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When Healing seems to take too Long

Writer's picture: Anna Murphy, FCPAnna Murphy, FCP

The best thoughts happen while showering….or at least that’s what I’m told. Below are some recent thoughts I had about the road to healing, especially when it takes longer than we desire, of course while showering.


Maybe I’ll start with personal experience here. When I notice something is off, or there is something I want, I desire for it to take place right that second. Not 30 minutes from now, not a year from now, but right this instant. I’m a whole week into wedding planning (and I must admit…we are crushing it)…but even that I’m tempted to just want all of the decorations figured out, the date set, wedding party figured out right. This. Second.


But, I’m sure those of you who have planned weddings know. That’s not how this works. And sometimes in life that’s not how most things work. I don’t want to undermine the instantaneous nature of God’s healing, however. There are certainly times, naturally and supernaturally, where God does heal instantaneously or very near to it. What about the times, though, where you have x problems and the route to get to a solution seems, well, way too long?


The reality is there are underlying problems that might cause our big issues to happen. And though this is a tough realization to come to terms with, because x may take more time now, it is a reality that we need to grapple with, let ourselves feel whatever emotions may accompany it, surrender it to the Lord, and find solutions to our new set of issues in front of us.


For example. A woman with PCOS might come to Creighton and say “I have so many days of fertility, we just want to have intercourse 1-2 times a week,” while avoiding a pregnancy sounds fairly doable during a good amount of the cycle. The problem, however, might be that the woman’s hormones might be so drastically off that it produces more cervical mucus than it should, causing the woman to appear to have more days of fertility than she actually has. The solution might be to get hormone labs drawn by a Napro doctor and under their supervision have bio identical hormone supplementation. Or, the route could be a number of vitamin or other protocols that the practitioner may be able to advise. The route, however, might be longer PCOS requires further management. If this happens, it doesn’t mean that the route isn’t worth taking. In fact, the reality is the woman’s body will probably be made more whole and functional than if the long route never occurred. The route is what lead to healing, even if it seemed like the long route there. And the solution might help to reduce the overall impact of PCOS on her body (insulin resistance, increased testosterone levels, etc). Though the Long route doesn’t sound very desirable, it is sometimes the necessary and most healing route to take.



Your Creighton Practitioner is here to help out along the way.

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