Living the life you want to live and feeling the way you want to feel takes more than following a diet plan and taking medication. It requires a mindset shift of both your situation and of yourself. You are capable of anything, as long as you set your mind to it.

It’s not easy, and can feel damn near impossible to change your eating habits and your relationship with food. Here are a few tips and tricks to help you get there.

Chronic Stress can be a hindrance to your ability to heal and reach remission. In this episode I discuss how meditation and mindfulness are tools that can be used to reduce chronic stress. Follow me on Instagram for more content: @nicolewakerd

A rant about how hard this is for me. How I can’t accept my Crohn’s and the changes I need to make. I’m addicted to food, emotionally attached, and live and breathe food. How do I move on and accept that my entire persona needs to change?

How Polyphenols can help your Crohn’s and my story updates

Crohn’s patients, researchers and medical professionals are all on different pages when it comes to diet and IBD. Why are we fighting and beating each other up over this?

Crohn’s takes away so much from us, in particular feelings of safety, control, and connection and thus significantly impacts our mental health. Check out Dr. John Delony YouTube

We need to talk about this more

It’s so hard to let go of the idea of the way life used to be, before disease. It’s upsetting, it’s aggravating and it’s depressing. The book “Didn’t See That Coming” by Rachel Hollis has tremendously helped me get through a very dark mental state and I recommend you pick it up.

I’m planning to quit medication and go the diet and lifestyle approach. This is why and this is how I’m doing this. Instagram: wake_nutrition feel free to follow and DM and questions you have.