Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford | Patient Advocacy

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Author: Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

29th Jan 202530th Jan 2025 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Holistic, complementary, and alternative medicine – what’s the difference?

20th Dec 202420th Oct 2025 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Breathwork; scientifically backed breathing exercises to improve your health!

17th Oct 202428th Jan 2026 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Swimwear for women with an ostomy

20th Sep 202428th Sep 2024 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Fibromyalgia – the journey so far

6th Sep 20246th Sep 2024 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Product testing opportunity | Ostomy leakage detection system

16th Jul 202418th Feb 2026 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

The role of the nervous system in inflammatory and immune conditions

18th Jun 202418th Jun 2024 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Research opportunity | Focus group for new stoma device

1st May 20244th May 2024 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Managing mouth ulcers in inflammatory bowel disease

20th Mar 202428th Jan 2026 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Bowel obstruction experience and fears

8th Mar 2024 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Research opportunity | Digital Health & IBD

29th Feb 20244th Nov 2024 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Healing trauma: Health psychology experience

1st Feb 202428th Jan 2026 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

FAQ | Managing different ostomy output

2nd Jan 202429th Feb 2024 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Healing trauma: My experience of CBT, talking therapy and medication

21st Nov 20232nd Jan 2024 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Healing trauma: Feeling like I’m not enough

16th Nov 202316th Nov 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Healing trauma: What is trauma?

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My #ADHD diagnosis was one week today, and while I’ve spent that time processing, a few things are starting to click into place. It’s a big piece of the puzzle. For a long time, #ChronicPain and #PTSD have been viewed as two VERY separate battles, but some recent research confirms a deep link. My latest blog post, The PTSD and pain link: What the research says, explores how medical trauma from emergency surgeries, hospital stays, or not being believed actually changes our nervous system - link in bio. Since finishing my #reiki training last month, I’ve been following my morning yoga practice with a "strengthening my light" meditation and some mini self-reiki. It’s been a lovely addition to the routine, but it turns out I was much more tired than I realised this morning. 😂 Yikes! 🙈 Spring must be on its way because I was out of the house today, without a hat! ☀️ The increase in people diagnosed with #ADHD in recent years made it impossible not to learn about it, just "in passing". Plus, some people around me have a keen interest in neurodivergence, too. It's not a rabbit hole I went down, but the more second-hand thing's I've learnt, the more I began to wonder whether it could be me. Then I wondered whether everyone thinks that about themselves? If you've ever looked at a restaurant menu and felt like you were staring at a list of potential landmines, you aren't being "difficult". I'm sharing how new research validates the food fear so many of us in the #IBD community live with for #EatingDisordersAwarenessWeek. SOME surgeries can impact fertility, but finding the facts and figures for your specific surgery can be difficult 🤯 It took me seven years after my #UlcerativeColitis diagnosis to finally talk about the emergency surgery, the sepsis, and the complications that followed. When I started sharing in 2014, I was doing it from a place of anger because I was tired of being misjudged. At the time, I didn't have the language for the grief I was carrying, and even the word "feelings" made me cringe. Not much of a roasting 😂😂 I'd love that! 🌿 Grief is a word we usually associate with losing someone, but when you are diagnosed with a lifelong #ChronicIllness, you are grieving too. You are grieving the loss of your healthy self, the person you were in your best memories, and the future you thought you would have. Don't worry, I haven't gone to the "dark side" 🙈
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