Category Archives: Causes of Fatigue

Life Keeps Getting Better with Terry Hernon MacDonald

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There is a feeling that comes along with fatigue. Well, there are quite a few actually.

One of my least favorite was hopelessness. That feeling that no matter what you do or don’t do you will never really feel like your old self. The self that was tireless, funny, enthusiastic and high on life. Remember that super woman energetic you?

My friend Terry taps out a daily blog that never fails to lift my spirits and, where the spirits go the body is soon to follow.

Here is a post from Terry Hernon MacDonald, founder of Happy Girl Musing. It is titled “Life Keeps Getting Better.” Enjoy.

We’ve all heard the garbage about a woman over age 35 meeting a decent man being about as likely as her dying in a plane crash. Yesterday, I met yet another woman who defied that nonsense.

She’s 53, positive-minded, active, and an enthusiastic newlywed, but she could have been a real sad sack. She had plenty of cause to feel sorry for herself. In April 2007 (11 months ago), she was hit by a car and told she would ever walk again.

Doctors said they’d have to amputate her right foot. She refused to believe them.

Call it faith in God, call it the Law of Attraction, call it whatever you want: She determined that a power mightier than modern medicine created her and would heal her foot. She would walk again.

Do I need to tell you that she did not lose her foot? That she was walking fluidly– without a limp — 11 months later? Now, I can’t say what her foot looks like under the sleek high-heeled boot she wore; she did say it’s been fortified with pins.

But whatever it looks like, it’s not stopping her. As I said, she’s newly married and clearly enjoying life. I wish I’d had the chance to ask her about her new husband, especially how she met him.

My guess is she did it the same way she healed her foot. She surely wouldn’t be the first person who succeeded in meeting the man of her dreams this way.

To learn more about Terry why don’t you tune into my interview with her on the “Secrets of Attraction.” You are gonna love to hear what she has to say …

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Women’s Health – Take the Tired Woman Quiz

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Are you a tired woman? This may sound like a strange question but so many of the women we serve didn’t know they were tired!

For one thing, fatigued women tend to be Super Women over achievers! They are sooooo busy helping everyone else they lose track of their feelings – physically, emotionally and spiritually. Asking an exhausted woman how she “feels” is about as constructive as asking her about her hobbies or what she does for fun or which girlfriend she hooked up with last week. These are dead-end questions because fatigue is chip, chip, chipping away at her youth, joy, enthusiasm, simple pleasures, free time, dreams, friendships, marriage …

Women who are tired don’t tend to have hobbies or time for bubble baths or coffee dates with girlfriends. Instead of enthusiasm they often feel overwhelmed, resentful and angry.

STOP this vicious cycle. STOP your denial. You are the only one who can help yourself AND you are here on this page because you know something’s gotta change.

Click here and please proceed directly to the Tired Woman Quiz. http://www.FatigueBeGone.com/tired_woman_quiz.

PSST. First put the oxygen mask on yourself, then you can help all the people you want. Tired women tend to do this backwards, right? Been there – done that and that’s how I became an expert on this Women’s Health Topic!

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Adrenal Fatigue – Question from a reader

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After years of being on prednisone, I’ve been diagnosed with adrenal fatigue – believe me I have all the symptoms. I’m in the process of reading Dr. Wilson’s book which seems wonderful so far; except for all the foods he states you have to totally give up. Luckily, I’m working with a doctor that addresses adrenal fatigue, he has given me 5 different vitamin supplements to take – I’ve been on them for 3 weeks now and see no help. My main concerns are muscle loss and crashing at about 6:00pm, then up restless with crazy thoughts all night long. I’m changing my diet as best I could, based on Dr. Wilson’s book. One question is if you know anything about vinegar or licorice root as a support or hindrance to this condition (I’ve googled pros and cons). Another question is has to do with what supplements have helped “real” people and which have shown no help. I thank you for your time and look forward to your response.
-Nan

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Dear Nan,

First of all … Congratulations! You’re aware that you have a problem and you are taking action! You are one of the lucky ones. Too many women stay stuck in denial or avoidance, focused on caring for every other body, but not their own.

Next, thank you for your note. Whew! There is a lot here! I will do my best to share some “lay woman” experience with you.

First of all, Dr. Wilson’s book is excellent. It was one of the many self-help and self-health books I poured through during my own recovery. I can’t remember all the things he says to give up … Recovery is a process where you change a little here and integrate a little there and suddenly one day you notice how much better you are caring for yourself and how fabulous you feel. Wuuu Huuu!

You’ve been on “5 different vitamin supplements – I’ve been on them for 3 weeks now and see no help.” It has taken you years to get this run down. It can easily take more than 3 weeks to notice a difference. And, supplements alone won’t do it.

Besides the supplements — what lifestyle changes have you made? Are you getting more rest and sleeping into 9 a.m. whenever possible? Have you upped your water intake? Are you eating an awesome breakfast before 10:00 a.m. and are you in bed resting by 10 p.m. so that you are zzzzzzing when your adrenals need to be re-charging? Are you taking an easier, more peaceful approach to life? (Dr. Wilson talks about the personality types that “catch” adrenal fatigue.) Is your recovery your #1 priority? Right now, it needs to be.

I wonder if you have determined the emotional trigger for your fatigue? Do you have help coming to peace with your past? (Adrenal Fatigue is often launched by a major event like the death of a loved one, moving to a new state, having a baby, divorce, broken-heart, bankruptcy …)

Finally, there is A LOT to this. I made it as simple and step-by-step as possible when I pulled together the Fatigue Be Gone Jumpstart e-Guide.

Fatigue is a dis-ease of the mind, body and spirit. All have to be nourished back to health. This may sound overwhelming, especially to someone who is tired, but trust me – I’ve been and done that. Because I know just how you feel I did my best to make it as easy as possible for you to feel better – FAST. Click here for more …

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Portable Reiki.

Last, but not least … The Fatigue Be Gone! Jumpstart Guide is an easy-does-it step-by-step refresher for your mind, body and spirit. The time and expense of my trial and error is your shortcut to feeling better FAST.

Grab your copy here and tell a girlfriend.

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A New Year’s Resolution to re-Energize ALL of you!

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This is just in from my friend Jennifer Clare and I had to share it with you! (Psst. If you have something cool to get us started in this new year add it here!)

“Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline…too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with…something about yourself,
your career, your spouse.”– Dale Dauten

How refreshing! This time of year the papers and magazines are full of suggestions to detox, purge and diet – essentially beating yourself up for having been indulgent over the holidays.

Rather than buying into that punishing idea, try really falling in love. With you.

Go through your body and thank each and every part of it for being there for you, 24/7. Your body never stops working for you, carrying you around, allowing you to experience exquisite pleasures.

Your body is home.

So instead of being mean to it, decide to be kind and gentle. Feed it nourishing whole foods. Move and stretch it. Breathe lots of oxygen deep into it. And hydrate it! (I read yesterday that our goal with drinking water is to replace all the stale water in the body with clean fresh stuff – every day. Are you living in a spring-fed lake or a polluted, algae-filled pond?)

(And if you’re interested in learning to talk to your body and finding out exactly what IT wants – there are a handful of places left for the course on January 19th. Your Body KNOWS What It Needs!

Read more here.) You are marvellous and perfect. Treat yourself that way! thought matters! and so do you! Jennifer Clare http://www.thoughtmatters.com.au

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