S3E7-8: You Don’t Have To Choose Between Your Health and Enjoying Your Life - Parts 1&2 - [listener write-in]
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Do you experience guilt when it comes to choosing yourself?
Are you torn between expectations and ‘the way things are done’, and what you actually need?
Do you feel that living your life and avoiding flares is an either/or situation?
Are you confused by how acceptance will help you and feel resistance towards going there?
This week’s listener write-in is all about that. I talk about how the status quo of chronic illness - aka the fix, fight, reject, resist struggle - is keeping you stuck and anchored in non-acceptance, and how to get really honest with yourself as a starting point in moving through that.
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Highlights:
I’d love for you to get really clear on where you’re at with that right now. Tune into your body, take some quiet time, notice what words come into your head when you think of accepting your chronic illness, and notice what happens in your body. It’ll help to do a bit of journaling on this, and if there’s anything else that you know helps you unlock some of your deeper feelings, thoughts, beliefs, do that.
Figure out what you want acceptance to mean to you. Because you get to decide. How can you allow it to show up in your life and support you?
Compassionately challenge all the ‘why’s’ behind the idea that because you live with chronic illness, you just have to struggle on. Are they aligned? Are they serving you?
Much like the tale of The Struggle, the chronic illness rollercoaster does not have to be a way of life for you. Life off the rollercoaster is more about flow, steadiness, ‘slow-living’, calm, deep joy and happiness, not the saccharine sweet candy floss that’s handed to you as you whizz around at the funfair.
Without addressing the way we live with - and the beliefs we carry about - chronic illness, as a collective and individually, a gradual worsening of symptoms, or a dis-ease of living, will be many people’s experience.