088 Mattress Island Series: In Bed Most Of The Day

Unless you lived it, this is a hard one for many to understand, and
it’s called Mattress Island. Mattress Island is a place that
becomes someone’s personal, private sanctuary when they are forced
to stay in bed more hours than the normal, nighttime sleep hours
that people who are healthy enough experience. The chronically ill
spend the majority of time in bed not because they truly want to,
but because they don’t feel well enough to function optimally, or
at least to function enough to live their lives mostly out of bed.
Many switch from Mattress Island to Couch Island at any given time,
but eventually spend most of their time in their beds—their
symptoms are consuming them on so many levels, symptoms that are
mostly debilitating. People on Mattress Island have trouble
showering, doing basic kitchen chores and even have trouble holding
themselves up. Vertigo, dizziness, heart palpitations, fatigue,
anxiety, aches, pains, eye blurriness, and brain fog are just a few
of the symptoms they may suffer from. Unless someone has lived
these symptoms and lived through Mattress Island, it’s nearly
impossible to see it with clarity. If someone does see it and has
compassion for the ones going through life on and off of Mattress
Island, it is a blessing because Mattress Island is not truly
respected like it should be. Many people land on Mattress Island
part-time, for a couple hours a day, not including nighttime sleep
hours, and those couple of hours a day can be hard enough when
watching the world hustle and bustle around them. There is a way to
get strong, to heal and to leave Mattress Island—countless people
have. They found answers when there were none to be found, they
applied Medical Medium tools and rose out of the ashes of sickness
and healed their mystery chronic illnesses. They arrived in the
light of healing and when they look back, they never forget their
Mattress Island days. In this episode, you will have new insight
and wisdom on the road to healing and what so many have gone
through… In this episode… Learn about what it means to be on
Mattress Island and why people can’t just “get out of bed” or “get
up off the couch.” Discover what it’s like to be in a situation
where the bed is your friend and your island. Uncover the
difference between someone who’s suffering from chronic illness on
Mattress Island versus someone who broke their leg or someone who
caught the flu. Learn about the hardships of being on and off of
Mattress Island and how keeping the faith is critical because
healing and recovery is more than possible. Discover how the longer
you are on Mattress Island, the more friends you could lose, and
how lonely of a place it can be. Uncover why being on Mattress
Island doesn’t mean they need a lot of sleep, and why there’s so
much misunderstanding surrounding laying on the bed and couch all
day and all night. Learn how people on Mattress Island are more
sensitive and more attuned to things that others might not be to.
Discover why spiritual guidance from someone who lived or lives on
Mattress Island is different than guidance from someone who’s had
more freedoms and hasn’t suffered from chronic illness. Uncover how
to get off of Mattress Island. All this and more, tune in and don’t
miss out on this important episode. You can revisit this episode
anytime you need it. For more information visit
www.medicalmedium.com