Does your IBS decide? Or do you?
I know this subject can be triggering. However, if I am bringing it up, it’s because there is a truth in here that you need to see.
Before I found the way out of irritable bowel syndrome, I would wake up in the morning with IBS symptoms – and be tiptoing around all day trying not to set of a flare up.
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.
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 life is going past.
I did exactly the same. Until a couple of deaths, an unexpected, unchosen move and job change 10xed my IBS.
From tiptoing around IBS, I had irritable bowel symptoms going on 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:
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.
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 with food you can eat?
Is it deciding what you wear?
Are you wearing dark clothing, or larger clothes with elastic waistbands? Is that actually what you want to wear?
Does your IBS let you get a good night’s sleep?
Or do symptoms have you tossing and turning, or have you up during the night. or early in the morning, even on weekends?
Does it limit travel?
Do you have dreams of exploring the world, or just relaxing in an exotic place somewhere?
Of going to Paris? Or skiing in the Alps?
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 back yourself into a job that is “doable with IBS” but that is not really lighting your fire?
Or stuck underearning.
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, you are not doing what you want to with your life.
Reverse your IBS now
Once you see everywhere your IBS is deciding for you by default, you can change it.
Reversing IBS is a big job. You need to find and release your IBS triggers so you can be free of all this.
It took me three and a half 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, I have very limited availability for private coaching.
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.