I wake up this morning feeling like two separate entities

A smiling happy brain and a battered, bruised body with immune system in over drive. 

An over consumption of histamines followed by sleeping in a very dry log cabin made for a rough night sleep with cold symptoms and difficulty breathing. 

Our holiday house carries with it holiday behaviours like too many pastries and beer. 

Nothing excessive but I've had a fragile immune system all my life, part hereditary and part product of a poor diet growing up I think. 

A clue as to why I spend so much time helping people to improve theirs I guess. 

The "my body doesn't work like yours so I can't do you what you do" is a difficult story to tell yourself or it can be. 

Oh, I also spent the evening in hospital. 

Having spent 2 days chopping down trees one of my many cuts and blisters appeared to have come with a little blood poisoning. 

The suggestion from the jaded mid-Copenhagen Doctor that I was perhaps a drug addict at least gave me a chance to practise my queens english. 

Oh, and I might have a belly button hernia. 

Doctor "try and stay calm so that you don't die in the night then go to your GP in the morning." 

Lol. So I have antibiotics although I'm resisting them for now because the blood test said there was no infection. 

I at least got to feel like wolverine for a moment. 

All in all quite the 48 hours. 

"Fall down 7 times stand up 8" Naoki Higashida

"It's not how hard you can hit, it's how hard you can get hit and keep on coming." Rocky 

What's happening is just what's happening, how you react to it is up to you. 

It's always tempting as a health coach to pretend everything is always perfect but that's just not the human experience. 

At the same time, 

If I've fallen down a hole, I don't want someone who stands above the hole yelling down advice they read in a text book. 

I want someone who can jumped down with me and say 

"Don't panic, I know the way out." 

If you're struggling with health right now, accepting it is the first step to changing it. 

Ed Ley

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