Joanne Lee SmithChronic pain and symptoms recovery Nurse / Coach

Stop Following Strict Rules To Heal

26 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Joanne Smith argues against adhering to rigid, structured healing protocols such as strict diets, warning that excessive rigidity can intensify symptoms and lead to frustration. She advocates for an intuitive, feel‑good approach, emphasizing trust in the mind’s natural ability to settle and quiet itself. Healing, she contends, should not feel like work; instead, it is about living fully and accepting oneself as already whole.

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But anyway, there is no, there's no structured way, there's no protocol that you need to follow. It can feel horrible following something so strict. I know people that are following very, very strict dietary things and, oh, it's so complicated, so overly complicated that actually we could unintentionally be amplifying our symptoms. Because they get louder and louder on the back of what we're doing, and we think we're doing something to help, and then getting frustrated and wondering why it's not working. So just whatever you feel, follow what feels good for you, yeah, with a genuine understanding that there is no work. We're not here, like, to have to work on ourselves. We're absolutely fine the way we are, so we're here to live. Yeah, so there is some trust obviously in these things, trusting that your mind knows how to settle itself, it knows what to do, it knows how to quieten all by itself, um, when we leave it to do what it does.