My Story with IBD
Fighting IBD Naturally
Life with Crohn’s Disease
Life is hard. Life rarely ever turns out the way we expect it to or hope it will but maybe that’s ok. Maybe it’s life’s way of challenging us to become better versions of ourselves - allowing us to grow from our struggles and then help others. After 20 years of battling Crohn’s disease along with all of the other pressures and disappointments of life I’m still trying learn this lesson myself. I hope that the failures, disappointments, and lessons learned I share here help in whatever journey you are on in life. Be blessed.
Seasonal factors
While there are certain patterns I’m seeing in my own health related to seasonal factors I still have a lot to learn. It is clear to me that there are MANY factors that impact my overall health and learning how each of these things impact me personally (and what I can do to avoid / minimize them) will bring me better health in the long run…
Imperfect health
IBD always has a way of keeping you guessing. Just a few months after putting my story on social in 2021 I started showing some unexplained symptoms. In fact, I tend to have unexplained symptoms at least once or twice a year. I make adjustments quickly to get things under control but I never want to give off the perception that I have it all together…
Things I wish I knew…
I started this blog because I wanted to have a platform to say the things I wish I would have known 20 years ago when my journey with Crohn’s disease started. As I think about what I’d tell a younger version of myself there were three key phases of my journey where a little encouragement, guidance, and knowledge would have been helpful…
Diet + other factors
I have focused a majority of my posts specifically on my diet changes for two key reasons: 1) because so far over my 20 years with Crohn’s disease, diet has been the one factor that I have seen the most direct correlation to my symptoms and 2) diet has been one of the easiest factors to control, track, and tie back to symptoms. But…