Hello everyone who is suffering from bladder symptoms, I am here to share a little of my journey and give hope to whoever needs it.
My experience began, in theory, from a UTI that wasn't treated correctly. The infection continued, but even after the signs of infection were no longer showing up in my body.
I continued to suffer from the symptoms of a UTI, and it turned into chronic pain in the area.
I am a proactive woman, so I set out on an intensive search and I left no stone unturned to understand what was happening in my body and find a cure. I even traveled to doctors and underwent tests abroad, but nothing helped. Disappointed with Western medicine, I went to alternative therapies, but they didn't help at all either. I kept looking for solutions, and out of despair, I agreed to examine the option of "mind-body" treatment, a concept I almost ridiculed at the time. I was skeptical of the possibility that an emotional state could be expressed via a physical one, but as mentioned, I was so desperate that I agreed to examine this option as well. I went through a number of therapists and pain coaches. Sometimes I felt relief and then the symptoms returned, and with them, the frustration and bitterness grew.
I learned to know and identify the automatic reactions that have been managing me for decades without my knowing it; I learned about defense mechanisms; I learned about the different parts that make up who I am, and I received a set of tools to cope with the pain.
All these gave me the opportunity to function differently, to develop awareness and ability to choose from a place of freedom and possibility rather than blindness. I took the power back home, to myself. Power I had lost at some point in my childhood.
The space established with Lihi was more than a treatment for pain, it was a representation of the way I need to treat myself. It provided "lab conditions" and a warm embrace for the new me who was emerging from this pain, and in the end, it not only saved my life, it created a new and better version of my life.
The treatment period was the most significant period of my life, and I will always be grateful for the pain and for the privilege of being Lihi's client.
