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#6. Why Women With Chronic Illness Struggle to Let Go — And How Holding On Is Keeping You Sick (MINI)
Many women living with chronic illness and autoimmune illness know they need to “let go” of the past. But what most people don’t realize is that letting go doesn’t usually happen on its own.
For many women, the missing piece is detachment.
When the mind keeps returning to something that happened in the past, it often treats the memory like a problem that still needs to be solved. The conversation gets replayed. The situation gets analyzed. And the body reacts as if the moment is happening again.
Learning detachment helps interrupt that cycle and bring the mind back to the present moment.
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