Lyme Disease Tip Summary:

Erika Schlick, founder of The Trail to Health, shares a transformative mindset hack: stop identifying with Lyme disease. By changing how you view your illness, you empower your path to recovery.

1. Don’t Let Lyme Define You

   • It’s common for chronic illness to become part of your identity.

   • Erika urges you to resist the trap of believing Lyme is a permanent part of who you are.

2. Reframe Lyme as an Unwanted Guest

   • Think of Lyme as a squatter in your body—not something that belongs to you.

   • You’re actively working through treatments to evict it from your system.

3. Break the Energetic Attachment

   • The more you identify with Lyme emotionally and mentally, the more space you give it.

   • Shifting your mindset helps separate your true self from the illness.

4. Believe in Healing, Not Permanence

   • Even if Lyme is labeled “chronic” or “incurable,” don’t accept it as your forever state.

   • See it as a phase you’re moving through, not a life sentence.

“The less you identify with it, the less you give it a home… the easier it’s going to be to get past it.” – Erika Schlick

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Video Transcript:
“Hi guys. Erika Schlick here from the Trail to Health, and I’m so excited to be teaming up with Tick Boot Camp to share my Lyme hack for the year. One thing I really want to talk about is identifying as someone that has Lyme. It’s really easy to let that be part of your identity. I think that’s where a lot of people kind of just get stuck in this situation, where they believe Lyme is a part of them, and it’s going to be a part of them forever. You should really kind of try to shift your mindset and try to think of Lyme as just kind of being this like squatter in your body, if you will, that doesn’t really belong there, doesn’t really like need to be living there. And you’re working really hard doing all your treatments, and all the work you’re doing on yourself to get it cleared out of your body. So, the less you can identify with it, the less you kind of give it a home, energetically, mentally, emotionally, physically in your body, the more likely you are going to be able to separate yourself from that and get past kind of this, you know, period of Lyme that you’re going through. Don’t think of it as something forever. I know it’s easy to get stuck in that, with it being an incurable disease and something that is chronic, but really the less kind of home that you give it within yourself and within your body, the easier it’s going to be to kind of get past that and clear that out and not make it such a big part of your identity. Think of it as a passing phase and you’re going to get better and really get that into your mindset.” – Erika Schlick