Show Notes
Get In Touch! In this episode, I talk about my own journey with health anxiety after my diagnosis in 2018 and how it completely changed the way I related to my body. I share how fear, symptom scanning and the need for certainty slowly took over my life, and why nobody explaining the nervous system side of health anxiety left me feeling stuck for years. I also talk about one of the biggest shifts in my recovery… learning that trusting my body did not mean constantly monitoring it. For so long,...
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