I’ve been tidying and decorating my house. This morning, I hung some crystal garlands in my windows and delighted in the tiny rainbows that danced over my walls. As I was hanging a Japanese paper lantern in the corner of my room where I write every morning, I flashed in some sort of strange loop back to a memory of myself in 2013. I was living in a tiny studio apartment in NW Portland, and I had an idea about a blog. As I worked to create the look and feel of this blog—about living with Crohn’s disease—I stopped for an Instagram break and was struck by a picture of women, in a garden covered with green growing things, surrounded by prisms. The atmosphere was almost magical—something that I desperately wanted in my life at the time.

It hit me, today, in 2019, that I am now living the life that 2013-me wanted so much. I’m surrounded by green growing things and tiny dancing rainbows, sustained by joy and completely remade into a healthy human being, body and mind.

I wish I could reach back through time and pull 2013-me through to today, but without that six years in between—six incredibly tough years in which I learned some of the hardest lessons of my life—I wouldn’t be here now.

Back in 2013, I started a blog but couldn’t sustain it. I didn’t have the energy, or the deep confidence that only comes from knowing that I’ve been to hell and back. Now, I can do anything.

I’ve set some big challenges for April. Watch this space.

 

 

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Ayres, who lives in San Diego, claimed she continued to have digestion issues and was diagnosed with SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth) and was advised by a doctor to start incorporating eggs and fish into her diet, which she did.

In the video, Ayres explains how her digestion problems have been relieved since leaving the raw vegan diet and espouses that all bodies are different.

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“So you’re saying you would rather eat animals and their products then take an antibiotic pill? That’s unbelievable. Wow,” another wrote, commenting on Ayers’ statement that a doctor said she could continue a vegan diet if she took an antibiotic. Ayers refused, stating in the video that she wanted to heal as “naturally” as possible.

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