18/12/2025
My devotion to learning the language of the body’s ecosystem of intelligence began in my early twenties, after being diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / M.E. over 12 years ago - when I was told I was remain as unwell as I was, for the rest of my life.
Why?
Because by the age of 21, I was still on a cocktail of prescriptions that doctors had promised would heal the pain I had been living with since a car crash at 17.
Then the story changed.
They told me I was addicted.
And that was it.
I stopped taking all of the doctors’ “help” at once.
No more pills filled with false promises.
Instead, I began asking different questions and returning to the natural approaches my mother had always trusted throughout my childhood.
In the months that followed, something profound happened.
I began to relearn the conversation within my body. Every sensation that had been trying, desperately, to communicate with me for five years suddenly came back online all at once.
But my system was already in overload.
It had shut down. Almost given up.
The signals were scrambled and confused.
My body no longer trusted the framework it had been placed in.
I had lived for years under the illusion of certainty, of external authority, of false promises.
And yet, this collapse became the most powerful initiation of my life.
An invitation into embodiment.
Into relationship with my body as a living, intelligent ecosystem.
Into understanding the body as a temple of miraculous nature.
And into recognising that our relationship with ourselves is the anchor for how we relate to others, because we are not separate. We are part of a living, breathing, interdependent organism.
I am sharing this alongside a Gabor Maté video, because his work speaks so clearly to what I have lived.
The body and emotions are not separate.
They are one conversation.
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