What Happens When Your Health is Taken Away

In this episode, I share a personal story about dealing with a flare-up of my autoimmune condition, Ulcerative Colitis.

Despite being in great physical shape from regular training, my health was suddenly taken away, leaving me in severe pain, weakness and a dark mental state. I discuss the importance of radical acceptance, self-compassion and listening to your body's needs during such challenging times.

While nothing lasts forever, having processes to get through the lows is crucial.

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Key Learnings:

1) Don't buy into the hype that you can be "bulletproof" - everyone can experience setbacks with their health or circumstances beyond their control.

2) When your health is compromised, practice radical acceptance rather than resistance, which only causes more suffering.

3) Be self-compassionate. As a man, I've struggled with feelings of weakness and shame, but self-kindness is vital.

4) Truly listen to your body's signals and intuition about what it needs, whether it's rest, gentle foods, etc.

5) Appreciate that difficulties are cyclical and temporary - "nothing lasts forever" is an empowering perspective.

Show Notes:

0:00 - 2:00 Intro and background on being in great physical shape initially

2:00 - 5:00 Health crash from ulcerative colitis flare-up and dark mental state

5:00 - 7:00 Importance of acceptance over resistance, self-compassion

7:00 - 9:00 Listening to the body's needs, cycles of health/challenges

9:00 - 10:00 Currently feeling better, offer to connect on autoimmune issues