Hayley D Rafferty

2020, the year I became a mum but also the year I started pushing to get my declining health sorted.

I've never felt comfortable in myself but even with the obvious symptoms, I never thought it was endometriosis. My body changed after pregnancy & child birth and I knew something wasn't right.

Countless appointments, fighting to be heard with healthcare professionals & losing myself along the way, when I should be enjoying my son's first years

I am now finally learning to accept my body.
Be kind to it & understand how to feed it instead to starve it.

If you're stuck in a negative place, living with endometriosis...I hear you & see you.

Drop a 💛 in the comments and I'll reach out

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That's basically two full work days.

Not because of laziness
Not because we're not committed

Because pain that doesn't pause for a 9-5.

And yet most of us show up anyway. Push through. Smile through meetings we can barely sit in.

If this is you, you're not imagining it.

You're managing a chronic illness on top of a full-time job, and that deserves way more recognition than it gets.

📌 Save this if you needed the validation today

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