Accredited school
Two Brains are Better Than One
Edited: July 2, 2018
Zoe had always suffered from painful stomach cramps, even as a small child. She would wake up with tummy pain before school or in the days leading up to exams or sometimes even something she was looking forward to like a birthday party or sleepover with friends. Her mother called it ‘worry ache’. Her GP did all the usual tests and told the family that Zoe would ‘grow out of it’. She didn’t. As a teenager, Zoe was diagnosed with IBS. She was told that her gut was ‘sensitive’ to certain foods, stress, lack of exercise or fibre – and that this was a lifelong, untreatable condition that she should learn to accept.