Self Care is Self Love

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Originally Posted by Shivani Devi

Beautiful post, SkyFeather!

Over the last few years, I have developed many food allergies and intolerances and I know, by listening to my body, that I just can't digest certain foods like I used to...dairy products, gluten, legumes and sucrose being the main culprits.

However, I have been willingly ignoring this just so I can eat things 'everybody else does' and then wonder why I am always bloated up like a balloon, full of gas...having pain in my stomach and under my rib cage, having my arthritis, GERD, IBS and fibromyalgia flare up and basically getting around like a 'bear with a sore head' always.

Today, after a week of unrelenting bloating and pain I bit the bullet...threw out all my bread and biscuits, my full cream milk and cheese, my tins of beans, my cruciferous vegetables and went to the store, replacing it all with brown rice and oats, organic soy milk, creamed corn, LSA and rye bread...along with litres of alkaline water, kale powder, manuka honey, apple cider vinegar (with the mother) and peppermint and lemon thyme organic tea.

I've also got out all of my guided meditation CD's...replaced my soap-based body wash for a soap free one...replaced my washing powder with a sensitive one for babies and even got one of those 'baby cups' with small holes in the top, so I don't swallow too much air down when I drink.

Self-love entails changing circumstances after realising that if I do nothing, I am just going to keep on suffering the same way, day in and day out.

I had no idea you had food allergies. I wrote a post on your thread about gluten and here you already knew.