Voices: MAP
Breaking Through Fear
I was saddened to realize how much of myself I had not made available to my treatment room team. And I was upset to realize how far these aspects of myself were from my emotions when I was thinking/worrying/ fearing my work in the treatment room ...
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Don't Wait to Crash
The very next day, I opened my MAP coning and with a matching set of black- and-blue elbows, tested for my personal Emergency Trauma Solution. I made up several bottles: one for the kitchen, one for the studio, one for the car and one for my pocket ...
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Big Girls Don't Cry
As I drove, I thought about my need to understand that I overdo things, including my emotions. Everything is so much worse for me than it is for the next person — to hear me talk about it. I realized that, after all, having dentures is a very common thing ...
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What's Black and Blue
The story I am about to tell you happened a couple of years ago. I lived in an old house in the country at the time — the kind with strange, narrow wooden stairs and no rails. My house had two sets of such stairs and both were treacherous ...
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A Healing Touch
I am a 43-year-old male with a history of back problems. I believe my back problems were caused by a genetic predisposition toward back problems. Both my mother and her brother have had back problems and back surgery, and I was told when I was in junior high that ...
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Mom's Best Friend
I went to town and was walking out of the grocery store when I saw my daughter and her papa getting out of a friend's truck. She was crying. "OK," I said, "Enough. Let's go to the doctor." Off we go to the doctor. He sends us to the hospital to get chest X-rays ...
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Seeing is Believing
We began to work with MAP, flower essences and eye exercises. Within two months of the first diagnosis, Woody returned to the eye surgeon for a second appointment. The eye surgeon remarked, "I don't know what you're doing, but it's ...
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Home Free
At first I did not know quite how to relate to my team or how to work with them. We all went through some frustrating times while I got comfortable with how to get information, how to ask questions, what I can ask of them and so forth ...
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Miraculous Recovery
Well, now I had the kick in the butt that I needed to get my attention and from that point onward, I went into serious MAP work. I'll spare you the details of the progression of the complications and allergic reactions to the antibiotics. I had to have two more surgeries ...
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Be Careful
During a MAP session if I fall asleep it's sometimes hard for me to get up and go about my day because I then feel very tired. This happened the other day and I asked my MAP team to help me ...
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