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Have you ever felt like health is an endless puzzle—where every piece you find adds more confusion instead of clarity? Each step forward feels like two steps back, leaving you stuck in a cycle of frustration. I’ve been there, too, in the endless negative loop created by a faulty health story.
When you’re in this place, it’s easy to feel like a victim—like your body has failed you and no system marketed to “fix” you ever works. This mindset traps us in a cycle of confusion and defeat, where problems seem bigger than solutions, and health feels out of reach.
I don’t want to dramatize this. In fact, this is about stepping away from the drama of health and looking at it through a clearer lens. I understand what it’s like to feel stuck and want health but never quite achieve it.
What I didn’t realize then—and wouldn’t have chosen to see—was how much my beliefs and the stories I told myself shaped the outcomes I experienced.
Here’s the hard truth: many of the struggles we face in health aren’t just real problems—they’re amplified by the stories we believe.
“Drama” stories we’ve created about health.
Take menopause, for example. While I haven’t experienced it yet, I’ve seen the narrative built around it. It’s described as a miserable, almost dreaded season of life filled with hot flashes, night sweats, weight gain, and a loss of energy, libido, and drive. It’s painted as the beginning of the end—a time when a woman loses her vitality and purpose.
The same is true for PMS, pregnancy, or even weight loss. These experiences come with stories that focus on pain, struggle, and deprivation. For example:
- PMS is portrayed as inevitable misery.
- Pregnancy is a checklist of symptoms and discomforts.
- Weight loss is framed as an impossible task, requiring you to give up all joy in life.
These stories become self-fulfilling. When we expect misery, we often create it.
But here’s the good news: just because it’s someone else’s story doesn’t mean it has to be yours.
Stop dramatizing health: Rewrite the Narrative
What if health wasn’t a mountain to climb, full of endless problems? What if health was less about what problems you are experiencing and more about building health that creates vitality, joy, and balance?
Health is full of problems only because we’ve believed that’s what it is, not because that is the reality. The truth is that your body will experience symptoms. However, not every symptom needs a diagnosis; most are just reminders, calls to action, or actions to do something different.
When you see outside of health as a problem, you can begin to see a larger picture. You can start to shift the story from one of self-misery to one of self-healing. In the process, you can see the good more than the bad.
Imagine if the story was:
- Celebrating menopause as a time of empowerment and transformation.
- Pregnancy was a beautiful, healing, creative, and peaceful experience.
- Weight loss happened naturally, without obsession or deprivation.
These stories exist, but we rarely hear them. Instead, we focus so much on the problems that we miss the solutions. We become masters of misery, stuck in the “why” instead of energizing the “how.” But it doesn’t have to stay that way. The way out is to rewrite the narrative and shift the story.
Even if that means borrowing someone else’s story as a reminder that not all stories are doom and gloom but that health is not only possible but it’s inside of you. That healing isn’t a chase. It’s a choice. The act of living health is not all-consuming but life-giving.
But you have to shift your perspective.
How To Shift Your Perspective
Your body is always working to heal and thrive. The key is to support it, not fight it. Here’s how:
- Stop viewing health as something that needs fixing and start understanding it as expanding. Instead of asking, “What’s wrong with me?” ask, “What does my body need today?”
- Slow down. Healing happens at the speed of your body. Rushing creates an imbalance, but patience fosters growth.
- Focus on living, not just healing. Health isn’t the absence of symptoms; it’s the presence of energy and joy.
The Problem Is Rarely the Problem
Not every discomfort needs fixing. And not every problem needs a diagnosis. Sometimes, the healthiest choice is acceptance and action—choosing to focus your energy on the solution instead of obsessing over the problem.
When we shift our perspective and rewrite the story of health, we step into our power—not just to heal ourselves but to inspire a better way for others. These stories of hope and healing are worth sharing. They remind us that health isn’t about perfection or fear but about resilience, joy, and a deep connection to life.
This week on the podcast, I explore the mindset shifts that transformed my health journey and how they can transform yours, too. Listen now, and start rewriting your health story today.
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