I am what I eat, so what I put into my body dictates how I feel, both physically and emotionally. When my body is out of balance or when I am suffering emotionally, I know that I need to increase the amount of nutrients that I consume so that my body can once again come in balance.

Down through the years I have let myself, become burned out, by pushing myself too much and not looking after myself how I should. As a mother it is easy to take the back sit, as you prioritize your children and do your best to ensure they receive all that they need. But of course how can we really look after others, if we do not first look after ourselves and also what sort of message would I be sending to my children if I didn't practice what I preach. Indeed it is best to teach by example.

I have this last year, been going through a very difficult time in my life, I have experienced so many life changes and found myself experiencing a lot of stress and heart ache. To be honest I was expecting myself to hit a brick wall at one point, to buckle under the pressure of becoming a single mum, whilst witnessing my sister losing her life to Cancer. I have suffered, but I never did hit that brick wall. Why?

I done a lot of research for my sister, looking up all the ways in which you can heal Cancer naturally and I found so much amazing information about mushrooms. I ended up buying her some in powder form, but in the end she did not use them.
I did however.

When I got a call to say my sister was being admitted to a hospice, I along with my 3 children raced over to be with her. When I arrived I began to take the mushrooms that I had purchased for her. The mushrooms I took where Reishi, Maitake and Shitake. I had bought them individually for her, but I had also bought her a mushroom gold blend which had all 3 of them together.

Before I researched their healing properties with regards to Cancer, I knew already that they were adaptogens. That they have the ability to help your body adapt to stress. By adapting to the stress you are experiencing and also to your body. which means that these 3 mushrooms worked with my body so that my bodies needs where met and as a result helped to bring my whole being more into balance.

I have been a long time lover of mushrooms and have been fascinated by their ability to heal both the earth and us.

I took 2 capsules a day for two months which really helped my body and my mind to deal with the huge amount of emotional stress that I was experiencing in my life. I was not sleeping very much and my diet was quite poor during that time. Which meant that I was putting my body under a lot of strain, at a time where I really needed my whole self to be strong. When these mushrooms are in powered form they are more potent, I really felt like I needed that potency and I was right.

Even with all of that going on and my body not getting enough sleep and being feed a poor diet, these mushrooms in their potent form sustained me and supported me. I never got sick, not once in all that time and I know that is because of them.

When I returned to my home, I was in a much better place to look after myself. I began juicing again and also taking chlorella on a daily basis. I also had two weeks supply, left of the mushrooms. My diet is back to the way to the way it was, where I eat no processed foods only wholefoods.

Food is such wonderful medicine, such wonderful preventative medicine. We need to focus on strengthening our bodies so that they can cope with any dis ease that we may become exposed to. It is up to each one of us to decide whether we are eating to satisfy our hunger or to actually support the needs of our bodies.

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