Shailene Woodley Reveals What Helped Her Heal From Debilitating Thriller Sickness

Shailene Woodley is opening up a couple of debilitating well being scare she endured in her early 20s and the way she needed to deal with her previous trauma to let herself heal.

Showing on Tuesday’s episode of the “SHE MD” podcast, the star, 32, instructed hosts Mary Alice Haney and Dr. Thais Aliabadi in regards to the hassle she had attempting to determine the reason for her crushing thriller sickness and the way it led her to some revelations about her psychological well being.

“I was losing my hearing. I couldn’t walk for longer than five minutes at a time without having to lay down for hours and hours and hours and sleep,” she instructed the hosts. “Everything I ate hurt my stomach.”

Whereas Woodley opted to maintain her actual prognosis personal, telling the hosts the her well being standing “feels like a personal thing,” she mentioned she was overwhelmed by the quantity of “mixed information” docs provided when she sought out assist.

“It was this conflation of issues and diagnoses and different doctors telling me different things,” the “Big Little Lies” actor mentioned, noting the way it took her almost a decade to grasp what precisely was taking place.

Woodley instructed the hosts how her signs unleashed a world of “mental fuckery” into her life, and described how her bodily ache impacted the best way she behaved and thought.

“Throughout that decade, a lot of other things came from feeling so much discomfort physically,” she went on. “Like, oh my gosh, if everything hurts my stomach, I’m now suddenly afraid of food.”

Whereas the star of “Three Women” was “so happy” to share that she’s now wholesome, she revealed how the years-long ordeal made her must take a tough have a look at how she’d been impacted by emotional trauma.

“It forced me to really take a deep look and become introspective,” the star mentioned, revealing how addressing her PTSD ended up being one other aspect of her therapeutic course of.

″[That trauma] undoubtedly took a toll on my physique and took a toll emotionally, which then caught in my physique and affected me,” she mentioned.

“I believe ultimately the thing that led me [to heal], alongside, again, the physical aspects, was acknowledging that I was in a constant state of fight or flight … because I hadn’t yet established what a calm nervous system could look like, and what true safety in myself could look like.”

“Once I focused on that, physically everything began to change and balance out for me,” she defined.

Woodley additionally instructed the hosts how a lot her new present, “Three Women,” resonated along with her after she’d grappled with a lot ache, each emotionally and bodily.

“This felt like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to really dive in and explore themes that most of us go through as women,” she mentioned of the collection, which focuses on the sexualities of a gaggle of ladies.

Pointing to how the collection tackles matters like miscarriages, falling in love, physique dysmorphia and extra, Woodley mentioned she was grateful to have the ability to deal with “being in a confusing place where we feel like we can’t communicate what we really want because we don’t feel safe in our own bodies.”

“Three Women” is obtainable to stream on Starz.