Wendy Leung:
Have you given up on medical professionals acknowledging your IBS pain and what you’re
going through?
Watch this video to learn why I totally hear you and why I’m so passionate about helping
people just like you!
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If you’ve been told that you’ll just have to “deal with” your IBS for the rest of
your life, by the end of this video you’ll feel inspired to believe that IBS is definitely
not a forever thing.
I’m Wendy Leung, Holistic Health & Happiness Coach, Licensed Acupuncturist, and Powerhouse
IBS Conqueror, and today I’m sharing with you my IBS cure story so you can feel inspired
and hopeful that you can heal too!
If you’ve been tuning in, then you know that my channel’s all about Irritable Bowel
Syndrome, but you might not know why.
With my expertise in the Traditional Chinese Medical system I could help many people with
many different conditions, but I chose to coach people with IBS because: I’ve been
through the struggle.
I know it’s real, and it frustrates me that 15 years after I muddled through it alone,
there’s STILL no concrete help in Western medicine for IBS.
I know that a lot of you out there are still struggling, so today I’m sharing with you
my personal IBS story so you can learn how I became a Powerhouse IBS Conqueror and why
I can see that for all of you too!
When I was in university, I put a lot of pressure on myself and pushed myself to the limit:
I was in class for 12 hours at a time, I would finish projects overnight, I had two part-time
jobs, I was hardly sleeping and not eating properly.
I started getting excruciating stomach pains that wouldn’t go away no matter what I tried.
It hurt if I ate, if I didn’t eat, if I was able to go to the bathroom and if I wasn’t.
And most of the time I wasn't because I had IBS-C: IBS Constipation.
It hurt all day and all night and I was so bloated sometimes that I would look like I
was pregnant.
You guys know how terrible that is, right?
If it weren’t for low-waisted jeans I’dve been wearing mumus all day, every day.
My doctors put me through all the medical tests to rule out Crohn’s, colitis, celiac,
etc, and at the end of it they gave me pills for my IBS that flared up my GERD (serious
acid reflux, for those of you who don’t know) and more pills for my GERD that flared
up my IBS.
No one talked to me about nutrition, my stress, or adjusting my lifestyle.
The tests made me feel sicker and I became even more stressed out, on top of the stress
I was already feeling for school.
I’d miss class and I'd call in sick for work in the middle of the night because I
knew I couldn’t handle going to work that day.
And I felt terrible about it, because I prided myself on being a responsible person who could
handle anything.
When a gastro specialist finally saw me, his only advice was to eat more bran, even though
I already knew that bran was a trigger for me.
He said I just needed to eat more, so I gave it a shot because he was a specialist and
he should know, right?
What’s the most frustrating thing you’ve heard from a medical team about your IBS?
Let me know in the comments below.
I still have such a vivid memory of the morning when I ate bran buds for breakfast, and then
I doubled over in pain in the middle of the subway station.
I can’t even remember if I made it to work or turned around and somehow made it home.
All I remember is feeling so disappointed – in myself for not being able to push through
it any more, and in the Western medical system for having no actual answers to help me.
But I refused to believe that there wasn’t any way for me to get better, especially since
the doctors had told me there wasn’t anything physiologically wrong with me, so I decided
in that moment that I was going to figure it out on my own.
I went through so many confusing months of trial and error, picking through my diet,
my lifestyle, my stress management with a fine-toothed comb.
After making some serious changes to my diet I did start to feel better, but I’d still
get attacks whenever I was emotionally stressed out and it left me with some really big question
marks: Why did it happen to me and not someone else?
What if it’s not really gone and comes back?
And the biggest, most important one was: how can I make it go away for good?
I never really found the answer until years later, when I decided to make a really big
life decision and change my career to study Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Acupuncture.
TCM FINALLY explained IBS in a way that made sense, and it gave me a gameplan to permanently
heal and help others do exactly the same thing!
So, yes, I’ve been trained to treat all sorts of different conditions and in my acupuncture
practice, that’s exactly that I do.
But as a coach, I focus on IBS, stress and digestion, because I know there's so many
of you out there still struggling and not enough help out there for you.
But here’s the light at the end of the tunnel: IBS is well understood by Traditional Chinese
Medical system, and if you stick with my channel, you’ll learn all the little gems you need
to be able to make your IBS cure story as successful as mine: pain-free for almost 15
years; loving food and eating almost anything I want in moderation; loving life instead
of hiding away, and being healthy and happy, fully in tune with my body, mind and spirit!
So that’s why I’m here.
I know exactly what you’re going through, and I hope that by sharing how I’m thriving
despite my IBS diagnosis, that it'll inspire and make you feel hopeful that you can also
thrive too!
Going through trial and error to figure out all of that stuff alone was really, really
frustrating and I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
If you’re tired of struggling with IBS alone, and you want to know more about a system that
actually works to get IBS under control once and for all, you can visit my website and
learn a little bit more about how I work with my clients and about my IBS program.
The link is in the description box below.
Also, come join a tribe of women just like you in my Facebook community of Powerful Women
Conquering IBS, where I share tips on how to kickstart your IBS journey to health.
If you liked this video, please let me know by liking it below, and tell me your IBS story
in the comment section, and also share with me your IBS story - I'd love to hear in the
comment section.
Do share this story with anybody that you feel like could use that hope and inspiration
because I want you to all understand that IBS is not a forever thing so I can help you
guys beat this thing together!
I have so much more to talk about about IBS, including tips on how you can kick IBS to
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