Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women

If someone asked how you’re feeling right now, would your answer be “stressed”?
For women with chronic illness and autoimmune disease, that one word is often covering dread, loneliness, resentment and disappointment, and each of those needs something different from you. In this mini, I share what a UCLA brain-scan study found happens when you put a feeling into words.
In this mini, you’ll discover:
Why “stressed” is covering up a lot of very different feelings
What happened in the brain when people named their emotions in a 2007 UCLA study
One question to ask yourself every time you say “I’m so stressed”
My FREE Emotional Root Prompt shows you the emotions and patterns that may be fueling your physical symptoms, so you’re not starting from a blank page. CLICK HERE.
Research discussed: Putting feelings into words: affect labeling disrupts amygdala activity in response to affective stimuli (Lieberman et al., Psychological Science, 2007). PMID: 17576282
For women navigating Chronic Illness, Autoimmune Disease, IBS, Digestive Disorders, Migraines, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Pain, PCOS, and Endometriosis.

You’ve said no to the dinner, the trip and the job you keep looking at, and told yourself it’s just until you’re better.
But if you live with chronic illness or autoimmune disease, the thing you’re really avoiding might not be the flare at all. It might be the emotions you are forced to manage if it all goes “wrong”.
I share why that waiting can keep you sick, and what three days at the beach did for my skin that three months on AIP couldn’t.
In this episode, you’ll discover:
Why the thing you’re avoiding usually isn’t the symptom, it’s the feelings that come afterwards
Why waiting to heal before you live has the order backwards
A simple way to bring three things you’ve put on hold back into your life this month
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For women navigating Chronic Illness, Autoimmune Disease, IBS, Digestive Disorders, Migraines, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Pain, PCOS, and Endometriosis.

You've got big plans for your life. A business, a promotion, a trip you've been dreaming about for years. And every time you go after them, your body says no.
If you're an ambitious woman living with chronic illness, the grief of having big dreams in a body that can't keep up is real. In my work, what hurts most usually isn't the dream. It's the deadline you've put on it, and that's one of the emotional patterns your body feels every single day. In this mini, I'll show you how to keep wanting big things without putting a date on them.
In this mini, you'll discover:
Why the grief of being ambitious with chronic illness is really about the timeline
What living on a deadline does to your body every day
One simple shift that lets you keep wanting big things without the pressure
My free Emotional Root Prompt connects your physical symptoms to the emotional patterns that may be underneath them in under 30 seconds. CLICK HERE.
For women navigating Chronic Illness, Autoimmune Disease, IBS, Digestive Disorders, Migraines, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Pain, PCOS, and Endometriosis.

First it was one food. Then another. Then the new lotion. Now it feels like everything sets you off. If you live with chronic illness, you've probably watched the list of things your body reacts to keep growing, and felt your world get smaller with it.
Every new trigger feels like a purely physical problem. In my work with women with chronic illness and autoimmune disease, there's almost always an emotional pattern sitting underneath it too. Your body learns by association, and when a reaction shows up in a hard season of your life, your body can link the two. In this episode we look at what that means for you, and what to do with it.
In this episode, you'll discover:
Why the list of things your body reacts to keeps growing
How your body learns to link a reaction to what's happening around it
One mind-body practice that turns your scanning habit into a way to show your body it's safe
My free Emotional Root Prompt connects your physical symptoms to the emotional patterns that may be underneath them in under 30 seconds. CLICK HERE.
For women navigating Chronic Illness, Autoimmune Disease, IBS, Digestive Disorders, Migraines, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Pain, PCOS, and Endometriosis.

My fibro. My Hashimoto's. My endo. My flare. If you live with chronic illness, you've probably said some version of this a hundred times this week without hearing it.
It sounds like nothing. But "my" is a word you use for the things that belong to you, the things that are part of who you are. And every time you put it in front of your diagnosis, you're filing the illness under your identity. For women with chronic illness and autoimmune disease, it's one of the smallest emotional patterns there is, and one of the easiest to start changing this week.
In this mini, you'll discover:
Why one small word turns a diagnosis into part of who you are
What changes when you put a little space between you and your symptoms
A one-word swap to practise for the next seven days
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For women navigating Chronic Illness, Autoimmune Disease, IBS, Digestive Disorders, Migraines, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Pain, PCOS, and Endometriosis.