Are you doing your best managing IBS symptoms – but not yet healing IBS or getting all the relief you’re craving?
Maybe you think that there is no other choice. Or if you just stay with it, you’ll finally crack the IBS code.
It sounds logical enough. But here’s what you might be missing…
What managing IBS does
Managing IBS is a smart attempt at getting at least some relief from those IBS symptoms.
It feels good at first – much better than before. But it comes at a cost.
However, managing IBS is something you have to keep doing. It quietly steals a great deal of your free time and focus.
You spend time every day trying to “eat right” and do what it takes so that you don’t have an IBS flare.
If only you could be perfect or smart enough, the symptoms would stop.
The problem with this is that despite your best efforts, IBS symptoms still come and create chaos.
Managing symptoms will keep you avoiding foods you enjoy. It stops you doing activities you used to enjoy and pursuing the dreams you had.
I kept managing symptoms until I found myself backed into an anxious corner with increased food intolerance, daily flares – and no clear way out.
This is the point I decided this had to stop. As I realised that IBS was taking over my life.
What healing IBS does
The approach I use for healing IBS takes away the blame and shame.
You spend time observing yourself, understanding your triggers, and gently releasing them.
With each release you weaken the power that IBS trigger has over you. And take back the energy that was holding the trigger in place.
Until finally the trigger becomes neutral, and no longer creates a reaction in you.
Once you have released enough triggers, IBS symptoms no longer go off at unexpected times. And life gets so much easier.
You get to eat what you fancy and do what you like without any threat of impending IBS flares hanging over you.
You get to be the smart, confident, inspired, fun-loving person you are at heart.
The tighrope disappears. And so does the balancing act.
To manage IBS or to recover from IBS?
Here’s the thing many smart IBS sufferers are missing: All the time you are spending on managing symptoms you could be spending on healing your IBS and full IBS recovery.
When I was still suffering from chronic IBS symptoms, no-one was talking about IBS recovery.
I went on a wild, slippery, 4-year journey out of IBS without any diets, supplements, or meds. Then I distilled that knowledge into a successful 6-month process for private coaching clients.
Now there is a choice.