23/06/2026
Twice in the last few months I have seen specialists and other healthcare professionals and the conversation around my rheumatoid arthritis is mostly about “how awful the condition it is, how unlucky I am and the horrible statistics”
While some of these things are true, they are not the whole story and not how I want to frame it.
Sitting in the aweful and the unluckily and the sh*tty feelings also has a huge impact on my mood, which directly makes me less resilient and inevitably makes my RA worse.
Yes having RA changes your life, it can be difficult and challenging…. Buuut it can also teach you things like:
How important it is to eat nourishing food
How to say no to preserve your physical and social battery
Why it’s important to slow down to look after your nervous system.
I have a feeling that these are lessons that I needed to learn at some point in my life and if it wasn’t RA it would have been something else.
I also probably wouldn’t have become a naturopath if I wasn’t diagnosed with RA.
