Making the journey a reality
What did my journey look like? Where did I start, and where did I get to?
Use your own data to self-track.
Self-define your problems and criteria for measuring progress.
Because I can't afford the treatments that work, it means I am getting sicker. I am trapped in a cycle of expensive treatments and I can't see an end. I have no financial security that I can rely on.
Where did you get to?
I feel a lot more financially secure. In addition to reducing my lifestyle costs and therapies that weren't working we now have a savings plan which means that if I need to see a good specialist I can afford this. We are also planning a holiday.
Follow the survey logic to unpack each problem.
Only then will you get your light-bulb moment - when the possibility becomes a probability
It has given me space to sit with my frustrations and feelings, and then allowed me to look at my health and life problems from a wider lens. I have been able to make incremental choices and changes by letting go of an ‘all or none’ mentality and instead focusing on what are the options available to me, and how they fit with my priorities.
We each sing our own song; in time this becomes a chorus.
Eventually, through all our contributions, we can share the collective story of what works.
I want to drill down into the resources. I am interested in what lifestyle changes were of the most value for my condition and my circumstances.
The collective song and storytelling is the only affordable remedy we have within the short time left.
There will come a time when people will wonder how we ever imagined that we could have a health system without factoring in the role that the community plays in building resilience.
“Ironically, the very institutions and systems people rely upon for safety are intensifying the need to seek a remedy as they too reach a tipping point of non-affordability and unsustainability”
— Sir Muir Gray, NHS UK —