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Episode 430: What Happens When You Face Pain Head-On？
What happens when you face pain? Instagram https://www.instagram.com/theannetteleonard or my website https://www.annetteleonard.com
I recently spent a month in near-total isolation. When these illnesses flare up and take time like this, it's difficult to roll with the physical and emotional toll.
From dropping the communication balls, to missing landmarks in people's lives, and not participating in friends/family's lives and wondering if I'll be forgotten, it plays with my mind and emotions. I think these are also worthiness-wounds, wondering if people will think I'm worth the work of all this. Then there's the internal stuff: I don't know if I can manage this pain. What if this is my new normal? and the way the pain feeds the fear, feeds the pain, feeds the fear...
Therapy helps and so does having a contemplative practice. When I lean into the pain instead of fearing it, I can tolerate more than I previously thought.
This is how I muddle through.
This time instead of being all alone with my fear and pain, I sent a voice memo flag to a few of my closest friends asking for some text support. Doing this is hard for me: reaching out instead of withdrawing. It helped me immeasurably to have words of love and affirmation be there to greet e when I surfaced.
You're worth that.
What are your habits?
What serves you in flares and times when your illnesses overwhelm?
**I have a new mini-course I'm finishing about how to unlock the power of your next doctor appointment*** the first 50 people get FREE enrollment. Sign up here https://www.annetteleonard.com/waitlist
This is the Chronic Wellness Podcast. I'm Annette Leonard, speaker, coach, and sick person who believes that my illnesses do not define me. If health is the absence of disease and wellness is the presence of wholeness, then no matter what your disease status, we can work toward your wellness, your wholeness.
Whether or not you are ever "healthy" on paper, you can be well. Join me and others on the path back to wholeness at AnnetteLeonard.com. Whether you are a person experiencing chronic illness or are someone who loves or serves people with chronic illness I have great resources here on this channel or on my website for you.
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What happens when you face pain? Instagram https://www.instagram.com/theannetteleonard or my website https://www.annetteleonard.com
I recently spent a month in near-total isolation. When these illnesses flare up and take time like this, it's difficult to roll with the physical and emotional toll.
From dropping the communication balls, to missing landmarks in people's lives, and not participating in friends/family's lives and wondering if I'll be forgotten, it plays with my mind and emotions. I think these are also worthiness-wounds, wondering if people will think I'm worth the work of all this. Then there's the internal stuff: I don't know if I can manage this pain. What if this is my new normal? and the way the pain feeds the fear, feeds the pain, feeds the fear...
Therapy helps and so does having a contemplative practice. When I lean into the pain instead of fearing it, I can tolerate more than I previously thought.
This is how I muddle through.
This time instead of being all alone with my fear and pain, I sent a voice memo flag to a few of my closest friends asking for some text support. Doing this is hard for me: reaching out instead of withdrawing. It helped me immeasurably to have words of love and affirmation be there to greet e when I surfaced.
You're worth that.
What are your habits?
What serves you in flares and times when your illnesses overwhelm?
**I have a new mini-course I'm finishing about how to unlock the power of your next doctor appointment*** the first 50 people get FREE enrollment. Sign up here https://www.annetteleonard.com/waitlist
This is the Chronic Wellness Podcast. I'm Annette Leonard, speaker, coach, and sick person who believes that my illnesses do not define me. If health is the absence of disease and wellness is the presence of wholeness, then no matter what your disease status, we can work toward your wellness, your wholeness.
Whether or not you are ever "healthy" on paper, you can be well. Join me and others on the path back to wholeness at AnnetteLeonard.com. Whether you are a person experiencing chronic illness or are someone who loves or serves people with chronic illness I have great resources here on this channel or on my website for you.