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Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women
Exploring the emotional patterns linked to chronic illness and autoimmune disease in women through holistic healing and the mind-body connection.
Why do capable, driven women end up chronically sick?
In Why You Got Sick, Tecla Di Francesco — Certified Mind-Body Practitioner and Certified Holistic Life Coach — examines the hidden emotional patterns that precede many chronic conditions in women, and the physical consequences when they remain unaddressed.
From chronic illness and autoimmune…
Episodes
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#67. One Word You Say About Your Chronic Illness Every Day That Makes Healing Harder (MINI)
My fibro. My Hashimoto's. My endo. My flare. If you live with chronic illness, you've probably said some version of this a hundred times this week without…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#66. How Chronic Illness Changes Your Relationship & Why Being Treated Like a Patient Keeps You Flaring
Somewhere between the diagnosis and now, your partner stopped being your partner and became your carer. They drive you to the appointments, take the heavy bags…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#65. Chronic Illness Has You Cancelling Trips Before The Car Is Even Packed & Your Family Keeps Going Without You (MINI)
Saying yes to a family trip shouldn't take a week of planning for everything that could go wrong. When you live with chronic illness or autoimmune illness, a…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#64. You've Lived Through Your Next Chronic Illness Flare 100 Times Before It Happens & Your Body Pays For Every One
Every time you picture a flare before it happens, your brain counts it as practice. If you live with chronic illness or autoimmune illness, you've likely…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#63. The Anger You've Swallowed for Years Is Fueling Your Chronic Illness & You Can Release It With Me LIVE
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Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#62. Trying To Shut Down Worst-Case Scenarios About Your Chronic Illness Will Never Make Them Stop (MINI)
The worst-case thoughts about your health arrive before you can catch them and no amount of trying to shut them down makes them stop… That is not a failing on…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#61. 95% Of Chronic Illness Is Caused Or Worsened By Emotional Stress & You Keep Focusing On The Body
For years I treated my chronic illness the way you probably are right now. The protocols, the supplements, the specialists, the diets. It all helped, and none…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#60. Your Chronic Illness Is Only Half A Body Problem & That's Why The “Right” Protocol Never Fully Works (MINI)
You've quietly decided that the reason you're not better yet is that you haven't found the right thing. The right protocol, the right diet, the right…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#59. Your Body Stops Showing Up For A Life You Don't Truly Want & Chronic Illness Is One Way It Pushes Back When You Won’t
For years you built a life that looked right from the outside and felt wrong from the inside — and when your body finally broke down, you never once connected…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#58. Chronic Illness Took Over As The Main Character Of Your Life & You're Slowly Losing Yourself To It (MINI)
While everyone around you chases a dream, you're chasing a normal day in your own body. And somewhere in that, your chronic illness slowly took over as the…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#57. You Keep Avoiding Things That Would Help Heal Your Chronic Illness & It’s Not A Discipline Problem
You want to heal your chronic illness more than anything. So why do you keep putting off the very things you know would help? If you live with an autoimmune…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#56. You Can Handle The Appointment About Your Chronic Illness — It's The 40 Mins Before That You Dread Most (MINI)
You can handle a doctor's appointment. It's the forty minutes beforehand that take you out… For women with chronic illness and autoimmune disease, this is one…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#55. You've Decided Your Chronic Illness Will Only Get Worse & That Prediction Is Doing Real Damage To Your Body
“It's only going to get worse.” If you live with chronic illness, you've probably decided this about your body, and you've been calling it realism... But this…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#54. All The Researching You Do To Heal Your Chronic Illness Takes A Toll on Your Body (MINI)
You've spent years learning everything there is to know about your chronic illness. The books, the podcasts, the research. And somewhere in there, you started…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#53. The Years You Spent Fighting For Your Chronic Illness Diagnosis Are Causing Conflict & Blocking Healing
You knew something was wrong with your body long before anyone found it. Months, sometimes years, of being the only one who kept taking your chronic illness…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#52. You Trigger a Chronic Illness Flare Every Sunday By Dreading a Week That Hasn't Even Happened Yet (MINI)
For women with chronic illness, the dread that builds ahead of a hard week can cost you more than the week itself. You spend Sunday running the work, the…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#51. You're Terrified of the One Thing You Want Most and It's Fueling Your Chronic Illness
Being symptom-free is the whole goal. And for a lot of women with chronic illness, it's also the most uncomfortable place to be. When your symptoms finally…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#50. You Stopped Believing You Could Heal Chronic Illness and Your Body Knows It (MINI)
What if the belief you're holding about your own future is the very thing keeping you from healing? For a lot of women with chronic illness, hope feels almost…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#49. Why Most Women Who Take Time Off to Heal Chronic Illness Won’t Actually Get Better
Taking time off to heal was supposed to be the thing that finally worked. So why do you feel exactly the same, or worse? Here's what nobody tells women with…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#48. Nobody Is Coming To Heal Your Chronic Illness For You – And Every Day You Wait, There’s a Cost (MINI)
You've been waiting for the right doctor, the right protocol, the right person to finally fix you. What if the problem was never that you haven't found them…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#47. Break an Emotional Pattern that’s Fueling Your Chronic Illness with Me (in 10 Mins)
There's a habit you can’t break even though you know it's not good for you, and you've decided that makes you undisciplined. It doesn't… Every behavior you…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#46. You're Punishing Yourself for the One Feeling That Could Change How You Live With Chronic Illness (MINI)
That flash of feeling you get when someone else's life looks easier than yours has a name, and it probably isn't the one you think. For women with chronic…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#45: The Weight of Everyone Else's Problems Is Secretly Fueling Your Chronic Illness
Look at what you're worried about today and how much of it is technically someone else's to deal with… Your partner's stress. Your sister's bad decision. The…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#44. This is The Driver of Chronic Illness That No Diet or Protocol Will Ever Reach (MINI)
What if the reason your healing has stalled has almost nothing to do with your food, your gut or your hormones? For women with chronic illness, an estimated…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#43. You Think You're Remembering the Past. Your Body Is Reliving It. And Every Replay Fuels Chronic Illness.
Why does your mind keep dragging you back to a moment from your past you can't change, and what is it doing to your body? For women with chronic illness, this…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#42. "I'm So Tired." "My Body Hates Me." You Say These Without Thinking and Each One Feeds Your Chronic Illness (MINI)
The way women with chronic illness talk about their bodies out loud is quietly reinforcing the emotional patterns underneath their symptoms and it feels like…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#41. 95% of Your Thoughts Are Subconscious & Right Now They're Impacting How Easily You Can Heal from Chronic Illness
How many times have you decided you were going to heal? Really decided. Made the plan, committed with everything you had, followed through with real…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#40. Watching Someone Else Heal Chronic Illness Faster Than You Has a Hidden Cost (MINI)
Why does someone else's recovery sometimes leave you feeling worse? If you live with chronic illness, you've probably felt it without ever questioning it. It…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#39. Chasing the Word 'Healed' Is Tightening the Grip Your Chronic Illness Has on Your Body
What does "healed" actually mean to you and what if the version you're waiting for is one no doctor is ever going to hand you? So many women with…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#38. You Were Told Gratitude Would Heal You — But It Might Be Making Your Chronic Illness Worse (MINI)
Here's a question no one in the wellness world wants you to ask - what if your gratitude practice is making you feel worse? For women with chronic illness…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#37. They Still See the Person You Used to Be — and Proving You’ve “Changed” Is Feeding Your Chronic Illness
You changed. They kept the old version of you anyway. Maybe it was a season you're not proud of, a decision you made with what little you had at the time, or a…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#36. This Habit Is Quietly Burning the Energy You Need to Heal Chronic Illness — Here’s Exactly How to Stop (MINI)
You were asked a simple question, and somehow you ended up three reasons deep in an explanation no one wanted. For women with chronic illness, that reflex is…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#35. Two Hidden Survival Responses Are Driving Your Chronic Illness Flare-Ups — And This Is Why You Can't See Them
Some of the most seemingly laid-back, relaxed women are the ones whose bodies are working the hardest to feel safe. If you live with chronic illness, the…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#34. The Identity Work The Version of You With Chronic Illness Needs Isn't Big Or Scary — But You Keep Avoiding It (MINI)
You remember a criticism from years ago word for word, but the moment someone compliments you, you swat it away. This mini is about the reflex underneath that…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#33. A War Is Going On Inside You That Started Long Before Chronic Illness — And You're Paying the Price Every Day
What if the way you see your body is one of the reasons it cannot heal? Not how you feed it. Not how you rest it. How you see it. Most women with chronic…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#32. The Chronic Illness Burnout Women Know Too Well — and Why No Amount of Rest Actually Helps (MINI)
You've slept, you've rested, you've cleared the weekend to do nothing, and the exhaustion is still sitting there waiting for you on Monday. If you're a woman…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#31. You'll Never Heal Your Chronic Illness Until You See the One Thing You Do for Everyone but Yourself
You're the one everyone leans on. The one who reads the room, holds it all together, always knows the right thing to say. You are surrounded by people who love…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#30. You Say This Sentence Every Day & It Puts Your Real Life on Hold and Keeps Chronic Illness in Control (MINI)
When I'm better, I'll travel. When I'm better, I'll take that class. When I'm better, I'll finally say yes. If you live with chronic illness, you've probably…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#29. You're Grieving the Woman You Were Before Chronic Illness — And Refusing to Let Go Keeps You Sick
You spend a lot of time wishing you could go back to who you were before chronic illness. This episode is going to challenge that wish completely. Because the…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#28. Your Chronic Illness Flares the Moment You Finally Rest And It Won't Stop Until You Hear This (MINI)
Women with chronic illness and autoimmune disease know this pattern too well. Your symptoms have been manageable, you have been coexisting with your flare ups…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#27. Billions Spent on Gut-Brain Axis Research and Women with Digestive Problems Are Still Being Told It's Food
The gut-brain axis is one of the most researched areas in modern science and one of the most ignored in chronic illness treatment. If you have been eliminating…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#26. Health Anxiety Is Making Your Chronic Illness Worse Every Day & You Are Feeding It (MINI)
Anxiety and chronic illness are rarely talked about together and almost never in the way that actually matters. Because the anxiety most women with chronic…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#25. The Secret Emotional Pattern Sabotaging Your Chronic Illness Healing Right Now — And You Think It's Helping
What if the discipline, the drive and the work ethic that made you successful at everything else in your life is the reason your chronic illness is not getting…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#24. Nervous System Regulation Won’t Help You Heal Chronic Illness Unless You Also Do THIS (MINI)
Nervous system healing is one of the most talked about topics in chronic illness right now… But there is something nobody is saying about why regulation alone…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#23. Your Chronic Fatigue Has Nothing to Do With Your Sleep — And That's Why Nothing You've Tried Is Working
Have you tried everything for your chronic fatigue and exhaustion (the sleep, the supplements, the rest) and nothing is actually working? For women with…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#22. Four Questions You Have to Ask Before Spending Another Dollar on Holistic Healing for Chronic Illness (MINI)
Holistic healing is one of the most searched terms in chronic illness. But most women have never been told what it actually means — or why everything they have…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#21. Dismissing Energy Healing as Woo Is Costing You — Here's the Science Women with Chronic Illness Need to Know
Energy healing and chronic illness are more connected than most women have ever been told. And it has nothing to do with crystals or candles — it has…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#20. The Harder You Try to Heal Your Chronic Illness, the More You Need to Practice Detachment — And You Need to Start Now (MINI)
Detachment and chronic illness are not two things most women put together. But the grip most women have on getting better may be one of the things keeping them…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#19. Being Highly Sensitive and Empathetic Is Making Your Chronic Illness Worse Every Single Day – How to Change It Now
If you are a highly sensitive woman or an empath with autoimmune or chronic illness, this episode is going to change how you understand your symptoms. Most…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#18. Your Brain Body Connection Doesn't Work How You Think — Your Chronic Illness Is Proof of What You're Missing (MINI)
The brain body connection is not a wellness concept — it is a biological communication system. And for women with chronic illness and autoimmune disease…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#17. The Emotional Pattern Driving PCOS and Endometriosis That Most Women Are Stuck In Right Now Without Knowing It
If you have endometriosis or PCOS, this episode is directly for you. And if your diagnosis is something else (chronic illness, autoimmune disease…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#16. Rewire Your Brain for Healing Chronic Illness and Autoimmune Disease With These 5 Phrases — Don't Wait (MINI)
Your brain has been listening to every thought you've had about your body since the day chronic illness or autoimmune disease entered your life. And those…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#15. I Did the Most Restrictive Elimination Diet for 45 Days and My Chronic Illness Got Worse — Listen If Your Protocol Isn't Working
After weeks on the Autoimmune Protocol Diet (AIP), my flareups were the worst they’ve ever been. Three days after I stopped - almost completely cleared. This…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#14. Chronic Illness and Autoimmune Disease Have Become Your Identity — And It's Blocking Your Healing (MINI)
At some point chronic illness and autoimmune illness stops being something you have. For most women, it becomes something you are. And that shift — quiet…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#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…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#12. Constantly Chasing the Next Thing to Heal Your Chronic Illness or Autoimmune Disease? It's Costing You This (MINI)
Women with chronic illness and autoimmune illness have spent hundreds of dollars chasing the next appointment, the next specialist, the next protocol. And…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#11. Perfectionism Keeps Women with Chronic Illness and Autoimmune Disease Flaring — You Need to Hear Why
For women with chronic illness and autoimmune illness, perfectionism is rarely just a personality trait. It is an emotional pattern with a direct physiological…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#10. The Psychological Pattern Most Women with Chronic Illness and Autoimmune Disease Don't Know Is Driving Their Symptoms (MINI)
Before the chronic or autoimmune illness diagnosis. Before the chronic pain. Before the flare-ups. There was a belief (installed early, rarely questioned) that…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#9. Your Chronic Pain Has an Emotional Root & Your Doctors Aren't Telling You — It's Costing You Daily
Chronic pain is the most common symptom I see across chronic illness and autoimmune illness in women. And most women have tried everything to fix it physically…
Why You Got Sick: How Emotion Drives Chronic Illness & Healing in Women#8. Your Constant Sense of Urgency Is Making Your Chronic Illness and Autoimmune Disease Worse — Stop It Now (MINI)
Chronic illness, autoimmune illness and emotional patterns are shaped by how the brain responds to pressure, urgency and internal signals. Many women…