2025 meet 2026, the year for positive steps forward (hopefully!)

So here we are! 2026! Feels like 2025 was a 'blink and you'll miss it, but it also felt like a big year in many ways. Started the year with a new diagnosis of 'Gut Brain Disconnect' (GBD) ringing in my ears and not really understanding it; ending the year with a much better understanding, a deeper diagnosis under the GBD umbrella (of centrally mediated abdominal pain syndrome) and with a blog dedicated to my ongoing recovery - whilst also trying to spread and increase the awareness around GBD. So here's hoping 2026 is the year for major change and getting back to me!
There's a lot of different treatments on my horizons, including the start of my gut-lead hypnotherapy in February, which I'm really looking forward to and (fingers crossed) seeing the positive impact it will have. I will, of course , be blogging about this when it starts! 

I do feel the biggest change from this time last year is my perspective on everything; for one i actually have an understanding of the crazy ride my body is on, but also I have a better understanding of myself... I think this mostly came with my ADHD diagnosis and feeling as though I understood the world inside my noggin for the first time in a way that covered everything instead of just the anxiety, depression and self esteem issues. With this, it means I can try and give me and my body the grace it needs to get better!

So, I sign off on the first blog of 2026 with hope and a positive attitude towards the progress 2025 has given me!

Ta ta for now! 

 

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