The Whole Woman Way to VulvaVaginal Health

What rich knowledge is in that video! Can't wait for the online version .. and for the hips book! Thank you Christine for such invaluable knowledge.

Hi Christine

I am so looking forward to seeing this video. I know how much will have gone into it, both blood, sweat and tears, and all the research, both personal and academic that you have done on these conditions.

Louise

Please can you tell me if the new DVD has subtitles? I can not hear the words in the videos and I am thankful because I did found the recipe for the balm in writing.
Happy New Year!
Solita

Congrats to Christine, Lanny & Nikelle - you guys just continue to amaze! Can't wait for the video. - Surviving

Congratulations Christine and Lanny on your Anniversary, hope you plan on taking some time for yourselves and doing something relaxing. Have a wonderful Year, all Good Wishes and Best of Health.
Daphne XO

Congratulations on your newest project. I second Daphne on your anniversary congratulations....hope you have a glorious (and indeed well-deserved) celebration! Many thanks to all three of you for all that you have done and continue to do for the world of women! Love and Best Wishes to you all.

First, I wish you both a Beautiful Anniversary, a Healthy Happy New Year and a lasting solution to solving Lenny's Vertigo.
Second, I purchased the new video and anxiously await its arrival. What really perked my interest was the list of contents that you are addressing. For years I have worked international and nationally with research and clients addressing the effects of light on the menstrual cycle, fertitilty problems, pregnancy and on through menopause.
There is no doubt in my mind how light effects the reproductive system. So when you mentioned "natural cycles of light and dark regulate our endocrine and reproductive system " It caught my interest. I believe this information could be very helpful to the members of this forum. I am a certified Natural Family Planning Practitioner, hence the intitials NFP. For three decades I have helped women regulate their cycles, avoid, postpone and achieve pregnancy and manage their way through menopause with non-evasive and natural means. With my training and education, your excellent work Christine, makes all the sense in the world to me. Thank you, and I look forward to receiving the video. Ruth

I am sorry to hear that your husband is suffering with Vertigo, I had it a year ago, the doctor send me to bed for two weeks, to sleep as much as possible, lots of fluids and told me to do very slowly Dr Epley's exercises, they helped!
I wish him a prompt recovery!
Solita

was another great who did not follow the typical medical system.....might be something for Lanny to read up on.....sounds like a great many people have been helped by him. Best wishes!

Yes, Christine, these are the exercises that I was referring to in one of my e-mails a few weeks back. Something about getting the "floaters" in the ear to settle. - Surviving

If it is possible, he should stay away from the area where the stairs are and use the railings if he has to go up or down, do not move his head fast, until he feels back to normal please do not let him carry breakable items and especially a boiling kettle, it took me many months to get better but I am still feeling nervous using the stairs or pouring a cup of tea, I was falling everywhere, only a slight feeling of electricity running inside my head and I my body dropped to the floor seeing every thing around me but I was not able to move, I had to stay surrounded by cushions. I hope all will be fine soon and Dr. Epley's exercises will be a big help for him too I did them very slowly one time a day for about a month. Solita

Hi NFP

It is interesting that your NFP work is interested in the effect of light on the endocrine system. I have learned NFP and found it to be quite harmonious with Whole Woman.

When different 'modalities' do not disagree with each other in significant ways, it is an affirmation for both of the modalities.

Louise

Hi Louise,
I could not agree with you more. One of my first teachers in this field were John and Evelyn Billings MD. from Australia. They were marvelous doctors and pioneers in this field. John died a few years ago. They lectured all over the world and I was very fortunate to meet up with them in the States and Canada. I asked John one day why the methods of NFP are not better known in the medical world. He replied simply because there is no money in it.
Ruth

Another similarity with Whole Woman, eh?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001721/

Meniere's disease can often be controlled with treatment.

The condition may get better on its own. However, Meniere's may be chronic or disabling.

Also, I'm tisk tisking- but maybe it's not postural- maybe it's STRESS!!! Can you two find a beach to lay on for a few weeks, unplug, rejuvenate, and relax? ;)
I watched the moon rise last night right up over the ocean from a tiny faint light to a giant gibbous orange moon and my soul was nourished in a way that it has not been nor was I aware it needed.

My thoughts, prayers and love go out to both of you!

Hi Christine, Lanny and Nikelle,
Thank you so much for all your work and wisdom. Do hope your health issues find resolutions and solutions.
With love, best wishes and thanks,
Lindyxx

Many prayers coming your way, Christine and Lanny.

If it should prove to be meniere’s disease, or syndrome as doctors preferred to call it in my case as they were never too sure what it was, and let’s hope this is not the case for Lanny, the ENT specialist put me on a low salt diet and diuretics. I am really not sure that these helped all that much, but I would not say don’t follow that. They also put me on multivitamin B and I noticed that Alemama’s post referral mentioned vitamin B 12. The vitamin Bs did help.

I found eliminating food allergies also helped. I looked at anything which I had eaten 20 minutes or so before an attack. I discovered that fennel was not good. But I hardly ate that anyway. I was told coffee if it had a mould could be the culprit, although I am still not sure of that. I discovered other things like shop bought bread, peanut butter, ice cream, some cheeses, some soft drink and some chocolates seemed to set me off. Initially, this was a too diverse group of food to make much sense of until I tried reading the labels. It pretty much came down to at least one of two common ingredients; emulsifier 471 and artificial sweeteners. No-one had seemed to have heard of any difficulties with emulsifier 471, but artificial sweeteners were notorious for causing dizziness in some people; air line pilots being most newsworthy.

I naturally stopped eating anything with 471 and artificial sweeteners. Although these were not necessarily activators of every attack, at least I avoided having any that were. And I have since noticed that the use of 471 has declined since its relative heyday in the 80s when it seemed to be put into just about anything that was processed.

Although, just the other week I discovered it in fresh milk!

I am not saying these particular things would affect everyone with meniere’s in the same way, but food allergies are perhaps something to look at. Of course, when you are in this newly sensitive state, even things like a change in the weather can knock you over.

In my case acupuncture did help. I don’t know the pressure points by name, but I had one near the wrists, and one about a digit finger length from both my ankles. These did not appear to work, until another one was added to the top of my head on the right side. (The trouble seemed to be in my left ear.) I think I may have also had one over my eyebrow. It’s 25 years ago now and there was a little adjustment after the first two points had no immediate effect. But I definitely remember the one in my head gave me that knowing feeling: this one will work.

It has since been suggested to me by a highly respected ENT that the loss of hearing in my left ear later on in life may have been due to the devastating measles virus (called black measles at the time in 1946) still being in my body and flaring up. Whether this has any relationship with meniere’s I don’t know.

These measures did help but having to discover these for myself, it was a little late and I had lost further hearing, before I was able to shift the bugger.

Rest is indicated, but you are forced to rest with the attacks and soon get sick of that and getting on with life is better especially after you have thought it through and feel confident you are doing the best you can for what you have.

But the posture idea is not so silly for if it is meniere’s you will find that you cannot move your head suddenly and you prefer to walk with your head down and toes somewhat sprayed like a frightened cat’s, as your balance goes. Relaxing into posture is something to be mindful of when the eyes aren’t darting and the weight in your head (you think it is your brain) sliding and weighing it down at a strange angle.

Best wishes for your health, Fab

Hello, I am new to this forum, and have some questions regarding LS as I have recently been diagnosed with it. I am a 33 year old nursing mother (my son is 2 years) and was told by my midwife/provider that LS can come on due to suppressed estrogen levels - like in post-menopausal women. Nursing suppresses estrogen as well, so I have been trying to wean - with little success. I regained my periods when my son was 3 months old (albeit nursing day and night), so I assumed my hormonal levels were at a balanced level. I have been using cortisone cream to help reverse fusing and blistering. I have not had too much trouble lately with itching or pain. Is it worth my time to wean to increase estrogen? I am already dairy and gluten free. Would it help to introduce red clover leaf? Or will that mess with my milk supply? Any input is greatly appreciated.

Oh sorry I will post as new forum topic!

Dear Christine & Lanny,
Thankyou from the bottom of my heart for all the incredible work you do to help us.
Hoping you had a lovely Wedding Anniversary,
& wishing you all the best for a speedy recovery Lanny.
(((hugs))) & Best Wishes
Aussie Soul Sis