Comments on: Poisoned, Moon Dayed & Just Generally Abused

By: karen

karen — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:37:55 +0000

Oh, Liz, you are so right about how the crappy practices make the good ones so much better. I had a terrific practice this morning. Thank goodness, too, because then I had a mad crazy day at the office. At least my day was great until 8 AM!

I’m thinking I’ll try to avoid being greedy on Moon Days from here on in. Try. Try. Try.

Phantom shame trees. Only you, Carl

Susan, I’m gonna bail early next time I feel that awful in practice. I don’t think it did anything for my constitution to proceed despite feeling so bleh.

Hi Arturo. I forgot about your mercury experience. I kind of joked about the tuna poisoning, but it’s probably a pretty real risk…

By: susananda

susananda — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:19:49 +0000

Eh, when I have a practice like that I bail out around bharadvajasana

Liz, if your Mom reads your blog can’t you get her to understand how important your eating changes have been to your sense of well-being? And anything else you don’t want to eat for other reasons, I would just throw under the same umbrella. I think people who care about us can be less understanding of ‘rational’ reasons for food choices, but they DO want us not to feel sick and bloated all the time, right?

Sorry for the blog hijack, Karen, and hope you feel better..

By: Carl

Carl — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:27:31 +0000

What would happen if you should tell The Gift that you watch Girls Next Door, even though you don’t? If she should lay the shame onto you for that, then maybe it would be phantom shame and you would be impervious to it because it’s not true. It would be like a shame tree falling in a forest, with nobody around to hear it.

By: arturo

arturo — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:43:02 +0000

hi Karen
since i had my little bout with mercury poisoning – i could share that eating a lot of fiber and drinking a lot of fluids, and following your usual diet will flush the mercury out. even though i consumed a LOT of mercury by accident, it was not over the normal limit of safety, so i think in your case you would have minimal exposure. i used to eat turkey at Xmas and now it feels too fleshy so i don’t, so i understand your aversion to eating meat or fish even at a family gathering.
hugs
Arturo

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:14:53 +0000

Oh Karen… so interesting that you blogged about this situation since I had my own “home visit” meal dilemma. I can’t write about it since my mom reads my blog (and sometimes my dad). She would feel horribly guilty and silently freak out. Anyway, I’m so sorry you feel sick and that it comes from doing something that was meant to be loving!! I ate things with my parents that I do NOT want to eat anymore… but… it’s hard to decline when there’s no understanding of why someone would not want to eat such things… you know what I’m talking about. It feels like I’m not being a good guest, or something weird like that. I didn’t get poisoned by the food I ate, but certainly didn’t feel nourished and it just didn’t sit well with my brain. I’m already devising a plan on how to survive Thanksgiving.

Remember, the good thing about a crappy practice is knowing how wonderful a good one feels! And, if you ever feel this way again, you’ll know that maybe it’s better to take the day off and feel crappy in front of the TV! Hope you’re feeling better soon.