I want to ask about the women in your family.

Your mother. Your grandmother. Your aunts.

Did any of them have similar symptoms to yours?

And if they did...

Were they women who found it easy to express what they felt?

Or were they women who held things together quietly?

Who managed. Who coped. Who got on with it.

I ask because the pattern I see most often in women with chronic IBS and migraines...

Didn't start with them.

It started a generation or two back.

And understanding that changes everything about how we approach healing it.

Tell me what you notice when you think about the women who came before you.