I've learned over the years that if I actually ‘listen' to my body it usually tells me when it's feeling stressed, run-down, and not well. My challenge is to actually hear what my body is telling me. Over the years I have come to believe strongly in the mind/body connection, but I still have to practice listening and hearing. I'm sure that the stressful deadline which looms over my head right now is part of the cause of my flare-up today. And if I think back over the past couple of days I should have noticed that a flare-up was brewing. It sounds odd, I know, but over the years my husband and I have noticed that about a day before a flare-up I tend to get grumpy and use the word ‘damn' a lot, both for no apparent reason. Well, for the past two days I have been grumpy on-and-off and that word has crept into my conversation but it wasn't until this afternoon that I really ‘heard' what I'd been saying and what my body had been telling me.
Today I live with, or despite IBD, and it is no longer ‘mine,' it simply just is.
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You can read my whole story in my book: Living with IBD & IBS: A Personal Journey of Success, www.ibdandibs.com
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