Chronic Illness: The Hope is in God

On this episode, my guest, Claire Wilbur, is a follower of Christ, a wife, and mother. Claire shares her journey navigating through the complexities of chronic and invisible illnesses while raising children, medical freedom advocacy, and while doing her best to show up each day. She brings us through her process living with late-stage Lyme Disease, healing from mold toxicity, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, nervous system dysregulation, and more. After spending thousands on a variety of diagnostic tests, modalities, treatments, and therapies, -- burned out, and exhausted, Claire shifted towards the purpose of what her illnesses were showing and unraveled the many layers of healing and health, including mindset, and the daily and full surrender to God in the process. Claire shares that after countless treatments and approaches had failed, the Bible is her life raft. And how turning more to God is providing hope and is shifting her healing. Illness can be an opportunity to renew the mind, course correct how we speak to ourselves, deepen one's faith, forgive others, and offer yourself grace. Claire offers inspirational proverbs, stories, and quotes to inspire hope for those in the middle of experiencing health crises, who suffer with illnesses they cannot explain, and those living with debilitating diseases. We explore how fear-based responses and fear itself lowers the immune system, how chronic and invisible illnesses are often misunderstood, and how using our health challenges and trials can grow, transform, heal, and build character from an empowering and Christ-centered perspective. Show Notes: Claire Wilbur - Follower of Christ, wife, mother In (John 9:3) it discusses a man who was born blind and Jesus later heals. It goes on to teach us that we should not focus on the cause of our illness, but focus on the purpose. The purpose is to bring glory to God. Mark 5:25–26 "And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse." "For many people walking through chronic illness, this passage is especially meaningful because it acknowledges the exhaustion, disappointment, and financial burden that can come from years of seeking answers before encountering Christ's healing power." - Claire Wilbur 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 "Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day." Proverbs 17:22 "A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones." Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope." James 1:2-4 "Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds..." Romans 8:18 "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us." Romans 5:3-5 "We rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope." Claire's friend Sara from church who also suffers says: “Health is a crown that only the sick can see.” (Many don’t see their crown of health because they’ve always had it.) The DNRS program: https://retrainingthebrain.com/the-pr... ME/CFS Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: https://globalhealing.com/blogs/educa...