When you have IBS or any chronic health condition, there are voices both inside and outside of you that tell you to shrink your life

They tell you that you're complaining too much. You're high maintenance. Your needs are too big. You're stressing yourself and others out too much.

So you take those words and you isolate. You make yourself, your needs, your desires, your emotions, smaller.

You take up less space, until there's really not much left.

I've been there. I know how it feels.

And I challenge you to disrupt those thoughts with two simple words: worth it.

Your life is worth living, fully. Your needs are worth honoring. Your emotions are worth communicating. Your body is worth existing.

You are worth it. And this hat is your daily reminder.

This is a classic baseball-style cap, with a worn in cotton material in a neutral, washed forest green color.