Hope

‘Hope is the thing with feathers on that perches in the Soul’ - Emily Dickinson

Arguably one of the hardest things to face with chronic illness is dealing with hope. I received a recent email that really resonated with me that said that after so many years of illness, it’s not so much the loss of money at all the failed interventions (however galling), but how fragile your hope is and how painful it is to have it crushed, cumulatively so.

Many people reach a plateau at which you can operate, where your world has become very small. You impose limitations on your life to make you safe and your symptoms manageable - your food, environment and energy is controlled, you micro-manage everything so that to the external world you often appear to be functioning normally. These limitations make your world and experiences smaller but make your life bearable. Many reach a stage where they are happy coasting at this level, and they almost forget that they have issues because their world is so fixed that they hardly ever step out of it. 

There is also a message in many health spaces of being grateful for what you have, of accepting your limitations and finding the best in life. I feel in a way that’s a double-edged sword. 

It’s a wonderful message when your limitations really are permanent; if you’ve suffered a terrible accident where you’ve lost a leg, this is exactly what you should be channeling without question. But if you have an illness or imbalance that has switched on at some point, then I just want to encourage you to step outside the belief that it is permanent and that you have to accept it. It can be challenging though especially when your hope has already taken a battering.

I offer a money-back guarantee not just so that I can reassure people of the financial investment, but to try to prop up that very fragile hope that is inside of you, whether you use my methods or not. It is the hope that I am speaking to when I say that life does not have to be about plateaus, that if your illness has been switched on then its more than likely it can be switched off. That your world can be bigger and as grateful as I was for how beautifully my body worked while I was ill, I am a million times more grateful for how beautifully it works now that I am not.