Embracing my CHRONIC ILLNESS with SLOW LIVING: Ep.3 Lessons Mexico taught me! 

A huge benefit of slow living is having the time to notice ourselves (and others around us).

It warms my heart to know that you are taking care of yourself!

You are so right, with all the stress of daily living and meeting everyone’s needs we often forget to listen to our bodies warning signs

Yes, I too suffer from chronic illness that is mostly 80% under control now due to lifestyle and diet changes and living in Mexico has been pivotal in my healing. I encourage you to just keep experimenting with different things to tweak your health. That's what I had to do. Finally I settled on an elimination diet to determine foods I was strongly reacting to and slowly working myself into an intermittent fasting eating schedule. The IF really keeps the inflammation at bay for me but I know everyone is different. I'm 65 btw, and was also a single parent of one (he just turned 45 and he travels with me). I started having chronic health issues as a child but 2 times during my adulthood (late 30s and late 50s) they flared up horribly again and I was barely functional for several years until I got it all back under control. I operate at about 60-80% of the energy levels I used to and frequently require an afternoon nap/rest but am grateful every day for the slower pace in central Mexico (Oaxaca right now).

This video was recommended to me at the perfect time! I've been considering romanticizing my days as someone with chronic illness, embracing the slow mornings, that many people wish they had time for. Of course I don't think it'll be easy, I'm forced to not have a job and give up on my dreams because my body can't handle it, but people often say to us that they wish they could take their time in the morning, or stay home watching their favourite shows instead of working, so instead of focusing on my pain levels, or how much I wish I could be working towards my once dreamed of doctorate, I want to be thankful that I can take my time to do my daily tasks, or on bad days when I can't even get out of bed, enjoy the shows I'm watching. I'm hoping it'll make me feel better mentally and that I'll complain less to my husband who puts up with a lot of that from me. So thank you for sharing this, it made me feel less like I'm weird for wanting to romanticize my life ❤

Hola hermosa... that's one of the beauties I will say in living in Mexico is having the ability to slow down and not do the rat race as in the US. I am finally on the healing side of my eczema. Not only did I have to change the foods that I ate and stop all alcohol, caffeine, and sugar but it pushed me to prioritize myself above anything else. It's crazy that we tend to put ourselves last 🥺. I also canceled last-minute plans with friends if I felt sick or when my eczema flared up so bad I could barely do anything bc I was scratching or doing something to soothe myself but friends understood. sending l-💝❤‍🩹💜🙏

Breathing is good 👍

I am so glad that you are taking care of yourself! It is more important now than ever since you are moving back to the U.S. soon. I hope that you will keep the busyness out of your life with slow living so that you may continue to listen to your body and remain healthy.

This was very refreshing, i seem to have those around me who for some unknown reason have to show off, always be richer, cleverer, smarter and so on and I do not know why they are like that, i seem to have so much less, so much hurt and pain at times and I wonder why, but richness and so on comes in may forms and you certainly have learnt so much, wisdom which is better than most things, so thank you for shairng and seeing the good in things you have more than most in all your difficulties and hardships.

So happy you are taking care of yourself! 😻

Girl check out simplify your healing podcast. Will be super helpful for you.

waww lovely!

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