My Story
From the outside, everything looked well. Inside, I was running on empty, and no one could tell me why.
This is the story of how I found my way back to myself, and why I now help other women do the same.
Are you tired all the time, even after a full night's sleep? Struggling to lose weight that will not shift no matter what you try? Living with PCOS, thyroid trouble, bloating, or PMS that swallows half your month?
You have read the articles, watched the reels, and asked Google and every AI a hundred questions, and you still feel more confused than when you started.
You are not lazy, and you are not imagining it. You are overwhelmed. You do not need more information. You need someone to help it finally make sense.
Hi, I'm Farkhanda. This is my story.
I was never like most girls chasing thin. I wanted to feel strong, the kind of woman who moves through her whole day without a single ache slowing her down. I was an athlete at school, and I never really stopped. I loved what movement did for my energy and my head, not just my shape.
Health was not a project for me. It was simply how I lived. Or so I believed.
Then lockdown arrived, and the whole world stopped. Mine did not. My home was already half a gym, so I turned the dining table into a ping-pong table and the balcony into a walking track. I kept moving, kept cooking, kept going.
My kitchen became a little laboratory. I made snacks, drinks, even ice lollies that were as delicious as they were good for you, real ingredients, nothing that ever tasted like punishment. If anyone had this whole health thing figured out, it looked like me.
Everything looked right. That is what made what came next so confusing.
It began quietly, in the middle of all that health. During lockdown, at my most active, my shoulder simply froze, and stayed frozen for two long years. Then came the allergies, the asthma, the months of difficult PMS.
Then I lost my mother.
Grief does not stay in your heart. Mine slipped quietly into my body. I did not see it, I did not even know what was happening. The sleepless nights came. IBS arrived, and my stomach was suddenly at war with me. My relationship with food grew strange, and one by one I began avoiding whatever left me in pain, until my plate got smaller, and somehow my life felt smaller with it.
I went from doctor to doctor, and every time I heard the same three words.
Your tests are normal.
My endocrinologist gave me medication, and still nothing shifted. If anything it worsened, and my body grew sensitive to more and more foods.
But I did not feel fine, and slowly I started to feel unseen. There is a particular loneliness in being unwell while everyone insists nothing is wrong.
Everything looked healthy. Nothing felt healthy.
And here is what I need you to hear. If this could happen to me, active and careful and doing everything "right," then it is not your fault. It is your body asking for help. And if I found my way back, so can you.
So at last, I stopped waiting for someone else to have the answer, and I began to study my own body the way I wished someone would.
No one had ever told me that sleep was more than rest, that while we sleep the body quietly repairs and the liver does its work of clearing what we no longer need. I had been falling apart in the dark, and did not even know it.
Piece by piece, it came together. My body was not taking gluten or dairy well, so I let them go.
I trained as a health coach with CNM and studied the everyday science of the body, nutrition, physiology, anatomy, biomedicine, and how, given the right conditions, the body quietly heals itself.
Slowly, I came home to my own body, and learned to listen to what it had been trying to tell me all along.
None of it turned me into a health freak. It made me calm, confident, and at home in my own body. I am human, so I still slip. The difference is that now I always know how to find my way back.
For years I used to ask, half joking, why is it always me lifting everyone else, and no one lifting me? For the longest time, no one had an answer. Now I do.
I do not need anyone to rescue me, because I have learned to rescue myself. When I fall, I do not wait to be picked up. But I could never walk past someone else who is struggling. I reach out my hand, every time.
That is who I am, and it is exactly why I do this work. I am not here to hand you a plan and disappear. I am here to walk beside you until standing on your own becomes second nature.
And now, it is your turn. I want you to be the hero of your story too.
We live in an age of endless information. Most women already know the basics, eat better, sleep more, move your body. They know. They are just not doing it.
That is not a willpower problem. Knowing something and fitting it into a real, busy life are two different things. That gap is where I come in.
I am not here to sell supplements or hand you a rigid plan. A health coach helps you understand your own body, then makes the healthy choice the easy one, in the life you already live. Small, steady steps, until they quietly become you.
Farkhanda Jabeen For Lifestyle Coaching · Licensed in Dubai · Trade Licence No. 1638196 · Department of Economy and Tourism
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