The Long Game
The things you do consistently make the most difference and it's gentler on the body to keep working at slowly improving things daily than to shoot for big, dramatic interventions. People tend to LIKE running to the doctor and getting some pills because if it helps, there is often a quick, obvious change in the short run. They get to feel like they have done something, for certain.
You have to track changes somehow when you play the long game. Sometimes, it's not obvious. You have to remind yourself that you used to have more issues, etc.
And sometimes you pass some threshold and your body surprises you with evidence of deep healing that you did not know was possible.
' I have a sore spot on my tongue. It's sore from rubbing up against the sharp edge of a broken tooth.
Oh, not exciting to you, I take it?
It's a tooth that crumbled and fell out of my mouth several years ago. It's still sharp because the remainder of it has been below the gums.
Until recently.
This is evidence of my gums shrinking. It is evidence of chronic inflammation resolving.
It's taken a long time to get here.
You have to track changes somehow when you play the long game. Sometimes, it's not obvious. You have to remind yourself that you used to have more issues, etc.
And sometimes you pass some threshold and your body surprises you with evidence of deep healing that you did not know was possible.
' I have a sore spot on my tongue. It's sore from rubbing up against the sharp edge of a broken tooth.
Oh, not exciting to you, I take it?
It's a tooth that crumbled and fell out of my mouth several years ago. It's still sharp because the remainder of it has been below the gums.
Until recently.
This is evidence of my gums shrinking. It is evidence of chronic inflammation resolving.
It's taken a long time to get here.
