A Gluten Free Podcast
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A Gluten Free Podcast
How To Grieve Gluten & Process the Emotions of a Coeliac Disease Diagnosis
A Gluten Free Podcast
Episode 203
Today we'll be discussing why it's important to grieve gluten, process the emotions of a coeliac disease diagnosis and move forward in your gluten free life. A coeliac disease diagnosis and gluten free life can be overwhelming. It can be tricky and hard. But it's also important to acknowledge those feelings, grieve our former life pre-coeliac disease diagnosis and then move forward with our new gluten free life.
What we'll cover:
* Reflecting on last week's episode with Joanna Wynne
* Chatting to Jo and various others in the community lately with grieving the life pre-coeliac disease diagnosis, the emotions
* Why it's important to feel the emotions of a coeliac disease diagnosis
* Story of a recent chat I had with a man navigating coeliac disease himself and soon to navigate it with his daughter as well
* Importance of a strong support network around you when living with coeliac disease and navigating gluten free life
* Why it's important to grieve your former life pre-coeliac disease and the ability to eat gluten
* Coming to terms with coeliac disease and the gluten free diet one day at a time
* Learning and using the resources around you in the gluten free community
* My own experience of grieving gluten and my life pre-coeliac diagnosis
* My coeliac disease symptoms before my diagnosis
* Why I didn't grieve gluten like I hear a lot of people do
* Questions for you in your own coeliac and gluten free journey
* Sneak peek into next week's guest episode
Links
Episode with Joanna Wynne, founder of The Coeliac Connection
How Coeliac Disease Impacts Our Friends & Family
Belinda Whelan guest blog post - The 5 Stages of Grieving Gluten After a Coeliac Disease Diagnosis
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