#13. Anticipating Your Next Flare Is More Damaging Than Your Chronic Symptoms — And You're Doing It Right Now
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#13. Anticipating Your Next Flare Is More Damaging Than Your Chronic Symptoms — And You're Doing It Right Now
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Summary
Women navigating chronic illness and autoimmune illness face unpredictable flare ups.
A research study from the University College London found something that changes everything we know about the impact of this unpredictability on the body.
In this episode, you'll discover:
- Why uncertainty about your symptoms may be doing more damage than the symptoms themselves
- How the brain's response to unpredictability keeps the body in a chronic stress state it cannot switch off
- One practical shift that begins to change your relationship with uncertainty — even before the symptoms change
If you're not sure what your body is trying to tell you, this is where you start. Use my free ChatGPT prompt to identify the emotional patterns behind your symptoms in under 30 seconds. CLICK HERE.
Here is the study discussed in this episode.
de Berker, A., Rutledge, R., Mathys, C. et al. Computations of uncertainty mediate acute stress responses in humans. Nat Commun 7, 10996 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10996
For women navigating Chronic Illness, Autoimmune Disease, IBS, Digestive Disorders, Migraines, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Pain, PCOS, and Endometriosis.