Notes on how to deal with a medical diagnosis

These are the steps I can recall taking on this healing journey:

-After I was diagnosed I firstly had to accept my condition( although accepting is a process I’m still working on, and doesn't happen overnight), then I went to see a naturopath, who has helped me set my diet and lifestyle right for optimal healing conditions.

This part was the easy one. The hard part of the journey has been following this new lifestyle and diet so I can actually heal, and not cheat myself, thinking no one sees me so it must be okay to not follow the recommendations.

You're going to notice throughout your healing journey that finding excuses is the easiest way to get off track, and to resist this urge with all your might, with the rational reason that this identity change is what will heal you in the long term, so it's not worth the short-term pleasure, which follows suffering and a burning feeling in your stomach.

I've noticed, a few months into my healing journey that this increased burning feeling every time I eat in excess/ every time I eat something that irritates me alone to be reason enough to not do it, and to not even be tempted to do it knowing the pain I'm going to be in after.

All this isn't to say you're not going to have crises; I've had crises quite a few times though the healing journey, when I would indulge in food that harms me until I was sick and in so much pain that I couldn't eat anymore, and then I would stop.

To tell you the truth, I've realized that, after every time I had a crisis like this, I knew how much eating this amount of a certain kind of food I shouldn't, and cheating myself by getting off track doesn't help in solving anything and just causes me to be in unnecessary pain.

This is not to say I don't have crises anymore- I still have them every once in a while- and that's okay.

You're going to need, if you're brave enough, to realize that this process is going to be filled with ups and downs of this sort, and accept this fact, because- at the end of the day, I've come to understand that this journey is just the entry ticket to a healthy, body-and-mind nourishing lifestyle, and that it's for the long term, and that for us to have balance in it- there will be times we go astray; what matters is even when those times come remember to forgive ourselves and go back to our regular routine, the one that’s optimal for us.

If you were just diagnosed with Gastritis, inflammation in the body or any kind of chronic disease/non-disease, and want change your life naturally, or alleviate the constant pain you are in once and for all- if you want to take my advice, as someone who’s been on a natural healing journey for nearly six months, than there are steps I took along the way, so you can just copy me and see the positive change that can happen in your life within just a year or less.