Articles throughout this year will be a series of healing articles about my arthritic hip healing journey and then healing after arthroscopic hip surgery. I have been dealing with hip pain due to arthritis for the past several years. When I had it checked out, my orthopedist told me that even though I am too young now, at some point I will need a new hip due to degenerative arthritis. This less than wonderful news was very upsetting to me, but now it was time to augment my healing with Reiki. Then, she went back to normal. So back to my workouts as there’s really nothing to do yet except deal with the occasional pain from arthritis and continue Reiki to help.
During one of my training sessions last April, I realized that something was terribly wrong. After the workout and the next day, I didn’t have the usual soreness feeling like I had a great workout. It was a sharp, continuous pain that we discovered shortly after through an arthrographic MRI, which now had a labral tear. My goodness, that pain was terrible and continued to be terrible for the rest of the year, even with Reiki, physical therapy, and prolotherapy injections to promote natural healing! When I felt like enough was enough, my doctor and I decided that arthroscopic surgery was for me to repair the tear in my labrum and whatever else was found there. This surgery was performed on January 30, 2020.
The following series of articles was written as a summary of the healing that has taken place over the course of the last year and a half to where I am now post-surgery, and all the different modalities I have used during the process. It is my hope that through my writing, people who read my articles will see that there is no one healing modality that is one and done. True healing takes place throughout your life, and sometimes, even when you think you’ve gotten over a particularly difficult life experience, you probably haven’t released as much of that problem as you think. So over the next few months, I will be sharing with you the transformational healing process that occurred while working on my arthritis hip, along with the different healing modalities I used and how they helped me through a very difficult and painful period. time in my life Hopefully, traveling through my personal healing journey, everyone will seek the help they may need in learning that we are all unique. And so is our process, which is why I tell all my clients to be patient, as healing anything is definitely a process.
I have been practicing Reiki now for over 10 years and am now a Reiki Master and Medical Reiki Master. My Reiki teachings are very personal to me in the fact that I have learned the hard way that long held emotional pain does, in fact, wreak havoc on your physical body. The test for me was cancer twice! Sadly it took me a while to digest but let it settle! The emotional pain contained within me created cancer in my body TWICE!
Some time ago I wrote an article about how internalized emotions turn into physical pain. What I didn’t know at the time is that pain that sometimes comes to you in the form of arthritis, a deterioration in your bones, and it could be due to holding on to anger. I learned this from a beautiful light worker, Rita V Klyauzova who, through the Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique. She was able to show me exactly what was being held inside of me. Through Rita’s way of healing, she helped me learn that she still needed to forgive those past emotional pains that she was apparently holding onto so tightly.
My fear was that if I didn’t do the work to release all my emotional stuff before surgery, the arthritis problem could continue with a vengeance or even worse in the same area. So of course now I need to do some digging and this is what I found:
Release Fear and Anger to Heal Arthritis, July 9, 2019 by Christiane Northrup, MD (1) https://www.drnorthrup.com/heal-arthritis-release-fear-anger/
“Pain of any kind has emotional roots. In fact, studies show that emotional factors are crucial to the development of rheumatoid arthritis. Emotions associated with arthritis are often unexpressed anger, resentment, aggression, criticism (of one self and others), lack of support, and fear. Experts suggest that one of the reasons women get RA four times more often than men is that they are taught from childhood not to express anger.” (1)
I came across another article written by Jeanette Raymond, PhD on September 9, 2012 called Unexpressed Anger and Stress Predispose Women to Rheumatoid Arthritis. (2) https://losangeleswestsidetherapy.com/2012/09/09/la-ira-no-expresada-y-el-estres-predispone-a-las-mujeres-a-la-artritis-reumatoide/
“A report in the 1964 Journal of Chronic Disease reviewed research on the amount of personality of those with physician-diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis and found that patients tend to be self-sacrificing, masochistic, conformist, self-conscious, timid, inhibited, perfectionist. , and interested in sports and games”. (2)
I’ve done so much inner work throughout my life to be okay, and after two bouts of cancer, I really didn’t think I was still holding on to anything. I thought I had released all, if not most, of the emotional pain from my past. Oh boy was I wrong… residual emotional pain from my past that was still held within me helped generative arthritis and then due to compromised hip a labral tear was very easy to pull off. I worked with Reiki every night while lying in bed on my hip, but walking around and living life every day didn’t help it heal at all, as the arthritis helped it continue to deteriorate and fray the labrum.
Even after practicing Reiki for 10 years, helping others, and doing my own inner work, it seems like I still have a healing journey ahead of me. The conclusion that I would like to share here is that forgiveness heals all. So forgiveness is where my journey begins.
If you find yourself in a place where your life is no longer working for you, find a healer who resonates with you and allow them to help you find a way to change the dance in your life. And if you are on your own healing journey, I will remind you that healing is complicated. And it takes time, so be patient with yourself. It’s not my strong point, I admit, but that’s why I share my story.
I have been lucky enough to meet many different types of healers who have helped me on my journey along the way. I was lucky to have found Rita, and a client of mine brought her to me. Words cannot begin to thank either of them enough for the loving light and knowledge they gave me when our paths crossed. It just shows you that everything in life is in divine timing. It’s my time to release some stuff and fix this hip.
My mission is to help people find the light, either through healing sessions that I can provide, sharing the work of other healers, or through my own personal healing experiences that I have shared. If I can help just one person with any of these things, then I’m glad I did. So keep your eyes peeled for the next part of my healing journey:
Shadow work releases pain, bringing light! Let’s dive in!
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Another great read with useful information if you have the time:
Emotions like anger and sadness can cause pain as well as be the result of Marjorie S. Miller, Pennsylvania State University September 10, 2018
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-09-emotions-anger-sadness-pain-result.html