Encouraging Motherhood through Awareness

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Motherhood & Encouragement

When I think of motherhood, I am always reminded of how much mothers need encouragement. Especially when our children are sick.

As a mother of 4 young children, some of my greatest encouragement has come when my children aren’t feeling well. It’s always comforting to have a friend or family member share advice for natural healing or just to simply tell me I’m doing a good job. And reassure me that my children are going to be healed and healthy soon.

My 4 children are extremely healthy and I am very thankful for that. After a day or two of nurturing a cold or a fever, my children are right back to their healthy selves and all is well in the world again. But during those sick days, I feel exhausted. I’m thankful for a support system that offers encouragement.

Did you know there are mothers who care for their chronically sick and injured children EVERYDAY? These mothers don’t know if the day will ever come when their children will be healthy or whole again. I observe these mothers on a daily basis. I watch these mothers as they tirelessly work day in and day out caring for and trying to heal their sick children. The only difference is; they receive the least amount of encouragement. Do you know who they are?

These are the mothers of vaccine-injured children. I have a heart for these mommas. These mothers didn’t do anything wrong. They did what they were told to do. They followed the rules. And as they suffer the consequences, filled with heartache and guilt, they are left feeling discouraged and misunderstood. Most people don’t even know these mothers exist or most people have denied their existence. These mothers are often not believed and typically met with skepticism and ridicule. They are called crazy, emotional, anecdotal and desperate.

Motherhood & Vaccine-injury

As a mother, I can’t imagine what it would feel like to watch my child regress right before my very eyes, and know exactly why they are regressing. I can’t imagine what it would feel like to know exactly why my child is neurologically ill, suffering from autoimmune disorders, and chronically sick all the time…while the rest of the world tells me that what I know to be true and what I witnessed with my very own eyes doesn’t really exist.

We are given a vaccine schedule and told that starting at birth, our babies are to receive the following shots at the appointed times. Birth, 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, 12 months, etc…

And then one day the mom who thought she was doing everything “right,” suddenly learns the product she was told would protect her child, has injured her child. And her world goes crashing down.

This is literally the reality for hundreds of thousands of families with vaccine-injured children. I know these families. I advocate for them on a daily basis.

Motherhood & The Road to Recovery

What would it look like if we not only believed these mothers, but encouraged them along the way through recovery? Did you know these children can be recovered and heal?

I often think of my friend Ginger. She is one of my closest friends. She is kind, smart, & educated. This momma possesses more wisdom and knowledge than anyone I know. Yet she is still treated with disbelief and skepticism.

Ginger watched her son Landry suffer a seizure immediately following his 9 month “well-baby” shots. He started strange behaviors after that, like sitting and staring into space while rotating his wrists and ankles for hours on end. He also stopped making eye contact & responding to his name. He was finally diagnosed with autism at 33 months.

After years of biomedical treatments and an entire college savings spent, her son was recovered and officially lost his autism diagnosis at age 6.  Ginger has clocked in about 6 years of diligent research leading to her son’s recovery. The recovery story is simply amazing! This was a boy who wasn’t potty trained and had no language until age 4.  It took years of work!

Often times when Ginger shares her story about the biomedical treatments (chelation, HBoT, Dietary Changes, Whole Food Supplements, etc), she is told that is quackery. Why don’t we want to believe the lab reports showing his metal levels were off charts? Why don’t we want to believe that with each chelation that pulled these metals out, a little piece of her son returned? And most importantly, why wasn’t she encouraged along the way?

My passion to share vaccine awareness, and my love for autism mommas (like my friend Ginger) intersected recently with a group of moms (and a dad) who are changing history for this generation of children. They are doing it from the grassroots up. One article at a time. One interview at a time. One conversation at a time. One Facebook post at a time. Meet “The Thinking Moms Revolution”. Never in my life have I been so in awe of a group of moms who are taking motherhood to a whole new level. These are world changers.

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What I love about this group of mothers is their passion. They remind me of this verse in Hosea.

“Like a bear whose cubs have been taken away,
I will tear out your heart.
I will devour you like a hungry lioness
And mangle you like a wild animal”
-Hosea 13:8

These mothers will not stop fighting until every last one of their children are healed.

One of the unique aspects of The Thinking Moms Revolution is that these mothers are in all stages of injury, diagnosis, recovery, & healing. Their stories are heart wrenching and awe inspiring. Their stories are filled with truth and pain and hope and empowerment. These mothers are armed with truth. They are more researched and educated than any other group I’ve ever known. They are strong and fierce, but also human. They are mothers. Real mothers of real children.

And what they need most: encouragement, is what I’m afraid they are receiving least.

THE HEARTS OF THE MOTHERS

”I didn’t ask for this fight. None of us did. We followed the rules. Did what we were told. Didn’t question authority. Trusted the “experts.” Showed up on time. Held them down. Over and over and over. Gave the antibiotics. Ignored our guts. Loaded them up on Tylenol. And chalked it all up to coincidence. We didn’t do anything to deserve this. Most certainly our children didn’t either. But I’ll be damned…I’ll be DAMNED…if I allow my daughter’s life and those of her generation like her…to be discounted, chalked up to the “greater good,” and poisoned at the hand of those she trusted without someone, someday being held responsible for what they did. I can forgive. I cannot, and will not, ever forget. And I cannot and will not ever give up.”  -Julie Obradovic, Contributing Editor to Age of Autism.

“I’m just a mom. A mom with a really sick kid. I spend my days reading books and calling doctors. It’s what I do everyday, and have done everyday, for over 3 years now. All I can say for SURE…as a matter of FACT…is this: If your pediatrician DOES NOT ask you if you have a history of allergies, asthma, autism, ADHD or auto-immune disease in your family BEFORE he vaccinates your baby, he is NOT IN POSSESSION OF THE KNOWLEDGE required to vaccinate your child responsibly. PERIOD. PERIOD! FIND A NEW DOCTOR WHO UNDERSTANDS THE SCIENCE. If he does ask and you answer YES to any of the above and he tells you “you should be fine” he is guilty of MEDICAL MISCONDUCT and should be reported.”  -Lisa Joyce Goes, Contributing Editor to Age of Autism & Co-Founder of The Thinking Moms Revolution

These mommas are drained and exhausted and worn out. They are fighting like hell to get their child back. Recovery isn’t easy. But it is possible. These mommas want their children back. The way God created them, before they were injured.

Motherhood is faced with many choices.

Will you choose to educate yourself on the reality of vaccine injury? Will you choose to step over into the world of vaccine awareness and encourage a fellow mother today?

They need us. I know this much for sure.

“If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known” -Matthew Arnold, 19th Century British Poet and Philosopher