How I Stopped Hiding My Story And Fought For My Health- From Burnout To Bright

How I Stopped Hiding My Story And Fought For My Health- From Burnout To Bright

Why you’ve got to check out today’s episode

0:00Why Share The Hard Parts

4:50Softened By Friendship, Opened By A Podcast

10:40Childhood Roles And The Mediator Identity

18:10From Listener To Invisible: Minimizing Self

24:20Gym Years, Divorce, And Starting Over

31:40Mysterious Symptoms And Spaghetti Solutions

39:20Finding A Functional Doctor And Relief

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I open up about the silent collapse behind a polished life: years of fatigue, weight gain without answers, surgery for benign tumors, and the slow climb back to energy. We trace the beliefs that kept us quiet, the labs that finally told the truth, and the practices that made healing stick.

• naming the mediator role and why it hid our needs
• symptoms that didn’t fit the advice we kept hearing
• functional testing for cortisol, insulin resistance and thyroid
• targeted supplements and meds that finally moved the needle
• surgery for armpit lumps, biopsy choice and benign results
• slow weight loss, better sleep and returning capacity
• daily tools that helped: red light, sauna, grounding, hydrogen tablets
• advocating for care, pushing for labs and refusing dismissal
• gratitude for a patient partner and steady friends
• encouragement to seek help and stop minimizing your story