Something Great Wakes up from something Bad

Back in the summer 2013, Mia started painting by “coincidence”.

She searched  for something that would make her feel less pain or otherwise help replace the pain that she had in her body, if only for a little while.

For a couple of years Mia have lived with Lyme disease (Borreliose) and have been going through treatments. She didn’t want to eat more painkillers or use any morphine plaster. Instead, she began painting!

Mia called her project: ‘The Pain-Paint Therapy’

Never before had she held an artist’s paint brush in her hand, Mia bought home what she thought was she needed to create ‘something’.  And she just started!

It was an amazing feeling for her and the painting has helped Mia a long way on her path.  Every summer, she carry out her easel to a sunny space and starts to paint.
It also brought her children and her closer together, to create a hobby room outside for all of their creativity. 

Mia's daughter Olivia (9 years old) and Mia paint together.  Olivia is truly Mia's best adviser and coach. Max (7 years old) is creating colorful snail houses. They are a colorful family

That’s Amore!

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PAIN PAINT PROJECT

 Having lyme disease you have to be creative the whole time or you fall down the black whole. Chronicle Lyme is always there, and you have to be strong to keep it under control. My painting has (is) my savior. Never would I have believed ...me painting.

I love it. Its so much fun and relaxing. I don't have to eat painkillers. So I named my work
"Pain Pain Therapy"

Dog, Senior, no value in many eyes (I adore them)

 This I actually made last year. It was my first painting. I dusted it off today.

Butterfly, in so much chaos around but still so beautiful.

Working on this one, and its interesting why this one is starting to become my favorite.

Not to have a voice. Stand up and find your voice, your key.

I am happy! That's Amore!

LYME THE NEW AIDS

One of the doctors at a Lyme clinic told me Lyme could also be transmitted via breastfeeding. Today this article came in my hands. I heard vaguely about it one year ago.

Interesting to read and educate. The climate is changing and warmer makes these little creatures happy.

READ THE ARTICLE

STAND UP FOR MYSELF

Its interesting how little we know about ourself. When I look back at my years I have done so many things I wouldn't had expected from myself.

Thanks to my Lyme Disease I started to paint. I absolutely do not call myself artist. I call myself Creative.

I find it so much fun, inspiring and scary. Scary since I never know what will come up on the canvas.

This is so far from being done, and some of the things I will re-paint. Before the helmet was painted I had painted feathers. From Indian Chief to Soldier Peace. Yep, you never know your own path.

Stay Brave.

That's Amore!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Finally 2013 is over!
I didn't like that year very much. I felt like 2013 was a hard year with many different tests and lessons. Interesting enough I saw the same kind of postings on FB from many different people. Not a good year!

Manny people that I am close to, suffers from depression. It has been hurtful to watch (and is), and also to notice that they think its something shameful. To one person I sent the words;
" Depressed people are those that has tried to be strong to long"

 It is nothing shameful.

2014 feels hopeful. I feel Harmony and many new exiting projects. Cannot wait, to try out new things, and finish old projects, and read many books.

Lyme Disease; I feel so much better. I finally noticed how important the diet is. Raw food in the morning, lunch and 80% in the evening. I have read about many people that stopped eating anything with white flour and sugar. I think we are so heading towards the right direction, stronger this year.

I am in love with 2014

SICK~HUMOR

When I am sick my humor follows that pattern too. You cannot help being...extra silly...or sarcastic.

My doctor told me several times during my visit the important to laugh....so instead of "one apple a day keeps the doctor away...I try; one laugh a day keeps the pain away"

That's Amore!

THE COLOR OF YOUR BRUSH

Good morning! ..... Please forgive my big gap of silence on this, my blog, for quiet some time.   I am now back after a long summer with many memories of different kinds of emotions.  The coming autumn will be one full of Spiritual work.  When a challenge turns up in your life, its time for Spiritual work. Big challenges require big work --- imagine "Extreme Makeover - Spiritual Edition".  All the questions are turning up. I am going to write about them since it reflects so many different subjects in life.

With my Chronic Lyme Disease and my own stubbornness, it many times makes a kind of conflict within me. Stubbornness can be something good, if used in the right direction.  I used it wrong!  I stubbornly told my body I couldn't take it easy and relax when that is what my body was desperately asking me for.  My energetic mind wanted to do so many things, and constantly new things came up inside of me that I wanted to start. And of course in a big house with two younger children and twelve dogs, who was I kidding?

Unfortunately, I have now suffered a very bad relapse with the Lyme, and am back on square three out of ten.  I was so happy in August when I was on square seven it seemed, for quiet some time.  But I will be back, since I am a stubborn Swedish Viking, who has to learn to use my stubbornness in another way.  I must stubbornly eat better, relax more and deal with emotional conflicts more calmly until I get my new referrals to the Infectious Disease Klinikum at Tubingen University.

Meanwhile I have re-discovered painting.  I love it!  Standing outside in a wonderful atmosphere and just letting the brush take over the colors and the canvas.  When I do that, for a little while, my mind is floating away, and I cannot feel my pain anymore....

That's Amore!

MY MIND AND MY LEGS BACK

 The best thing about getting better is all the books I can now read. Ok, it is not with the same speed, but at least I can READ! It was a nightmare not being able to read during the worst period of my sickness. The enormous pain, and the feeling like I was starting to lose my mind was scary and terrifying.

The other best thing right now, is that I can walk. I can WALK! Without too much pain and together with my children. The worst part earlier was to see the family also suffering. When someone in the family gets ill, its not only about them, the whole family will suffer too. To watch my kids' sad eyes when I didn't have the strength to do anything, I only sat on a chair and cried.

When I finally started to get help at the Augsburg Clinic (World Famous Borrelia Clinic) in November 2012, starting with the heavy antibiotic treatment IV and now in August 2013 I am still on antibiotics but Herbal and with supplements. Everything has helped me enormously. Of course, also working with my mind and spirit, the road has (is) been long.

I told my children in November 2012 that the up-coming summer, I would be able to do a lot more together with them. I had to fight because of them!  And this summer we have done a lot! Last weekend we hiked together with friends and some of our dogs not far away from were we live.

Look at the view! Its the amazing Black Forest. And, I am the luckiest woman to have gotten my life and family back, and in this Paradise Athmosphere.

That's Amore!

WAKING UP FROM COMA LAND INTO COLOR LAND

 

 I feel like I am re-born again!

Like the Princess that slept for 100 years and woke up by a kiss-- but, no one kissed me. Perhaps, one of our 13 dogs?

I feel like I have been in a dark coma and only recently awoken. I don't recognize myself but I like the new me.

Colors, colors and colors. I want so much color around me and on me. This colorful dog always makes me happy to look at.  I love him and I make sure he got a good spot in my house.

The Lyme disease really knocked me to the bottom, but I fought my way back up. I felt I was close to dying and it was a vulnerable, scary time filled with demons and fog dancing around my bed. Yesterday I said to a friend that I wouldn't wish this disease on anyone, and I wish I could help everyone who has it.  My Lyme Friends I am always thinking of you.

 My therapy is to paint, and I have taken it up, together with my daughter. First I didn't want to show them since I am not an artist, but then I noticed how much fun it is to guess what comes out from the brush. And friends enjoyed it too.

"That's Amore!" has long been my catch phrase, really solidifying when I wrote for Magazine NARA for three years.  Still on Facebook, I end my posts with it. After many years, and stories from Italy...That's Amore!

I painted the Earth with colored sperm around it, fertilizing our World with love. Olivia (8 years-old) came up and said she loved my painting.  I asked her if she knew what it was?

"Mom! I love the tadpoles!"

Olivia painted this wonderful colorful painting with horses and jewels.  It made me think of horse selling a long time ago from Europe to Turkey.

It is so much fun to look at the paintings and try to translate them.   We each find our own meaning among the colors and shapes. What is your Color?

That's Amore!