Admittedly, it can be a little embarrassing when you're using your own personal experience for health stories, especially in the case of this new candida story I've done for iVillage.co.uk (it reveals a little too much for my liking!). But as anyone who writes from personal experience knows, it makes the whole process of putting the feature together a lot easier, as well as making it more real for the reader - particularly if they can relate to what is being said.
What I also liked about being able to write this feature is that it links in somewhat with what I've been writing about on my non-dieting blog, Chocolate & Beyond. On this blog, I've talked a lot about realising I had to change my diet because of candida, such as on a post called Making the choice to follow an anti-Candida diet.
Sometimes we just have to be open about ourselves in order to reach our audiences, and so what if everyone knows a bothersome little yeast infection used to make me fart?! Oh dear.
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