A Story of Coeliac Disease

A True story...
Once upon a time
a baby girl was born into a family of hard working, ‘salt of the earth’, type of people. 

This family worked hard, played hard and ate hearty meals. Everyone was strong, and had a big build, except for the little girl who was tiny and sparrow like. Her mother seemed unable to notice this though and served as much food on her plate as her two older brothers. 

This was a family where no one left food at a mealtime because that would be a waste, so the little girl would battle through her mealtimes, giving what she could to her brothers when her mother wasn’t looking. 

Her mother was a large and formidable woman, although loving, she was not one to argue with. Her mothers mantra was to eat up and grow strong. ( she herself had grown up in harsh wartime Britain- a time of food rationing and fear) 

Twenty years went by and after much pain and illness she was finally diagnosed with Coeliacs Disease. 
At last she could finally speak out and refuse food without suffering the negative consequences of being rejected or told off by her mother. 

Finally her physical body had manifested her subconscious desire to eat less. 
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In coeliac’s wheat becomes the allergen, bread is associated with eating, being nourished, sharing and family connection. So gluten intolerance is representative of difficulties in the family dynamic, rejection of family values, or a feeling of being rejected. There may also be poverty, hardship, famine in the ancestral line. 
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