Recently on my instagram, @thelovelydigest, I’ve started sharing more reels about how you can jump start your healing process and take actionable steps to change your life. Because these steps are so crucial in leading a healthy life, I wanted to go into more detail about them here.

The more I’ve done my own research into what it means to experience trauma, the more I’ve found that trauma encompasses a wide range of things. There’s even subcategories, like medical trauma and childhood trauma.

My pain and desperation fueled my need to understand my body, and the minute I learned and started watching videos and reading scientific articles, my mindset changed. Instead of feeling helpless, I became in control.

Curing a chronic illness is impossible, healing from it, is not. Finding peace around my illness and taking time every day to learn something new about myself is my definition of healing. We can only do our best to work with what we’re given and see the potential for joy in our situation.

By reframing anxiety, we can learn to be at peace with our emotions and walk through them instead of fighting them.

A mini-biofeedback experiment that helped me to determine activities that made me more stressed and when to take a deep breath.

Sustainable living is a term that gets thrown around quite a lot, but what does it really mean? For me this list applies to anything and everything. I think about and implement this process when buying clothes, homewares, and even pantry and bathroom supplies. I always want to know what’s going on, in, and around my body!

As I have become a part of the gastrointestinal medicine world, I have also been alarmed by the amount of side effects and damage done by doctors to their patients. Reading horror stories has sparked a flame to educate myself on my disease and how my own body works so I can take some control of my wellbeing. I do not want to be a passenger on my own journey!