Not in the exact same way. But close enough to understand what it feels like when your body turns against you and nobody can tell you why.
Personally I have experienced my own physical battles that conventional medicine couldn't fully explain or resolve. Like many people I was overwhelmed, stretched thin, struggling to create boundaries and terrible at asking for help. I was carrying more than I knew.
And my body started sending me messages.
For me those messages showed up in my skin. I battled horrific bouts of eczema and dermatitis from head to toe. Then came food intolerances that would make my face swell beyond recognition, so red it looked like someone had taken a blow torch to it. As it healed the itching was unfathomable. My skin was angry, irritated and inflamed.
My body wasn't just suffering. It was communicating.
Then it got louder. A uterine fibroid the size of a softball. Frequent urination, heavy prolonged periods, anemia, crushing exhaustion — and pain so extreme it would leave me curled up on the floor wondering whether to call 911.
Still my body was trying to tell me something.
In 2008 our whole world shifted when my husband was diagnosed with aggressive thyroid cancer. His body had been sending quieter messages for years — joint pain, digestive issues, recurring illness. Now it was screaming!
That was the moment everything changed for me.
I realized that so much of what our bodies express physically — the inflammation, the immune responses, the unexplained conditions that medicine struggles to fully treat, is connected to something deeper. The unprocessed emotions. The chronic stress physically altering the nervous system. The trauma the body absorbs and holds onto for years waiting for permission to release it.
When we finally got to the root of what our bodies had been carrying — everything shifted. Not overnight. But deeply and permanently.
That is why I do this work. Because I have lived the version of the story where the body is screaming and nobody is listening to what it's actually saying.
I learned to listen. And now I help others do the same.