If any medical professional tells you that you have a health challenge that can’t be healed, or even survived, tell them about Lindsey Freeman. Her healing story perfectly epitomizes the healthcare systems inability to “predict” healing. Diagnosed with a rare, incurable condition, she was told repeatedly by top specialists that she was going to die. Instead, she spent five years in and out of hospitals, enduring chemotherapy, surgeries, and blood transfusions. At her worst, she was frail, jaundiced, and battling a body that refused to cooperate. Until one day, against all medical predictions, she got better. Neither she nor her doctors know how or why it happened.

And while unique, Lindsey isn’t totally alone in her experience. There is a growing number of stories of people who have been written off by the medical establishment that do heal. Their situations may be seen as odds defying and unexplainable. Without exception, they almost all get put in the category of “miracle,” with no other answers sought.

But there is something we do know, a  common thread with all these stories. It’s resilience. In almost every one of these cases they had a rock solid belief that their story wasn’t over.

Fear 

Fear doesn’t come to stop you; it comes to let you know what’s really important, what’s worth fighting for. It comes not so much to test you, but to prove you—your faith, your strength, and your determination.

The Folk of Yore: Sacred Mission

It’s important to remember that fear and resilience can and usually do coexist. In Lindsey’s situation, w\hat if she had given in? What if she had let her fear consume her? If she had surrendered to the expectations placed upon her?

Instead, she kept fighting. Lindsey sought out specialists. She traveled across the country looking for answers. Relentless, she tried chemotherapy, saw a naturopath, experimented with untested treatments. And when nothing else made sense, she held on anyway.

The Next Corner

Stories like Lindsey’s remind us of the fundamental truth that nobody knows what’s around the next corner. But we do know that people defy terminal diagnoses. Paralysis patients walk again. Diseases go into spontaneous remission. There is so much we don’t understand about the body’s amazing ability to heal. So, why should we accept limits that may not even be real?

Let’s be clear, Lindsey’s experience had to be unimaginable hell. It had to require more of her on a daily basis than the rest of us can comprehend. But resilience isn’t about pretending everything is fine. It’s about believing in possibilities even when there doesn’t appear to really be any reason to, and maybe no one else does.

Consider this. What if, in these extreme situations, the difference between illness and healing is holding on just a little longer?

The Times We are Living In

For many people today, there is a hopefulness about the future of health. Our health and our families’ health.

The fact is, more and more people are realizing that no doctor, no diagnosis, no authority in the world has the final say about our health and our life. That is all ours.

If Lindsey Freeman had listened to the experts, she wouldn’t be here today, taking her daughter to school, living a life she once was told wouldn’t be hers to live.

If you are dealing with a health situation, be persistent and believe in your body’s ability to heal. Your chiropractor does. If you don’t have one, there are 100 Year LifestyleⓇ providers near you who would welcome the opportunity to be your partner in resilience. Together, you can write your healing story.