This is a first-person testimonial by Laura (spoken in 2019 timeframe) describing long-standing celiac disease and severe anxiety around food that intensified after pregnancy. She recounts repeated medical visits and many diet and supplement trials (low FODMAP, SIBO-focused treatments, functional medicine) before a practitioner recommended the Gupta Program. Her first meditation (the "softening flow") produced strong relief; she now only avoids gluten but no longer fears food and reports major improvements in mental/emotional wellbeing and self-awareness.
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My name is Lara. I was. This was kind of back in 2019, I was. I actually had my son, my. My oldest son. And I had a fine pregnancy, but I was very anxious and just felt like something was off. And then about six months after I was diagnosed with celiac disease, but it took quite some time to get there. And I. I truly believe I probably had celiac disease for probably the majority of my life. And so I was constantly going through this cycle of what did I eat, what is causing this? And it just became this loop, like we say, of constantly reanalyzing my day. What did I eat, what did I do? The symptoms were tough because I. Like I said, I just continued to feed into them of continuing to restrict my diet, continuing to just try to seek out answers anywhere and everywhere I could. I went to the ER a few times. I was then getting more anxious about being able to do my job. I tried a number of diets with a dietitian. Like, I, I tried low fodmap. I tried, you know, different diets were recommended to me. Continuing to try to like isolate foods. I tried so many countless supplements, like for low stomach acid, for different things that could be in the stomach to kind of get rid of like SIBO and different things. I went to a functional medicine practitioner for about a year and, and she's the one who actually recommended this program to me. I think right before I started, I. I kind of hit this point of I can't be in this cycle anymore, of limiting foods. I just wanted to eat foods. I wanted to move on with my life. And I remember the first meditation I did was the. Was the softening flow. And I just felt this huge relief and just a sense of like, this is it, this is what I need. And I was crying just like I am now. I have zero restrictions on my diet anymore. I eat besides gluten, but I am not scared of any food. So for me that's like a huge improvement mentally and emotionally. This has helped me grow on this journey to self awareness and auth. Authenticity that's completely changed who I am. And I. I definitely think I'm a very different person than when I was a few years ago kind of at. At my. My deepest, darkest point. And, and I feel completely on the other side of that at like my top is my highest point, but hopefully going even higher.
