Flare-Up Support
I want to talk about something that almost never gets named as a pattern, because it’s dressed up as the most responsible thing a woman with persistent pain or symptoms can possibly do: looking for answers. I did it for eighteen years. Appointments, tests, elimination diets, supplements, forums, second opinions, and more late-night searching than […]
Fibromyalgia is one of the diagnoses in my medical history now, but by the time I received it, I was already very familiar with having a body that seemed to produce symptoms that did not fit neatly into one explanation. For years, I dealt with pelvic pain, digestive issues, food sensitivities, back and hip pain, […]
Nobody talks about this part enough, so I’m going to. Chronic pelvic pain doesn’t just hurt you. It teaches you not to trust the thing that’s hurting. And that distrust becomes its own injury, one that usually gets far less attention than the physical symptoms themselves. By the time most of my clients find me, […]
I need to say something, and some people in the pelvic pain space are not going to love it. Every protocol, every elimination diet, every “here’s what triggers a flare” list is built around the same instruction: avoid this. Avoid gluten. Avoid dairy. Avoid sitting too long. Avoid tight clothes. Avoid certain positions. Avoid stress. […]
If you’ve been living with chronic pelvic pain, you may know the very specific heartbreak of hearing, “Everything looks normal,” when absolutely nothing about your life feels normal. You’re still planning around pain. You’re still wondering if dinner, sitting too long, sex, stress, travel, your cycle, or “doing too much” will trigger another flare. You […]
