This isn’t medical advice — this is lived experience.
Some years back I was hospitalized with diverticulitis.
And here’s what’s strange:
I don’t fit the usual profile.
Not the age.
Not the diet.
Not the lifestyle.
And yet — there I was.
Lying in a hospital bed, in pain, confused, and searching for answers.
Then something clicked.
I had read When the Body Says No, The Deepest Well, and The Body Keeps the Score — but suddenly, those words weren’t just theory.
They were real.
They were me.
Because here’s what I now know in my bones:
🩶 The body remembers everything.
Not just what happened, but what didn’t.
Not just the words spoken, but the ones swallowed.
Not just the chaos, but the silence that followed.
For years, I had been “good.”
– Good at holding it all together.
– Good at putting others first.
– Good at staying quiet to keep the peace.
– Good at swallowing grief, rage, fear — because there never felt like a safe place to put it.
But here’s the truth no one talks about:
Being “good” in a world that doesn’t protect or honour your emotional wellbeing comes at a cost.
The gut — our second brain — is deeply tied to emotion and intuition. And it can only hold so much.
Eventually, when we keep bypassing our own needs, when we override our instincts, when we carry emotional loads that were never ours to hold — the body will speak.
Mine did. Loudly.
And now I’m stuck with this condition for life.
But I’m not sharing this for pity — I’m sharing it for awareness.
For anyone else whose body is screaming what their voice never got to say.
This could’ve been prevented.
Not just with diet, or supplements — but with truth.
With boundaries.
With permission to not be good all the time.
With healing what we carry before it turns into pain.
Because when the body speaks —
It’s not just reacting.
It’s revealing.
The truth is stored somewhere, whether we acknowledge it or not.
Start listening.
Start releasing.
Start choosing yourself — not just to survive, but to live.
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