#71. The 1 Word Hiding Every Emotional Pattern Fueling Your Chronic Illness (MINI)

If someone asked how you’re feeling right now, would your answer be “stressed”?

For women with chronic illness and autoimmune disease, that one word is often covering dread, loneliness, resentment and disappointment, and each of those needs something different from you. In this mini, I share what a UCLA brain-scan study found happens when you put a feeling into words.

In this mini, you’ll discover:

• Why “stressed” is covering up a lot of very different feelings
• What happened in the brain when people named their emotions in a 2007 UCLA study
• One question to ask yourself every time you say “I’m so stressed”

My FREE Emotional Root Prompt shows you the emotions and patterns that may be fueling your physical symptoms, so you’re not starting from a blank page. CLICK HERE.

Research discussed: Putting feelings into words: affect labeling disrupts amygdala activity in response to affective stimuli (Lieberman et al., Psychological Science, 2007). PMID: 17576282

For women navigating Chronic Illness, Autoimmune Disease, IBS, Digestive Disorders, Migraines, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Pain, PCOS, and Endometriosis.