Crohn's disease

Possible spiritual roots

Extreme self-rejection coupled with guilt.

Wright also names profound rejection and abandonment, and a lack of a sense of self-worth or a compulsion to meet another person’s expectations; the latter two may also occur together. He additionally names codependency, taking on other people’s burdens that are not one’s own responsibility, hopelessness about the problem being experienced, and inner conflict.

Be in Health (2018)

Be in Health describes taking responsibility for other people’s wellbeing, treating their difficulties as one’s own failure, and fear, guilt, perfectionism, and the compulsion to prove oneself deserving through achievement.

Wright sets the self-rejection he describes alongside the immune system’s attack on intestinal tissue.

Spiritual response

The spiritual response may lead through healing from rejection, receiving the worth given by God, releasing burdens that belong to others, forgiveness, and prayer for freedom from self-rejection and the compulsion to prove oneself deserving.

Sources

Henry W. Wright — A More Excellent Way, English edition 2009, “Crohn’s Disease” section, p. 225 in the transcription.
Be in Health — Specific Profile of Crohn’s Disease, 15 August 2018.
A More Excellent Way — https://resources.beinhealth.com/products/amew
Specific Profile of Crohn’s Disease — https://www.beinhealth.com/crohns-disease/
The 8 Rs to Freedom — https://www.beinhealth.com/8-rs-to-freedom/