Is your body trying to get your attention?

For years, I viewed my MS symptoms as a sign that my body was not working properly and it was failing.

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Very often the language used to describe autoimmune disorders further concretize this - ‘battle’ ‘fight’ ‘ dysfunctional’ ‘suppression’ ‘out of control’.

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However more recently and the more I’ve worked with other women with MS, I see the symptoms differently. Like the body is waving huge red flag to get our attention.

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To let us know that it’s trying its hardest to work for us, but it’s being overloaded and overwhelmed with too many immune activating triggers.

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Whether that’s intestinal permeability, food proteins mimicking parts of the body, stress, environmental toxins, or viruses, mycotoxins, heavy metals… there is a long list in modern day living.

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But if we recognise that the body is actually trying to work for us rather than against us.

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If we can support it better to do its job and reduce the load then it gives us something to work on.

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Then it feels right.

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And a lot kinder.