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Helping My Body Heal Cervical Dysplasia LSIL

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Let down yet again by the limitations of conventional medicine…. For 3 yrs now I’ve had cervical screenings (pap smears) showing abnormal cells. HPV causing low grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (LSIL) also know as mild cervical dysplasia. While this thankfully is not cervical cancer, there is a chance it may go on to do so. At my latest appointment, I had a conversation with my specialist :  Me : If most women naturally resolve this issue within 12mths, why would my body not do that over the past 3yrs? Specialist : Its down to your immune system not being able to clear the abnormal cells.  Me : What factors would contribute to my immune system not doing that? Specialist : Usually smoking, drinking & stress.  Me : Well I don’t smoke & I rarely drink. But I do know the last 8yrs have been very stressful for me with perimenopause, not sleeping & stress from other sources.  Specialist : (nods affirmatively) Yes stress will lower your immune system. Me :...
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Seeking Wellness

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Do you want to feel good? I did. Do you long to feel happy? Me too. Do you wish for more energy, for life to be easy?  I wished for that all that.    For me, I felt that life was hard, it can be busy and demanding. I felt sad, stressed, unwell and anxious. Modern life seemed to just increase all of these negative things.... but I felt that just isn't how life should be.  I realised I want more from life, and at the same time, I want less. I want less stress and less pain, I want less busyness. I want more calm and I want more peace. For me, I can condense this into one word - Wellness. That's what I want.  I've felt this way for so long, all my life really. I've had times where I'm aware of this need and have tried to find ways to achieve it. But life always seemed to drag me back down.  I've heard the term "living on autopilot' and that's what I felt like was doing for most of my life, just living day by day, doing what I had to do to get through. ...
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