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Ep 3: When the Path Falls Away - Living Well with Food Hypersensitivity

Conditioned Food Sensitivity

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Exploring Resilience in Dealing with Food Sensitivities

This chapter explores the challenges individuals with food sensitivities face, emphasizing the need to build resilience to navigate uncertainty. Titled 'When the Path Falls Away,' it symbolizes the risks involved in managing food allergies or intolerances and the importance of drawing on past experiences to cope.

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Speaker 2
We always kind of look at what are the risk factors for either developing physically driven sensitivities or say for falling into the food avoidance and sensitivity trap. But to my knowledge now I don't look at every research paper out there but I don't think I've ever seen anything like your research where it's looking at what helps people to build resiliency. So the research is fantastic and I wanted to ask when the path falls away that really resonated with me. So what brought you to including that in the
Speaker 1
title? Well thanks for your introduction Wendy. It's one of those things the title came to me from a comment that a participant told me when she was telling me her story about living with her for her it was a food allergy. And she said you know sometimes she feels like she's on this narrow path between two edges and to me that was such a powerful picture of life with a food intolerance or a food allergy. This idea that life can be so uncertain that you're unsure of how to tread the everyday things of life and you might fall one way or the other and that falling you know has that image of high risk. Like you're not just falling into a little bit of trouble. It's like dramatic trouble in her mind anyway. And that resonated with me as well because I developed food sensitivities in my 20s and I really had that feeling like you know what's going to happen to my life if I don't even actually know what's happening and I can't deal or I can't you know have a treatment for it. It's one of those things where life becomes very uncertain and that's that was like something that most of the participants they talked about that that uncertainty like what if I can't go to school because you know some days I can't even get out of bed and my like those kinds of stories about you know what am I going to be able to do with my life if I don't know what's happening. Sort of those medically unexplained symptoms that some people find themselves in and they're trying to find answers and they wonder you know is it food that causes this and so I heard that a lot and so that image of a path that falls away that that metaphor is something I thought about a lot and so I put it into the title and I kind of I see it as a way of thinking about the stories that people have with their food sensitivities that you know it's almost like you're going along and everything's just fine and this event happens and it's like it's like a landfall a landslide that goes across the path and you have to find a way to navigate it and come to a place where you can hopefully broaden that path so it doesn't feel like this narrow way between two edges like it feels like there's some space there and I have some safety here and and I think earlier on you talked about resilience. I really see some of like when the people told me their stories I could see where when they talked about you know how they're living well with their food sensitivity now they also told stories about how they came through other events in their life and built that resilience and found ways of living with uncertainty so yeah definitely this idea that food sensitivities food allergies and tolerances they bring definite uncertainty and if you have experiences building resilience and working with uncertainty from the past you can draw on that but for some people it's it's kind of the event in their life where they did learn how to live with uncertainty and how to build resilience and and and actually even use that for other things that were happening in their life so there's an overall kind of working towards resilience and that also positively impacting their life when they're dealing with all they we have to say that life is really uncertain and you only have to you know look in the news to know that or to hear your neighbor tell a story about what's happening in their life now that is the nature of life that life is uncertain and so it was really it was just interesting to hear how even though people went through all of this with their food sensitivity that was actually something that they could see some of the benefits of it that it gave them tools for even dealing with other other things that were going on in their life.

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