hope that everything will be all right.

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  ~ Christopher Isherwood

"Like any other major experience, illness actually changes us. How? Well, for one thing we are temporarily relieved from the pressure of meeting the world head-on.... We enter a realm of introspection and self-analysis. We think soberly, perhaps for the first time, about our past and future.... Illness gives us that rarest thing in the world—a second chance, not only at health but at life itself!"

   ~ Louis E. Bisch, Physician
     "Turn Your Sickness Into An Asset"
      Reader's Digest, November 1937

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Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is based on activating the universal (rei) life force energy (ki) to heal the body, mind and spirit using a hands-on approach—although no actual physical contact is necessary (allowing for long-distance healing as well). The trained practitioner administers Reiki by balancing the universal life energy within the chakras (energy centers) to restore health by restoring balance and harmony within the body’s energy flow.

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