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Episode 123: Invisible Illness, Unshakable Strength - The Long Road To Being Heard and Believed
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What happens when you spend 18 years searching for answers to symptoms no one else can see?
In this powerful episode, Rachel Weaver shares her long and exhausting journey with chronic dizziness, beginning the day before graduate school and continuing through years of appointments, tests, frustration, and uncertainty.
Her story shines a light on what it feels like to live with an invisible illness while trying to function, be believed, and keep moving forward.
Rachel opens up about the emotional weight of being dismissed, misunderstood, or told you must be “fine” because you…
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