So often when having a coaching business, we have to ponder, what do I want to do in my business, how do I want to help others? What is it exactly that I want those I work with to remember me for and how can I help them?
I have suffered from chronic symptoms and disease off and on many times in my life. I wondered why I could go for years at a time feeling really good and then what felt like all of a sudden, I would start to develop the same old symptoms again. There was also a time in my life when it wasn’t the usual severe digestive symptoms, it was new arthritic and neurological ones that became debilitating. I’m not talking about some achiness in the morning. I’m talking I couldn’t turn a doorknob without being in severe pain. It was constant and with chronic pain you focus on it all the time because there just doesn’t seem like there is any relief ever.
I eventually changed a lot about my life and sought help from many different sources. I very gradually felt better and healed, but it really changed how I looked at health, my life and how I didn’t want others to suffer. There is nothing quite like symptoms and pain to get our attention. It’s as if everything else in life doesn’t matter. And it doesn’t, not until you start to feel better.
The common theme I noticed in my own life when symptoms began again is that before they developed I was under some type of stress that made me feel overwhelmed, trapped, powerless and out of control. Here’s the thing, some of these events may have been normal stressors that I believed I couldn’t process. Other times, there were multiple major stressors that just put me over the edge. When I developed the arthritis and neurological symptoms that was case. There were other factors that contributed to this like a career change, starting a business, multiple situations of loss on many levels and other difficult situations. A word about grief. This can be the #1 stressor that can initiate symptoms that develop into disease.
In my own life, I knew grief was having a huge impact on how I felt and contributed to me not recovering as fast, but I didn’t realize how much of an impact. Keep grief in mind if you have been feeling poorly for a while and you have experienced it recently.
After I recovered from feeling awful and wondering why the chronic symptoms had been such a recurrent part of my life, I knew I had to help others. I didn’t want anyone to go down the same path I did. No one wants to spend time researching more, scouring the internet for answers and doing everything by trial and error. This is why I became a health coach. I want to give you insights into what inside or outside stressors are contributing to you not feeling good.
Yes, diet is super important, but you have to address what’s going on in your life. There can be situations where you may think, I’m not that upset, worried, bothered, annoyed etc. by this or that until someone actually asks you about them and like a flood gate, the waters of what’s really going on open up and pour out. That’s when you’re on to something. This was my situation and it may be yours.
This is why I address this with every client. It’s ok if you have some things in your life that don’t feel right,, that bug you, that you wish were different. Who doesn’t really? What’s important is to address them, get to the bottom of them and feel empowered to not develop symptoms as a result of high stress levels.
In conclusion, my aim is to reduce the amount of suffering in this world with tools I have and first hand experience. You don’t want to spend more time worrying and wondering if you are ever going to feel better. You are strong, resilient and smart. There’s always right now to make a change.
Peace, health and love
