04/06/2025
Living with chronic symptoms can be frustrating, exhausting, and deeply disheartening. When your body feels unpredictable or uncooperative, it’s easy to internalize the idea that something is wrong with you—that you're malfunctioning or broken. This can lead to a spiral of helplessness, hopelessness and disconnection.
But what if we choose to reframe symptoms not as failure—but rather as signals, information, attempts at protection... ?
Our bodies hold immense intelligence. They speak in the language of sensation, posture, breath, and rhythm—especially when words aren’t enough. Pain, fatigue, tension, or anxiety can all be ways your body is asking for care, boundaries, rest, or presence. This doesn't mean the symptom is your fault. It means there's a relationship here worth tending to.
These gentle questions are an invitation to get curious, not to fix. To be in conversation, not in control. They help create a pause between the discomfort and the story about it. That pause can be a place of possibility—a moment where you choose to listen, to offer kindness, or to reach for support.
Warmest, Louise