21/02/2026
Flare ups are NOT failures…⬇️
I think one of the biggest misconceptions about starting a healing journey is that once you decide to change things, whether that’s reducing inflammation, bloating, acne or managing endometriosis symptoms like I have, everything is supposed to just improve day by day until you reach this magical point of being “healed.”
I really wish it worked like that, but it doesn’t.
The reality is a lot less linear. It’s not worse, it’s just more up and down than people expect.
When you’re in the discovery phase and figuring out what actually works for your body, there’s always going to be trial and error. You try something, you adjust, you learn. And sometimes, even when you’re doing “everything right,” you still get a flare up. That doesn’t mean you’ve undone all your progress, it just means you’re still in the process.
The problem is that if you see every flare up as a failure, it’s so easy to spiral. You feel like you’ve messed it all up, you get frustrated, and that’s usually when people completely give up and go back to square one.
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