01/01/2025
Whoosh✨
Celebrating nearly 7 years since finding myself disabled by an illness I’d kept quiet about for 20 years🥲
After breaking many addictive cycles including binge drinking alcohol and caffeine, chronic pain and chronic fatigue, I lived with severe illness for 2.5 weeks of each month for many years🤕
In the past year I’ve been able to go on days out hiking over those same 2.5 weeks, climbed a few mountains, enjoyed so much more energy, health and wellbeing😃
I’ve been able to function through illness for over 2 years👏
People ask me all the time “what’s changed⁉️”
A question I used to find immensely triggering🤯
This year I’ve been able to connect with what really did change that fateful day I realised I could no longer drag myself into work in the same way I had been doing for the prior 3 years💡
💡I no longer saw anyone in authority as right and me as wrong.
💡I woke up with a new belief system “I matter. My health matters”.
💡I intuitively knew what I needed to do. Research and make changes. I knew it was going to take a long time.
💡I started asking myself big questions. What do I need? How do I reduce increased risk of heart disease and stroke happening to me?
Please let this be a reminder that
You matter.
Your health matters.
You have a whole 365 days to start rewriting a new story.
A lot can change in a year❤️🩹
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If you are sick and tired of feeling sick and tired and now find yourself looking for join all those of us with our masks off, showing up as we are and surround yourself with those of us where no explanation is required. We get it.
You can find all this (the one thing I most desperately needed back in 2018) in phenomenal resource and home of newly launched podcast Your Migraine Story Matters over on Warrior Within. Link in comments.
No more suffering alone.
