Ep. 09 | The Formula for Chronic Illness
In this episode, I'm getting into something that's been sensitive for me to share: a belief I formed as a little girl that I was only loved when I was sick.
I walk through where that belief actually came from (sustained abuse from a sibling that started when I was ten or eleven and went on through high school), and the fact that when I reached out for help, I wasn't believed. I talk about how that landed in my body as shame, how it showed up in destructive behavior as a teenager, and how, strangely, being sick became the one place I still felt my mother's nurturing love without feeling like a…
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