#projectvitality -Adrenal Fatigue, pneumonia and climbing Mount Everest Base Camp.
6 years ago today.
There is no greater feeling than healing your body and doing incredible things.
One of my proudest moments was completing Everest Base Camp. This was something that was extremely challenging and made even more difficult as I did zero training for it.
A humanitarian opportunity popped up in Nepal with doTERRA and So I thought what else can I do over in Nepal after the work had been done.
People suggested base camp at the time the only exercise I was doing was reformer Pilates 3 times a week.
So off I trek there were so many moments that I wanted to give up, that I just thought my body can't do this but I didn't listen to my mind and I kept going, yes I rested when I needed but I had to surrender trust over to my body.
A body that had been through so much over the previous 5 years, a body that ultimately steered me off a very destructive path into learning to reconnect with myself and love myself.
When I was so sick I thought I was going to die I had to completely give in to the body and realize I had no control.
My body was either going to start to repair itself or it wasn't. I became super sensitive to the environments my body needed to be in, the food I ate, the rest I got, how much nature I needed and so much more.
I had to make drastic lifestyle changes and be super disciplined. Each day though I got healthier and healthier and studied and mastered many different pathways.
I am so bloody proud of myself and want to let those suffering from adrenal fatigue which is a very misunderstood illness that there is hope.
Its misunderstood as it can be perceived as being lazy, reality is sometimes you just need a nap and this cycle may last a couple of months or years and then you have done a deeper level of healing and you expand again.
Our culture doesn't understand as its purposely designed not to allow for pause and retrospection.
Without this space as humans we continue on the hampster wheel always moving forward but never questioning if we are going in the right direction.
It condemns those that create that space.
However this is where mastery occurs and has been my greatest lesson from my illness and every single time without fail now if I make a rushed decision it turns out to be disastrous and trust me I still do it all the time.
When I sit in nature, contemplate, sleep if I need to, question then I really come to complete clarity.
This is why I am so grateful that I got sick it taught me this as to be honest my body just said nup you and staying in bed or on the couch till you sort this out so i really had no choice.
So what some would see as a burden which in the moment I did, becomes the greatest teacher in your life.
If your in it now I feel for you its brutal and really sucks, I have created a program called project Vitality mastermind if your interested just reach out, ultimately its my 10 plus years of experience to help you move through it so you don't have to go to the depths of darkness I did.
Either way if you to come on the journey with me or do it on your own the most important step is to learn to tune into the subtle cues of your body.
Its always guiding you home if you are willing to listen.
Creating Radically Healthy Humans
Nicholas Fairbairn AKA That Health Dude
CHEK Practitioner - Rehab Specialist