Holy Crap!

Once again, I am going to be talking s**t, so if you can't handle my bluntness, please don't read on :)

As I have been thinking about my healing journey, and reading books like Crazy Sexy Diet by Kris Carr, I realized that the first step I want to take is to clean out my pipes. I can't rally start healing if I plugged up. It is funny in her book because she talks about colon hydrotherapy and suggests that you ask trusted friends, family, chiropractors, etc about who to go to. Now I don't know about you, but I am still a little shy about actually verbalizing my poop issues with others. It isn't so easy to say to a friend or colleague "Do you know anyone that could help clean out my poop?" It's not exactly how to start a conversation. Thankfully, I have a trusted friend, whom I did discuss the topic with, she is also the one who recommended the book. Our conversation was more around should we try it (not together) as neither of had no idea what to expect or any clue of where to go.

In Kris Carr's book, there is a resource section at the end, and low and behold, there is a section on colon therapists. So I checked out the website for the International Association of Colon Therapists (www.i-act.org), and chose one to go see and experience the movement of my poo.

Now, I have had colonoscopies and flex sigs, so I have had to clean my colon out for these procedures. This is done with a medication for colonoscopies and enemas for the flex sig. Both of these methods really cleaned me out. Proof was in the pictures from my GI doc!  Anyways, I was telling myself that is is what it is going to be like. Well, I was right and wrong.

Here is the cliff note version of my experience. I had to wear a gown like when you go to the doctor and lie down on a table. It was quiet and peaceful, kind of like when you go to a massage therapist. The room was dimly lit and there was soft, spa like music playing. So far so good! Then the speculum comes out and is attached to a hose. Lordly - that is going where? Here is where I started my breathing to calm the nerves. Once I was all hooked up and the water started to go in, I was thinking this was super easy. The therapist and I were just chatting and then  my belly started to feel full and then the urge. She has warned me about having to breathe and ride the wave, so that is what I tried to do. Breath into my belly and relax. Guess what, there was no breathing into my belly. This was a wave that was a little more intense than expected. It was like trying to jam one more pair of shoes into an already full suitcase! Then the wave was turning into someone jumping on that suitcase to make sure that sweet pair of shoes was coming along on vacation! It didn't hurt, but boy was there pressure and the URGE! The really excellent part - not so much- was that nothing was coming out when she turned off the water flow. Now for those of you who have never experienced colon hydrotherapy, the tube going in your butt brings water into your colon at a rate set by the therapists. The idea is that when the flow is shut off, everything in your colon comes out. My gut decided that it wasn't going to let anything out not even with gentle tummy massage.  Here is where my fear of exploding all over the table instead of it going discretely out of you in the tube and into the waste system came to life.

I will spare you the details and I am willing to share only so much, but I can tell you that I was literally full of shit! I learned about using a squatting footstool and how that can assist in the release. I was amazed at the amount of everything. I had gallons of water inside along with tons of toxins that needed to get out!

We did attempt a shorter round after my release and once again found that discretely removing the waste from my body is not what my body will do.

After an hour with my therapist and praying that the plunger would not be needed, my session was over. Now I just had to drive 40 minutes home. :)  I made it no problem.

Colon hydrotherapy was intense but so relieving. I actually lost 2 pounds and feel thinner than I have in a while. My belly doesn't feel bloated. I feel clean. I am thinking I will try it again to continue cleaning out the toxins and help my colon heal. The next thing to ponder is just doing an enema at home or do I pay a therapist to fill my colon and then not have it come discretely out again?

Either way, I am glad I did it. I would recommend everyone go out and get their pipes cleaned. I am glad I did. I feel a lot freer than I have a long time. Amazing....