Hey Friend
Getting the chance to talk to the people who have inspired you is amazing though I did have to do a bit of attitude adjustment to stay calm, see them as other people like me and not end up being a babbling mess!
Apologies for not emailing you for Episode 6 of the podcast with the lovely Indira Shyju.
I am still finding my feet and working to create some routines and structure as I ease back into seeing how much I can do and how much rest I need to stay balanced and functioning.
That's one of the issues with chronic illness, isn't it Friend. The unpredictability and uncertainty of it all. Most days, I can get things done that I need and want to with a bit of energy left over to spare.
Other days, I do what I need to do then sit on the couch and rest. When you have so much that you want to get done and no desire, energy or motivation to do it, it can feel really hard not to feel frustrated or guilty or anxious but I made a promise to myself that I will refuse to blame myself or think less of myself when I need to rest.
When you can't change a situation, the one thing you CAN change is how you choose to see yourself in it.
I did my first professional public speaking event this week, post illness and I am off again tomorrow to give the same talk to the other half of year 11 students about emotional responsibility and how not to be manipulated.
Wouldn't life have been much easier to have those valuable skills at 16 or 17 years old?
Because it's about an hours drive and public speaking does use up a lot of energy because it's something I haven't done for quite a while and I don't feel as confident as I used to feel, I have the rest of the day cleared out when I get home to rest.
Scheduling in rest time has been crucial to being able to work again. The hardest part was working through my own resistance about it because it was something that I didn't really need to consider before Hashimoto's.
And all of these life style changes, emotionally and physically is something that I got to chat about with Indira in episode 6 and Eileen Laird in this weeks Episode 7 of the Emotional Autoimmunity podcast.
Both have Rheumatoid Arthritis, both had to learn to manage intense pain and disability and both have completely changed their lives including, how they now work and live.
Eileen talks about working through the feelings of failure at needing to take medication, how Phoenix Helix came to be her new career and passion and how she feels about flares now.
Indira talks about the impacts her illness had on her husband and children and the unexpected benefits and skills it gave them, as well as her new passion for keeping a family tradition of recipes alive and sharing them with the world.
I think you will love these two women. I know that I do and I admire them both immensely.
I have some great guests lined up for you to meet over the coming weeks so keep an eye on your inbox for when the next podcast is published.
Have a listen on the blog using the link below or find me over at Apple Podcasts/iTunes, on Spotify or Ask Alexa to play the Emotional Autoimmunity podcast.
As I don't have enough reviews yet for iTunes to notice my podcast, I would so appreciate if you could leave a review and help my podcast be seen and found by more people who need it.
3 spots opening up in late February/early March for new clients.
I am finishing up with 3 clients over the next two weeks which means that I have room for 3 new ones.
Here are some of the issues I have been helping people with so far:
- Working through the overwhelm of diagnosis and disability and supporting them to make a few difficult choices and decisions about relationships, jobs and treatment options.
- Finding and removing the underlying childhood trauma that was contributing to pain, flares and inflammation and giving them tools to manage and re-frame the day to day challenges and changes of living with chronic illness.
- Releasing overwhelming anxiety, loneliness and feelings of isolation and feeling stuck between the past and an uncertain future.
- Working with couples to help them reconnect and teach them how to communicate clearly to save their relationship and grow even stronger together.
- Resolving lingering feelings of confusion, sadness, self-blame and regret when a relationship unexpectedly ended and unravelling the patterns of behaviour so that future relationships will be very different.
Are you struggling with grief and guilt and the impact of your illness on your relationship?
Has chronic illness traumatised you or triggered old trauma from your past that is causing you pain, anxiety and overwhelm?
Are you stuck in anxiety and overwhelm and just don't know what to do or even how to move forward?
Are you wanting to help yourself heal but constantly sabotaging any progress that you make just when it seems to be getting better?
Then book in your FREE Discovery Session with me now!
I work exclusively online with clients in the USA, Europe, New Zealand, The UK, Canada and any other country where we can make the time zones work.
Places for Discovery Sessions are limited so get yours today.
I would love to meet and work with you Friend.
Big hugs
Kerry | 
