A young lady with severe Psoriasis going through all those bad experiences of humiliation and shame and then healing (managing) her psoriasis up to that level that she is showing her face to millions of people everyday single day on television.
For me, this scenario was almost close to impossible before I read about these two ladies.
Earlier Zain Verjee and now Alaka Dhupkar.
In one of our previous post, we had a glimpse of the amazing story of holistic healing of Psoriasis of Zain Verjee and today, I am back again with a very similar story of Alaka Dhupkar.
Alaka is a 32 years old media professional in India.She is associated with electronic media industry, working as a broadcast news anchor.She got psoriasis at the age of 13 and since then she have tried almost everything from Allopathy,Homeopathy,Ayurveda to Naturopathy.
She enjoys trekking and other adventure sports and didn’t allowed psoriasis arthritis (in her left leg) to stop her from enjoying trekking.
Let us try to understand what transformed a young girl with severe psoriasis to a super confident and passionate young lady journalist who is enjoying meeting new people every day and showing her smiling face to millions on television:
- For Alaka, Psoriasis is a psycho-somatic disease.I never heard this term before.Hence, I needed to Google it.It means – a physical disease caused or triggered by a mental factor such as stress.In simple words, diseases developing due to interaction of mind and body.
- She has given importance to diet, lifestyle, medication and meditation to manage Psoriasis.
- She has highly recommended joining a Psoriasis support group/community either physically (in your home town) or any online psoriasis community.There are so many psoriasis related groups on various social networking web portals like Facebook,Yahoo support groups and Twitter.Connecting with people having similar skin condition and experiencing similar life struggle will definitely help you accept your skin and your life as a whole in a positive manner.Joining a psoriasis support group/community will help you heal your emotional wounds to look beyond psoriasis and live a much fuller life.
- Factors like- stress,anxiety,anger,impatience,irregular diet,faulty life style and over dosage of steroid based medicines– trigger psoriasis.
- Reading her story,I can see that she have experienced all sorts of negative emotions and discriminatory behaviors which almost everyone of us have experienced at some stage of our lives.
- She has experienced everything- bleeding caused by skin cracking and arthritis in her left leg.During her struggle with severe psoriasis, she used to avoid facing a mirror just like most of us.
- She mentioned taking a small treatment for digestion problem (it means a healthy digestive system does play a role in psoriasis healing :-))
Highlights of her healing treatment:
- Adequate oiling of scalp
- Drinking hot/warm water
- Including raw fruits and vegetables in diet
- Daily yoga and pranayam to absorb enough fresh oxygen
- Daily meditation for 20 minutes
- Cutting down on junk food
- Join a Psoriasis support group and meet other people with similar skin condition
- ACCEPTING her psoriasis and rather than investing all her energy and time in CURING it, she started looking at other MORE important things of her life and started doing the things that she always wanted to.
I can’t stop myself anymore from sharing few of Alaka’s quotes expressing how deeply she has accepted her skin (and her psoriasis):
Many people have far more frustrating diseases than psoriasis.Diabetes and various heart,liver and kidney troubles.The only difference is- they are not visible and psoriasis is visible.We should understand this and try not to STRETCH psoriasis too much.
There was a time when I used to think only about my skin and I used to be sad every time.Then gradually I realized that this problem is just a small part of my life and I can’t allow this problem to stop me from exploring the whole world around me.Hence, I started enjoying my life and my work enthusiastically.
In my teenage,I used to love my hairs so much.Then, as required in various treatments,I needed to cut my lovely hairs and I have never been able to have long hairs again.But, now I carry this fashionable hair cut (short hairs) and I am loving it.I have no regrets.
I don’t let any comment on my skin to go unnoticed.If I see anyone looking at my psoriasis patches curiously,I smile and say that I have a skin disease,known as Psoriasis.
At last but not the least,if you have any real life story of healing Psoriasis, please share with us.Together,we are stronger!!
PALEO lifestyle will heal psoriasis…