福祉サービスに助けを求めたことで、
私は初めて「生きることを立て直す」というテーマに真正面から向き合うことになりました。
最初の課題は食事でした。
これまで、スーパーの惣菜やお弁当、カット野菜や野菜ジュースなど、加工された食品に頼りきり
それが、自分の体をここまで弱らせていたことに気づいてはいましたが、原因を究明しそれを理解し、真剣に改善策に取り組むには、心のゆとりが足りなかったのです。
こうして時間の制約から解放されることにより、食事療法から始まり、結果的に自分自身の抱えていた悩みを解決する長い心の旅が始まりました。
私は、そもそも既往歴１０年以上、完治不可能と言われている炎症性腸疾患を抱えていました。
その病を医療と薬任せでいたのも、今回の積もり積もった体調不良につながっていたとも感じていたので、減薬をしながら食事療法を試してみることに。
どんなに食事を制限しても、それまで投薬で抑えていた症状を減薬すると、当然のごとく症状は悪化しました。
しかし、その時もう仕事のしがらみもない状況で常に自宅に居れる状態だったので、思い切って減薬をしつつ食事療法を継続させてみることにしました。
The First Step Toward Renewal — My Journey into Nutritional Healing
By reaching out to the city’s welfare services,
I was, for the first time, forced to face the theme of rebuilding my life from the ground up.
The very first challenge I had to confront was food.
For years, I had relied on store-bought meals, ready-made bentos, pre-cut vegetables, and vegetable juices—
processed foods that had slowly but steadily weakened my body.
Deep down, I knew they were part of the reason my health had deteriorated so badly.
But knowing the cause and truly understanding it—
and having the mental space to take genuine action—were two very different things.
Once I was freed from the constant time pressures of work,
I finally began my journey of nutritional therapy.
That journey would eventually lead to something far deeper—
a long inner voyage toward healing the struggles I had carried within myself.
I had been living with an inflammatory bowel disease for over ten years,
a condition doctors had told me was incurable.
Looking back, I realized that relying solely on medication and medical treatment
had also contributed to the gradual collapse of my health.
So I decided to begin a careful experiment:
to reduce my medication little by little, while practicing nutritional healing.
Of course, as soon as I started to taper off my medication,
the symptoms that had been suppressed by drugs inevitably worsened—
no matter how strictly I controlled my diet.
But at that point, I no longer had to push myself to go to work.
I was home, with time and space to listen to my body.
So I made a firm decision:
I would continue the process—gradually, patiently—
reducing the medication while trusting the power of food to guide my recovery.
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