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If you’ve been stuck in the cycle of food fear, daily urgency, and digestive uncertainty, this episode will give you hope. Jessie sits down with Mariela, a past IBS Freedom Program client who went from years of unpredictable diarrhoea and anxiety to having regular bowel movements, a calm mind, and full confidence in her food choices.

Together they unpack what it was like for Mariela to live with undiagnosed IBS for nearly a decade, why food elimination on her own didn’t work, and how working with a dietitian in a structured group program finally gave her clarity and symptom relief that lasted.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

✔️ How Mariela managed travel anxiety and urgent bathroom needs 

✔️ Why her trigger wasn’t solved with random food elimination 

✔️ What the trigger identification process actually looked like 

✔️ How she reintroduced dairy, garlic, onions (and got her life back) 

✔️ Why group support helped her feel understood and less alone 

✔️ What life looks like now: travel, food freedom, regularity

Timestamps:

[00:00] Intro: Meet Mariela and her IBS story 

[03:06] Symptoms: Urgency, diarrhoea & migraine history 

[05:36] When testing failed & IBS was diagnosed 

[08:03] The turning point: Travel anxiety & finding Jessie 

[09:22] First appointment: feeling hope again 

[12:18] Group program benefits & tracking progress 

[16:22] The trigger identification process explained 

[18:06] Reintroducing dairy, garlic & onions 

[21:49] Learning from poop (yes, really) 

[24:12] Life now: freedom, planning, and confidence 

[26:36] Mariela’s message for others with IBS

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