“Can you help me w/ my auto-immune disorder? I am deteriorating fast. My whole body is shutting down especially on the right side. If I wasn’t getting hemo-globulin injections monthly I would not be able to use my right arm and hand.”

My first question to her was, “Were you abused as a child? Physically? Sexually??” She replied, “Both”

It started when I was nine years old as I was being abused by a stepfather. I was repeatedly abused between age nine and fourteen, most of it sexual.

For someone who has not studied this for 20 years it might seem like a leap to connect auto-immune disorders and sexual abuse. As I met this lady there were many signals that stimulated my question to her about abuse. I could have waited to hear her story, but the bigger question is how much time does this lady have? If her body is shutting down what has it been trying to tell her for a long time? She was ready to connect the dots this day and asked how can I heal this?

I said first thing you need to do is talk about it to your family. Needless to say she had held it inside all of these years telling no one. She said it sounded really strange to tell me that during this time she remembered sleeping with a kitchen knife under her pillow. I agreed and said these were the things she needed to share with family now, to clear out all the secrets. In addition to opening up to her family she needed to write about it in a journal. We worked out a routine for her including doing the breathing work every day to help her connect more deeply to her subconscious and emotions. As we get her connecting more deeply and finding more safety in her body I expect her immune system to come into balance…

Let me know if you find these questions and answers interesting and I will continue…

Love, David