Allergies and Decorative Painting

 

People with Chemical sensitivities can be allergic to paint

Allergies and Paint

I LOVED to paint. It was my life for a long time. 

If you read my book, Allergies and Chronic Fatigue  A Natural Approach, you will know that from a very young age I have been fascinated with painting, whether it is transforming and beautifying a door or wall or decorating a canvas, piece of paper or some wood.

Throughout my book you will see that every time I was exposed to paint from childhood, I became very ill. We now know this as chemical allergies.

Modern paint is full of chemicals. Goodness knows what they were full of in the 'Old' days. I passed my thirties a good while ago.

Paint contains a good dose of chemicals including toluene and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). These are BAD for people with allergies to chemicals. 

My Painting Career
For many years I painted - artistically - up to 12 hours a day with artists acrylics. I would not use artists oil paints as the brushes had to be cleaned in turpentine - another strong smelling chemical. One video I watched of an artist explaining how to paint even used petrol to clean his brushes!!!!!

Now I thought I could get away with these tubes of acrylic paints. After all it said on the plastic tube 'Non toxic'. Mmmm. To whom?

I painted folk art style and still love this simplistic version of painting. This style is often painted on wood or tin. The background has to be painted first. Here come the larger quantities of paint. Get the picture?

I also used to mix large quantities of background colour for my students - I taught painting for years too. Painting classes were a delight for me but I found that going home after a couple of classes I was totally drained. I had been exposed to paint from 12 students for 5 hours.

Well eventually my chemical allergies all came to a head and I ended up in bed - for years. But here I am.

My style of painting has changed a lot over the years, as happens. I used watercolour paint for a while as very little paint or pigment is used. It is different to acrylic paints. Now I can use acrylics again, but I will never use them to the same extent as before.

Chemical Sensitivities
If you have chemical sensitivities be careful with acrylic artist's paint too. It is not only the paint in the tubes but the tubes themselves are made out of plastic - more on that another day. People with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) need to be careful.

To see my Folk Art Books click here.
For more information on my book Allergies and Chronic Fatigue  A Natural
Approach click here.

Do You Have an Open Mind?

 

If we have an open mind then anything can happen. Sometimes we think we have an open mind but we are only looking at it from our own point of view. Many years ago when I was very ill with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and severe allergies so that I was locked in the house, in bed, out on a farm 40 kilometres from the nearest city, my daughter said to me,
'Mum what do you think about getting some healing?'
I said 'What's that?'
'You know, when energy comes out of a person's hand and it helps you.'
'No, sounds weird,' I said.


Well, wouldn't you know it? I had to open my mind! The universe conspired to lead me a merry way until I found out just what this HEALING could do for me.

Have you opened your mind to different healing modalities?

Many of these healing modalities are discussed in my book, from crystal healing, hands on healing, flower essences, tai chi, aromatherapy, massage, and healing with colour.

What a journey. You can read about it in Allergies and Chronic Fatigue  A Natural Approach. You can get the Table of Contents and the first chapter FREE.

The Table of Contents will show you all the different things discussed in the book. The first chapter starts with the worst of my illness - I didn't think I was going to make it, and nor did my husband. It was some journey. It would have been easier if I had just listened to my daughter and said 'Yes dear.'

Tell us what has helped you. We'd love to hear. I have now opened my mind to many possibilities, but, no doubt, have still further to open.

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by Thérèse Vahland

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Topics Covered

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Healthy EBooks

A story of illness and natural ways to overcome it

Allergies and Chronic Fatigue   A Natural Approach
The person we are today is the sum total of all our experiences throughout our life. We can change the person we will become through the new experiences we have. Some of these experiences we can choose and others seem to be thrust upon us. Hopefully we learn from our experiences and can use them to help others.

I am trying to help others by the sharing the knowledge I have gained throughout my life. 

This book chronicles the story of illness of allergies, asthma, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and just about any other name you can add. 

But what is in a name? Do we need a name to know that we do not feel well? People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome have tried for years to get help for their mysterious illness. Because I could get no relief from Western medicine, I chose to look into natural ways to improve my health. The journey is never ending. 

This ebook tells you many different ways that you can try. If you don't like one, then try another. 

There is always something to help if we will only open our mind and let the help in.

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This is a smaller book written in an easy conversational tone. It contains practical information to help you.

Both books written and designed by Therese Vahland