Notes on how to manage an initial diagnosis

Getting diagnosed can be hard to digest- this is how I did it

MY HEALING JOURNEY

3/18/2026

Notes on how to manage an initial medical diagnosis

If you were just diagnosed with Gastritis, inflammation in the body or any chronic/non-disease, and want change your life naturally, or alleviate the constant pain you are in once and for all- if you want to take my advice, as someone who’s been on a natural healing journey for nearly six months, than there are steps I took along the way, so you can copy me and see the positive change that can happen in your life within a year or less.

These are the steps I can recall taking on this healing journey:

-After the diagnosis, I first had to accept my condition( although accepting is a process I’m still working on, and doesn't happen overnight). I went to see a naturopath, who helped me set my diet and lifestyle right so that the environment in my body provides optimal conditions for healing.

This part was the simple one. The harder part of the journey has been following this new lifestyle and diet so I can actually heal, and not cheat myself, thinking no one sees me, so it must be okay not to follow the recommendations.

You're going to notice throughout your healing journey that finding excuses is the easiest way to get off track, and to resist this urge with all your might, with the rational reason that this identity change is what will heal you in the long term, so it's not worth the short-term pleasure, which follows suffering and an increased burning feeling in the stomach.

I've noticed, a few months into my healing journey that this increased burning feeling every time I eat in excess/ every time I eat something that irritates me alone to be reason enough not to do it, and not even to be tempted to do it knowing the pain I'm going to be in after; moreover, the body knows- it gives me a signal to avoid those certain foods for these reasons.

All this isn't to say you're not going to have crises; I've had crises quite a few times through the journey, when I would indulge in food that harms me until I was sick to my stomach and in so much pain that I couldn't eat anymore, and then I would stop.

To tell you the truth, every time after I have a crisis like this, I know how painful it is to eat this amount of a certain kind of food I shouldn't, and I'm aware that cheating myself by getting off track doesn't help in solving anything and will cause me to be in more unnecessary pain.

This is not to say I don't have crises anymore- I still have them every once in a while- and that's okay.

You're going to need, if you're brave enough, to realize and accept the fact that this process is going to be filled with ups and downs of this sort, because- at the end of the day, I've come to understand that this journey is just the entry ticket to a healthy, body-and-mind nourishing lifestyle, and that it's for the long term, and that for us to have balance in it- there will be times we go astray; what matters is even when those times come we remember to forgive ourselves and go back to our regular routine, the one that’s optimal for us.

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