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#13. Anticipating Your Next Flare Is More Damaging Than Your Chronic Symptoms — And You're Doing It Right Now
Women navigating chronic illness and autoimmune illness face unpredictable flare ups.
A research study from the University College London found something that changes everything we know about the impact of this unpredictability on the body.
In this episode, you'll discover:
Why uncertainty about your symptoms may be doing more damage than the symptoms themselves
How the brain's response to unpredictability keeps the body in a chronic stress state it cannot switch off
One practical shift that begins to change your relationship with uncertainty — even before the symptoms change
If you're not…
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