19/07/2025
⚡️KEEP GOING. FIND A WAY. NEVER GIVE UP
My “Why”….. In the last year, around 1,111 of you have joined me.🫶🏼
My whole reason for sharing what I do is in the hope that it will help someone who’s in the same situation I was — bedbound, housebound, and terrifyingly unwell with M.E., POTS, then MCAS and mould illness.
I’ve been subjected to medical gaslighting — that look people give you when you’re describing your symptoms and you can see in their eyes: “Oh god, she’s such a hypochondriac.”
No, motherf**ker — it’s mitochondria, not hypochondria.
Friends and family kind of disappear and get on with their own lives when you’re no longer the bright, bubbly, fun-loving person they knew.
The grief and gravity of that. It’s huge and it’s something I’m going to write more about soon.
My journey to better health has been bumpy, to say the least. I got sick with M.E. and POTS after a virus in 2014, and by 2017 I was back to running and pretty much recovered.
Then life, stress, mould, and perimenopause hit — and I nosedived.
Two and a half years ago, I relapsed and was bedbound again.
So I get it. I know what it takes to put your big pants on and say: “Right — let’s go again,” for the five-millionth time.
It takes guts.
It takes resilience.
It takes strength.
And it takes energy.
My thoughts were…. What’s the point in going through all this if I can’t use it for good?
To help someone else shorten the bloody horrendousness of their own path to better health.
That’s why I’m here.
To share what’s worked for me and all the new things I’m experimenting with to continue to optimise my health. To be honest about what hasn’t (new mattress anyone?! 😉) To try new things, keep learning, and never give up.
I’m so happy to have you here. 💚
Big love
Jo
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