5 Reasons You Are Not Healing
1. You have undiagnosed digestion problems
You have changed your diet for the better: given up gluten, tried a low fat diet or going dairy free, or maybe you even went whole hog and did the Paleo diet. Yet you only feel marginally better and are still experiencing unexplained weight gain, weight loss, or gastrointestinal issues. Diet is KING, however, it does not matter if you have the most perfect, unadulterated diet if you are not digesting the food becomes toxins in your system.
2. You are chasing symptoms
Have you ever googled your symptoms and let your imagination run wild with all the debilitating and deadly illnesses you might have? According to the internet, you probably have thousands of diseases! Talk about anxiety! Let a professional narrow it down for you. Every nongenetic disease can be mapped back to an imbalance in at least one of the body’s three major systems (gastrointestinal, detox, and neuroendocrine). You need an expert to review each system in order to determine if and why you are imbalanced.
3. You are not treating the root cause of the issue
The heart of functional medicine is to ask why, and then ask why again. For example, if a woman has hormone imbalance symptoms, she should be asking why? If testing points toward adrenal fatigue, the next question is why did she get into adrenal fatigue? Fixing the “why” is the real answer to healing.
4. You are under stress
Stress of any degree impairs the body, including the stress that comes from trying to self-diagnose and self-treat. Let me help you navigate the healing process. Not only will you get better faster, it will be less expensive in the long run. With my help, you can eliminate the guesswork and the learning process, and simply focus on just getting better.
5. You want quick results
You have done the work—eliminated stress as much as possible, addressed your GI and digestive system concerns, created a nutrition plan with your functional medicine practitioner—and you want to feel better today. If you’ve never heard it before, this will definitely not be the last time you hear it: healing takes time. I attended a kettlebell workshop where the instructor told all the participants that we could go to workshop after workshop, but we would not excel at the sport unless we spent some time actually lifting the bell. He was right. This applies to all areas of life, including healing. You have attended the “workshops” and started the “heavy lifting,” now let the healing take its course. We are all bio individual, and that means your body is unique. It may take twice as long as you might prefer, but you can and will heal.
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