Surgery Time.

The research begins.
After coming out of hospital, I began fervently researching this disease on the internet. I wanted to know what others did to survive it, what the prognosis of it was and any medical information I could get my hands on. This research went on for years. It became an obsession of mine because the endometriosis affected pretty much every aspect of my over all lifestyle in terms of what I ate, my energy levels, my social life, my work, my romantic life and my sex life. It affected the very core of my being. Not only did I have endometriosis, I also had a lower back injury and repetitive strain injuries related to the work I did and I also think I had fibromyalgia because all my muscles just felt sore and stiff and I was constantly at the physio and osteopath or chiropractor trying to sort my pain out.Fast forward to year 2012.
I want to tell you where all this ended up, and then I will go into all the things I tried to find relief from this disease where I no longer suffer. My life looks extremely different now than what it did back in the day I found out I had endometriosis and the 8 years that proceeded it. In 2012 I made a drastic career change. I left a very secure job that I really hated and had been in for nearly 10 years. I was a professional flute player, and I had been in the Royal Australian Airforce Band as an Air Force Musician which I joined back in 2002. The job was ok for the first 2 years, but then I got trapped in the security it provided over what my heart really wanted, which was to have total freedom to express my creativity. But I was too fearful to leave it because there are not a lot of opportunities as a musician to gain secure employment, so I felt stuck. I really didn’t want to go back to the student days where I had no money and always felt concerned as to how I was going to pay my next bill.I went into the health and fitness industry.


Music took a back seat.
Music really began to take a back seat as I explored all things related to what conditions must be present to have a healthy body and mind. I studied meditation and Qigong, Emotional Freedom Technique and other energy psychology methods. I discovered Donna Eden and bought some of her books and DVD’s to learn about energy medicine techniques. I read books by Bruce Lipton such as The Biology Of Belief, as well as books by Deepak Chopra. I was particularly interested in people who had been in a mainstream medical field, but also moved over to holistic health and wellness. I wanted to understand modern science which combined ancient knowledge. I felt taking the best of both worlds was really important rather than relying heavily on only one.The different things I tried to rid myself of endometriosis.
Diet.
When I was first diagnosed with endometriosis, I thought that nutrition was what I most needed to change. So I experimented with different kinds of diets such as gluten free, vegetarian, vegan, dairy free, sugar free. While some of these approaches helped my symptoms a little, they were not the ultimate answer I was looking for.Supplements.
I tried a number of different supplements and signed up for various MLM companies such as Amway, Young Living, Herbalife and others which offered high quality nutritional supplements. Once again, symptoms were a little better, but still not the answer I was looking for, and apart from anything else, all these things were very expensive!Probiotics.
If there is one supplement I would highly recommend for endometriosis it would be a high quality probiotic. I took a strong probiotic for 18 months straight and I did find this helped me to feel better over all. I used to suffer from severe seasonal allergies, and after taking this probiotic I suddenly realised one day that I no longer got allergies. Part of my over active immune system (which can be part of the problem of endometriosis) had calmed down and I had more energy. When I combined gluten free diet as well as dairy free and probiotics for an extended period of time, I did genuinely feel better, but I was not free of endometriosis symptoms completely, and I also found it very hard to maintain a gluten free diet. I kept looking.Bikram Yoga.
I had listened to a lot of Wayne Dyers podcasts over these years, and he talked a lot about Bikram Hot Yoga and how much it had helped him and he would also often recommend it to the people who called in to ask questions about their life on his podcast. One day a friend of mine who I worked with said she had just tried Bikram yoga and that I should try it too. I was actually not aware there were any studios in the state and country that I lived as I assumed it must have just been an American thing. But there was one close by, so I went and tried it. After the first class, I was hooked. It was the hardest class I had ever taken and the heat in the room made me want to just scream and run out. But I kept listening to the teacher and stayed in the room and completed the class.
Scenar and Enar Therapy.
I have forgotten the details as to how I came across Scenar therapy-which is an electro based therapy which evolved from the Russian Space program. While it did not cure my endometrisos, it had a profound affect on my emotional life. I felt alive after a few sessions and so confident and happy about my life direction. It lead me to making changes that I would never have imagined I would make. I began to realise that emotions are a key to physical health. Though I didn’t continue with Scenar therapy due to cost and inconvenience of getting to appointments, it did lead me to want to understand electrotherapy for myself and that is why I qualified as an Enar therapist (which was based on the Scenar Therapy).Meditation.
One day I remember feeling so much despair over my condition that I literally prayed to some higher power while in meditation and asked what I really needed to do to be free of this condition (I am not religious at all or even that spiritual. At the time I really could not fathom that there was anything other than what we could perceive with our five senses). The answer (to my surprise) came back very clearly. ‘Deep relaxation’ was the answer. I knew it was not referring to the kind of relaxation such as just taking a holiday. It went way beyond that. It was telling me I needed a deep calm about my whole life and to really find my centre. I knew it was asking this of me (whatever ‘it’ was) because I had a pattern of frantically striving to be more than what I thought I was, and therefore did not accept who I really was because I felt inadequate in some way. I felt powerless in my life. I didn’t trust my own power to create wonderful things.The lights went on.
This was a real ‘aha’ moment. It lead me to read authors such as Carolyn Myss and listen to podcasts by Medical Intuitive Mona Lisa Schultz MD. I took short online courses by Carol Tuttle. All of these experts talk about ‘energy’ and how it flows in the body, and things you can do to get it flowing and therefore affect your biology in positive ways. When I took my yoga teacher training course, this knowledge was further solidified in my mind as I learned that yoga is far more than just a series of postures and breathing exercises. It activates the flow of energy in the Chakra system which up until this point I thought was just an esoteric concept. As it turns out, the chakras can be verified by medical science in that there are bundles of extra nerves at these centres which emit stronger electrical signals than other places in the body. I was really beginning to connect the dots.NES Health.
One day I was watching an energy healing movie called The Living Matrix which I had discovered through the various health podcasts subscriptions I had, and I there was a point where an Australian by the name of Peter Fraser was talking about the body field. He stood out to me because he was the only person in the movie who was an Australian, AND he was basing his ideas on scientific research in quantum physics that he had conducted over 30 years. He had developed a health modality called NES health and I found out there were practitioners of this modality all over the world. I looked for a practitioner in Melbourne where I lived and found a few. I was excited. I booked in with one and got my first body field scan. I took the recommended remedies, and within two weeks I was wanting to become a practitioner myself. The emotional shift I experienced was profound-more profound than the Scenar therapy, and was way more convenient. I became very positive about my life, and my creativity blossomed. I felt the urge to reconnect with music and began to write my own music. It was like the creative centre of my being was opened up. NES health was the turning point for me to really embrace alternative methods of healing. I experienced more relief from endometriosis, but once again, it still was not the whole picture for me. But I was learning that each positive change that I made in my life had an affect on my body and I was able to cope much better with endometriosis. NES health lifted my life up emotionally and I felt more alive. People at work even began to notice I seemed more positive and upbeat. So, I went and qualified as a NES health practitioner. It was the beginning of a lifelong fascination with quantum biology and frontier medical science.I taught yoga based programs for 5 years.
Through my teaching and practice of meditation and using NES health, I really began to like myself more. My confidence in myself grew. I really enjoyed helping others to feel better, and I enjoyed feeling better too. I taught yoga for three and half years part time as well as practicing NES health where I took on clients where I combined my health coaching skills while I was still in my old job, and 18 months full time after I left my Air Force job. When I finally left my job, the deep relaxation that I was guided to seek a few years back really began to sink in. However, it was not the end of the story. I was still being plagued by endometriosis, though not as badly mainly because of all the changes and health practices I had adopted.My relationship with my partner.
It was around this time that my long term parter and I really began to have problems. He wanted to have children, and I did not. Well, it was not that I had absolutely decided that I didn’t want them, it was more that I was sitting on the fence, and there never seemed like a good time to start trying to have them because I was so busy pursuing my long awaited dreams of freedom and working in an area that I really enjoyed. I felt I had stayed in the Air Force way too long, and had some catching up to do in the area of career in relation to doing fulfilling work. I also think over the years I had fallen into thinking I was infertile because of the endometriosis and I would need that other surgery to get my organs unstuck and then need IVF to get pregnant and all the rest of it and that is something that I really didn’t want to do. So I think I kind of trained my mind not to want children in one way. Besides, I was way more interested in exploring the mysteries of healing and the universe than to be bogged down with the practicalities of having a family.
I separated from my partner.

The stress of self employment.
Despite the fact I had found a deep happiness leaving the job I disliked in the Air Force to pursue self employment based on the passions and interests I had, it also lead to discord within my relationship which left me feeling torn. I was fast going in a direction that would not lead me to having children due to my drive to create bigger and bigger things. There was no time in my schedule to even consider having children. But when my partner and I separated it was a real awakening about the things that were important to me. I began to realise that the direction I was going was driven more by ego than from the heart, and I think this is why I was burned out. There is only so long you can do things based on ego. I also realised at the time I had hit the same brick wall with my music and that is the reason I was burned out from that too. I was extrinsically motivated (without realising it) rather than intrinsically motivated which means I was always looking for some external validation rather than doing things from the heart. It is not that nothing was driven by the heart, but I was out of balance.I decided to stop being ambitions for the first time in my life.

Reunited with partner.
I also wanted to get back together with my partner and decided that we would try for a child without doing anything such as surgery or IVF or anything else. In my mind, I would need to fall pregnant completely naturally without ‘striving for it’ in any way shape or form. I had decided if I could not fall pregnant, then my relationship with my partner was over completely, and I would go on my own way back into my health business with clarity of mind that my body had decided that pregnancy was not for me, and I was ok with that, because I wasn’t wild about having children anyway. I knew there was no way I could continue to have a relationship with him when he so desperately wanted to children, and therefore if my body wouldn’t do it, he would just have to be with someone else.My body responded immediately.
Knowing what I know now through experience and personal research, the body responds to everything you think and feel and the environment you put yourself in. Very shortly after I began this new job, I felt like I was going though hormonal changes. I felt hot and strange, and I remember I had two periods where I had so much bleeding and clots and what looked thick uterus lining coming out of me that I thought perhaps I was going into some kind of early menopause. My cycle suddenly became all over the place. I didn’t understand what was going on. The cramping was so intense, and I was so nauseous and dizzy.I fell pregnant.

My daughter is 3 years old now.
I have not had any issues with endometriosis since falling pregnant and giving birth to my daughter. My periods for the most part just ‘sneak up’ on me now where I don’t get the warning signs I used to get before I had a period coming. The hormonal headaches and migraines I used to get no longer occur and I don’t need any pain medication at all for my periods. I don’t have joint and muscle pain anymore and my lower back does not give me any real problems at all. Do I think this is because of pregnancy given that it is known that endometriosis can be helped from pregnancy? Well, partly yes, but mostly no. Some woman have found their endometriosis gets much worse after pregnancy, so it is not a given that pregnancy cures endometriosis. It was a very long road for me to get to this point and all the health study I did to understand my body and mind better contributed to every choice I made about my life since being diagnosed in 2004. Does everyone have to change their job and life in such drastic ways? No, I don’t believe they do. I believe there are short cuts.
So what is the key to healing endometriosis or putting it in remission?
I believe the most important thing when trying to understand a physical condition you may have is the understanding that you are made up of energy before you are a physical body. The way you experience energy is through your emotions. People think they are depressed and upset because of the disease they may have, but in truth, your emotions are the root of the disease in the first place, and it stems back to what you experienced in your childhood or other events in your life and the perceptions you took on as a result. Your nervous system acts as an antennae to your environment which includes the thoughts you think and the emotions you have and the experiences you had mostly between the ages of 0 and 6 years old. These are the years your brain is in more of a delta brainwave mode where you are ‘downloading’ information about the world and forming your beliefs about it, whether they are true or not.
You don’t need years of therapy to sort out your problems.
The idea that the subconscious mind is running our life might lead us to believe we need to go through years of therapy to sort things out. But I don’t believe this needs to be the case. In fact, while psychotherapy can be a very useful and important tool at times, other times I think it can actually make things much worse as you are forced to ‘re-live’ the dramas and challenges in your life as you talk about all the problems you have ever had from childhood to present time. All this is doing is reinforcing the destructive thought patterns you have which is causing your body to respond with challenging health conditions. The key, regardless of what healing modality you choose, is tapping into your bodies innate intelligence through energy techniques which help you to become a more resilient thinker and problem solver and open a pathway for you to be intuitively guided. The ancients knew this. But our modern world has largely forgotten our bodies intelligence. You must be willing to become an experimenter to find the health or relief you are looking for.Energy medicine and meditation are powerful tools for healing.
Based on what I have experienced and researched, I know for sure that using energy medicine and meditation is a powerful tool towards finding relief for any health condition. It calms your nervous system down, helps you deal with stress, improves your emotions and allows you to think more clearly about your life and your relationships and your work situation, and what healing path your will take. It can take the form of practices such as Emotional Freedom Technique, acupuncture, electro therapy (such as Scenar therapy, Miheath device or other pulsed electromagnetic tools), Qigong, Yoga, Chinese Medicine, NES Health or a combination of all of these energy techniques.
My recommended course of action today.
Knowing what I know now, if I was newly diagnosed with endometriosis today, I would take this route:- Get top advice from a surgeon who specialised in endometriosis. Be clear about what you are dealing with and whether or not there is an urgent need for surgery at this point.
- Begin a 6-12 month NES Health treatment protocol to help you work through unresolved emotional issues and give you more energy and positivity to deal with your condition. This will have a a direct affect on your physiology. This is a key piece of the puzzle.
- Eat a healthy diet, but don’t be too concerned about going gluten free or dairy free or avoiding generally accepted healthy foods unless you have a known food allergy. Diet was not the key to my remission at all. I still drink coffee today, and I still eat gluten, red meat and dairy, and I don’t skip dessert on the occasion it is available. However, I did know I am sensitive to anything in excess of these foods, so moderation for me is key.
- Exercise has so many health benefits as well as mood enhancing properties and pain relieving properties that it just can’t be ignored as a treatment option in your healing plan. I cannot emphasise this enough. You don’t have to run a marathon, but taking a walk for 30 minutes every day and keeping your step count up (10,000 steps per day is the recommended amount for good health). Combine this with a healthy diet and you will go a long way towards your weight and fitness goals, as well as feeling better about yourself and life in general.
- Begin a meditation program such as Qigong which combines sitting meditation and moving meditation. Qigong is also an energy practice based on the Chinese medicine system so you get the best of both worlds in terms of energy medicine and meditation.
- Lastly, be prepared to examine your life and your dominant emotional patterns. This is a personal journey that can change your life for the better. Try to see your disease as an opportunity rather than a curse.
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tracy
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What a lovely story has been told here. It’s great you have a happy ending.
I believe this website will help a lot of women , and the mind/ body connection is we all have to figure out for ourselves.
I don’t want children myself, but I enjoyed reading through your site as a lot of great information and you are a very insiring and hard working lady. It comes across on your pages.
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admin
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HI Tracy, thanks for your comment. Glad you enjoyed the read!
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Matt's Mom
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Wow, you endured a LOT! And then at from such an early age. I did not know that it could affect a woman at such an early age. And what a brave person to give up the security of a job (even though you hated it) to go for something you love and is probably so much more rewarding. You have done a fantastic job and you sound so diverse with a lot going for you. Great Story!
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Thank you! I appreciate your feedback and encouragement. Yes, endometriosis affects 1 in 10 women, and it seems to be on the rise, but it is common for it to take years for it to be properly diagnosed. All the best to you too!
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Karen
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Thank you for sharing your story, what an inspiration to never give up at the first hurdle. I’ve recently been introduced to the idea of energy medicine through a friend who suggested I try a homeopathy after the traditional route wasn’t helping for a medical issue I’ve been dealing with. Your story demonstrates that not only are our bodies receptive to natural healing, but also it can have a profound effect on wellbeing and health. Best wishes, Karen
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Hi Karen, thanks for stopping by. Homeopathy can be good, but it is a bit hit and miss because there is nothing that is diagnostic about it (in that there are no tests or scans you can do to determine what might be going on). If you are open to energy medicine, try NES Health before you try homeopathy because it has more science behind it with ongoing medical studies and case studies to prove its effectiveness. It is not as well known as homeopathy, but it is a true advancement on it, as well as an advancement on Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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Katie
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Like you I suffered from this condition which ultimately ended in surgery, I found your article informative and interesting and certainly gives you a different prospective when dealing with illness, a wise heart surgeon once told me that we need to really listen and get to know how our body works and I also believe mindset plays a bit part in how we deal with the every day stresses in life and how to manage ill health when it comes along. I was very interesting the the Living Matrix video and I am certainly going to be looking at this in more detail. There are many woman suffering from this especially younger woman and this gives another approach to coping with it.
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Hi Katie. Thanks for your comment. Glad you found the Living Matrix interesting. It was the movie that sparked my journey with NES Health and I have not looked back since. Endometriosis seems to be more and more common these days, or perhaps it is just more readily diagnosed now as there is more awareness about it. If you don’t mind me asking-what has helped you the most when it comes to endometriosis? Did surgery result in a reduction in pain for you?
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Hi Karen
Your article is awesome. I could not stop until I read it fully. It will be a great help to women who are having gynecology problems.Also, it is an inspiration for all to fight back. You have explained about the importance of yoga, Meditation, gluten-free food, non-dairy food etc.,
I came to know that probiotic can control allergies from your article which will be very useful for people who have allergic conditions. Finally, I have one question. What is Bikram Yoga? You have mentioned about therapies, authors many other techniques related to yoga and meditation. Your path to success is great.Finally, I have one question.Can you explain what is Bikram Yoga?
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Hi Prabakaren, Bikram yoga is a form of yoga that is done in a hot room heated to 39 degrees celsius. It has a set of 26 postures that are the same for every class. It is a particular method of yoga and has been franchised all over the world. You can learn more about it here. Thanks for visiting!
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I am always very happy to find out when people take control of their mental, emotional, and psychological well being. Often, falling physically ill is the impetus for them to start taking charge. Good for you for taking control of your life in the complete and most holistic sense possible.
I think that people should be taught about emotional and mental well being with as much importance as they are taught reading and writing. Knowing yourself in the fullest way possible is surely the key to a good life.
Congratulations on your journey and having your daughter.
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admin
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Thank you Celeste! I agree with you completely! There is a lot of focus on cognitive activities when it comes to school, but not on emotional and mental wellbeing. Kind of backwards in a way because if we don’t have health in those areas, it makes everything else pretty hard!
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Wow, what an inspiring story. Thank you for sharing with us, these personal moments. I have another reproductive system condition called PCOS. I’ve seen huge results with diet changes, exercise, and medication.
I’ve heard about energy medicine recently.. your story has picked my curiosity on the subject even more…
I want to know more about Traditional Chinese Medicine as I like the fact that they explain the root of things. Whereas conventional medicine has a different, symptom-oriented approach.
I love the message this blog conveys!
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Hi Didi, yes PCOS is another one of those disorders that is all too common and often women with endometriosis also have PCOS too. There are many practitioners that are saying that energy medicine is the medicine of the future. I tend to agree, because there are so many chronic health conditions that conventional medicine has no real answers for. Conventional medicine is best at dealing with emergency situations, but when it comes to chronic conditions for the most part, drugs are the only solution that doctors can offer for the most part, which can have a range of side effects that can sometimes be worse than the actual condition itself. If you are interested in energy medicine as well as traditional chinese medicine, then NES health would be something you might want to look into, as it combines the two. One of the founders of NES Health was a chinese medicine practitioner and he originally set out to prove the existence of the energy meridians. But it lead him to much bigger discoveries too.
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angie
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Hello
This is such an interesting article. I do believe that meditation can help with illnesses and I know that your emotional state can come from childhood but how does a physical illness come from childhood (unless you inherited a disease)?
I am glad you were able to overcome and thank you for sharing this with us. I will have to take some time and look into this.
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Hi angie, a physical illness can come from childhood due to a prolonged stress response. When we look at health from the perspective of energy, what can happen is an emotional trauma from childhood can change the bodies energy field, and in energy medicine the body field is seen as the master controller of our physiology. This is new cutting edge research, and still in its infancy in so many ways. But as Einstein once said -‘The field is the sole governing agency of the particle.’ You can read about some clinical trials around this theory here.
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Marlaine
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Wow, what a journey you have been on! I too went through years and years of ridiculously painful periods. Blacking out from the pain, taking 6+ extra strength painkillers and then following with 3 more an hour later… just to function. CRAZY now that I look back at it. My doctor never even suggested endometriosis, and it frustrates me now that all he suggested was my going on the pill to even things out. I wonder if I had it then. I had so many similar symptoms as you – including lower back pain!
For me, getting pregnant changed everything, cycle wise! Things are SO much better now… And for that I’m so thankful.
Thanks for sharing your story!
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HI MarIaine. It’s crazy how many doctors don’t seem to recognise the symptoms of endometriosis despite the fact that it is so common! It think things are changing now, and I also think the support of Facebook groups and other social media groups help woman recognise what they might be dealing with sooner than later these days, which is a plus for social media. I went through all of this pre Facebook days, and it sure would have been great to have some support of other women going through the same thing at the time I was trying to figure everything out. Thanks for stopping by and congrats on your pregnancy and for getting relief from this condition! Sounded like you health with more pain than I did!
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Robby
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Liz, great post I must say. Amazing how you overcame your challenges as I’m sure it sculpted you into the person you are today. Kudos for that. I enjoyed when you said we are energy before physical bodies and how we experience energy thru our emotions. I do believe also that our current state of mind dictates our lives, which is where meditation comes in to help with present moment awareness. I also practice good nutrition and exercise-based lifestyle like you recommend. Something major that some people do not realize is that some of these techniques are FREE. Great article, amazing insight/personal experience, and actionable wisdom. Thank you so much.
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HI Robby, yes FREE is totally underrated a lot of the time. Sometimes I think we get it in our heads that things need to be expensive and complicated to make it worth our while. But this is often not the case!
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