Does your IBS decide?

The IBS Interrupt™ Perspective: This post explores how living with chronic gut symptoms slowly steals your choices – and how realizing just how much IBS is directing your daily life is the first step to taking your power back.
– The Hidden Connection: When you are constantly tiptoeing around food, clothing choices, travel plans, or career options “just in case” of a flare-up, unconscious IBS patterns are running your life.
– The Shift: Realising that IBS will continue to decide for you – until you decide that this has to change.
– Key Takeaway: Finding your unique triggers to safely reverse your IBS is the core of my 3-step IBS Interrupt™ Process.

How much control do you feel you have over your IBS?

Before I found the way out of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, I would be tiptoing around all day trying not to set of a major flare up. I felt I had some control, but not as much as I would have liked…

I would spend a great deal of time and effort avoiding what seemed to be triggering me. And just when I thought I had won, suddenly a flare-up would come out of nowhere.

Maybe you can relate.

I meet people all the time who have IBS and are “putting up with it” hoping that it will go away “someday”. And what is sad is that IBS symptoms are stealing their choices – while their life is going by.

I did exactly the same. Until some major life experiences (that we all go through someday) considerably worsened my IBS.

Then I found myself with Irritable Bowel symptoms 7/7. So I was forced to try to “cure” the incurable.

How much is IBS deciding for you?

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” CG Jung

Awareness is key. Until we realise just how much IBS is getting in the way of us living our best life, we will keep putting up with it. While life goes by.

So here are a few questions for you to ponder about how much control you feel you have:

Does your IBS decide WHAT you eat?

Are you one of many people stuck on the low Fodmap diet, and not getting much taste in your life?

Every IBS sufferer I talk to is doing this, or has to be “extra careful” and tiptoe around food intolerance.

When all they want is to go out and have a really good, tasty meal cooked by someone else.

I can do this now, and order anything I fancy. But for 25 years IBS decided I couldn’t.

Does your IBS decide WHEN you eat?

Did you used to love breakfast? Or a lazy brunch? And now you can’t face much before noon?

Has “enjoying a meal” become a thing of the past as you wrestle trying to find food you can eat?

Is it deciding what you wear?

Are you wearing dark clothing, or larger clothes with elastic waistbands? Just to cover up bloating and hide any “accidents”? Is that really what you want to wear – or what you’re forced to wear for peace of mind?

Does your IBS let you get a good night’s sleep?

Or do cramps and bloating have you tossing and turning? Or do they have you up during the night. Or early in the morning, even on weekends?

Does Irritable Bowel stop or limit travel?

Do you have dreams of exploring the world, or just relaxing on a tropical beach somewhere?

Do you fancy a trip to Paris? Or skiing in Italy?

Or simply going and visiting your son, or daughter?

Do you have dreams in your back pocket that aren’t happening “for now”?

Because of your IBS.

Do IBS symptoms limit the kind of job you do? And how much you earn?

Have you backed yourself into a job that is “doable with IBS”, but that is not really lighting your fire?

Or stuck underearning, because a promotion requires you to feel good and focus?

Does IBS impact your romantic life?

Do you find, as many IBS sufferers do, that it is taking over your romantic life?

Either making you feel uncomfortable finding a partner.

Or making you feel totally unattractive and interfering with your sex life?

Does it have you cancelling plans?

Or maybe you don’t make the plans in the first place “just in case”? Either way, maybe you are no longer doing what you want to with your life.

Interrupt your IBS

Once you see everywhere your IBS is deciding for you, you can decide to change it. And take control back.

Interrupting IBS is a solid process. You need to find and release your IBS triggers so you can interrupt the symptom cycles for good.

It took me nearly 4 years full time of sliding all over the place and trying things to start getting results. My coaching clients typically do this in 6 months.

If you want to considerably speed up the process and get expert guidance, don’t delay!

The opportunity to take part in the next IBS Core Reset Program (runs from July to December 2026) is nearly over.

We start the first week in July, so why not decide to join me on a Discovery Call and see if I can help you.

We are all wasting far too much of our lives and our potential on IBS.

If you want to stop IBS deciding for you, YOU must decide that this is changing TODAY.