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Blood and Saliva
Tests
Available! All tests are performed in the office for a reasonable
cost. Some tests may be covered by insurance.
Cholesterol screening
Male and Female
hormones
Hair test for heavy metals
General health screening
Thyroid
Food allergy
Gastrointestinal screening
Adrenal stress
Your Referrals Are Appreciated!
206-878-2628
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www.drlynnmikel.com
Man's main task
in life is to give birth to himself. -Erich Fromm
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe, from "Faust"
| Staying in Touch Winter has
gone out like a lion with snow and cold weather! And yet, with the official beginning of Spring, colorful crocus and
daffodils are pushing up through the chilly soil to show us their faces! Remember to enjoy the sun breaks in between
the rain and snow. Better weather is on its way!
The detox support group wrapped up its last week and everyone
did a great job! The support, education, outlined diet, and supplements made it a doable challenge and success. At
the end of the third week weight and inches lost ranged from 3-15 pounds and 10-40 inches! Check out my Detox Support Group Blog and feel free to add comments or ask questions. I plan to offer the four week detox support group three times a year
with the next session beginning May 7th. Space is limited to ten people so sign up early! More information
can be found on my website.
Finding Meaning
A professional peer gave me an assessment to complete that asked
me to quantify from 1-10 where I scored in relation to my diet, sleep, digestive health, stress, water intake, life purpose,
weight, and physical health. With the objective numbers I saw I could certainly improve a couple areas but was pleased
to see more that half near the optimal number. Life purpose was near the top and I reflected on how that got to
be there and why it is such a passion of mine to empower my patients to find their life purpose and the passion that
evokes in their lives.
Most of you have lives that are filled with responsibilities, opportunities, stress, and
delights. For many of you finding health enables you to better participate in and appreciate your life. However,
those who engage in naturopathic medicine emerge into a more sophisticated model of health that is less mechanistic but involves
a deeper attention to how the body interacts with emotion and consciousness. If we view health solely from a mechanistic
model then we deny the mystery of healing. The mind has a hard time grasping mystery. It is my belief we are not
human beings in a spiritual world but spiritual beings in a human world!
Twenty five years ago someone told me
I had a purpose and a light bulb went on. Somewhere deep within me it awakened something I knew was true. It gave
me permission to live following what felt right for me instead of trying to please everybody else. I read a book called
Love is Letting Go of Fear and it was a catalyst for yet another shift. I decided to live as close to the Presence of God as possible and
that God was Love. This small simple book made me look at all my emotions as evolving from either love or fear.
If I was angry it might be because I was afraid of being hurt or not getting "enough". I began to practice
challenging those fearful feelings because deep within me I knew I was loved and could trust a larger natural spiritual
essence of life to guide me. My purpose in practicing the Presence of God became simply to learn to love better.
I read the following in an article by Dr. Rachel Naomi Ramen:
"I had a man in my practice with osteogenic sarcoma of the leg, which was removed at the hip in order to
save his life. He was 24 years old when I started working with him and he was a very angry man with a lot of bitterness, a
deep sense of injustice and a very deep hatred for all the well people, because it seemed so unfair to him that he had suffered
this terrible loss so early in life. After working with this man for a couple of years I saw a profound shift. He began 'coming
out of himself'. He began visiting other people in the hospital who had suffered severe physical losses and he would tell
me the most wonderful stories about these visits. Once he visited a young woman who was almost his own age. It was a hot day
in Palo Alto and he was in running shorts so his artificial leg showed when he came into her hospital room. The woman was
so depressed about the loss of both her breasts that she wouldn't even look at him, wouldn't pay any attention to him. The
nurses had left her radio playing, probably in order to cheer her up. So, desperate to get her attention, he unstrapped his
leg and began dancing around the room on one leg, snapping his fingers to the music. She looked at him in amazement, and then
she burst out laughing and said, 'Man, if you can dance, I can sing.'
Now I want to tell you something that happened
at the end of this man's therapy. At the end of therapy you do a review—people talk about what was significant to them
and you share what was significant to you as a therapist working with someone. We were reviewing our two years of work together;
I opened his file and there folded up were several drawings he had made early on. I wanted to return these to him, so I unfolded
them and handed them to him. He looked through them and said, 'Oh, look at this.' And he showed me one of the earliest drawings.
I had suggested to him that he draw a picture of his body. He had drawn a picture of a vase, and running through this vase
was a deep black crack. This was his image of his body and he had taken a black crayon and had drawn the crack over and over
and over. He was grinding his teeth with rage at the time. It was very, very painful because it seemed to me that this vase
could never function as a vase again. It could never hold water.
Now, two years later, he came to this picture
and looked at it and said, 'Oh, this one isn't finished.' And I said, extending the box of crayons, 'Why don't you finish
it?' he picked a yellow crayon and putting his finger on the crack he said, 'You see, here—this is where the light comes
through.' And with the yellow crayon he drew light streaming through the crack in his body.
We can grow strong
at the broken places."
She also retells a story by Dr. Bernie Siegel about John, a landscaper. He was a man who wanted, in spite of his cancer, to make beauty in the world. Rachel surmised
in her article “One can serve purpose with impaired health. One might even regain health through serving purpose
as John did!”
Reach out to those you love. Make decisions that feel right for your well-being and wholeness.
Trust there is an invisible power of which we are all a part that is supporting your life. Live like there is no tomorrow.
This is it! This is not a dress rehearsal! Don’t burden yourself with regrets! Remember “All
is Well” and act accordingly. You will empower your loved ones to do the same but it has to start with you!
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