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When Hope Feels Gone: FND, Survival & Finding Your Way Back

What happens when your body stops cooperating, doctors don’t have answers, and the life you knew suddenly feels like it disappeared?

In this deeply personal episode, I sit down with my former client Tessa Fielding to talk about her journey with chronic pain, Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), medical dismissal, losing her independence — and slowly finding her way back to herself.

Tessa shares the moments when hope felt incredibly far away, what it was like to be told this might simply be her life, and the tiny victories that started proving otherwise: driving again, shopping alone…

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