Your Eyes Are Telling You Something - Dry Eye Disease

Rheece Hartte

Jun 10 • Give Advice

Your Eyes Are Telling You Something - Dry Eye Disease - 1D

What your body may be telling you.

We have talked about the hormones. We have talked about the gut.

Now I want to talk about something that sits underneath both of those things.

In our years of working with women, we have noticed a pattern that goes beyond the clinical.

The women who come to us with chronic dry eye are often women who have been strong for a very long time.

They are the ones who hold things together.
Who push through.
Who take care of everyone else first and themselves last, if at all.
They are women who have become very accomplished at not letting themselves be seen to struggle.

The body has its own language. And sometimes that language is surprisingly literal.

Dry eye, at its most fundamental level, is the eye losing its ability to stay clear, comfortable, and protected.

It is the surface of the eye becoming exposed in a way it was never designed to tolerate.

I am not asking you to accept this as a diagnosis. I am asking you to sit with a question.

What in your life have you been seeing through a fog?
What have you been looking at without really allowing yourself to see it clearly?
Where have you been exposed, quietly, and telling yourself and everyone around you that you are fine?

The clinical picture is real.

The systemic root causes driving your tear film breakdown are real and they are addressable.

But in our experience, the women who heal most completely are always the ones willing to look at both layers. The physical, and the one that lives underneath it.

Your eyes are telling you something.

Are you ready to hear the message?

If you recognize your own story in these posts and you want to understand what is driving your specific symptoms, this is exactly the conversation we have inside coaching.

You can find out how to work with us by just asking below. Ask questions. We read every response.

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Your Eyes Are Telling You Something - Dry Eye Disease - 1D