From Colitis to Liver Transplant: Balancing on Shifting Ground, with Lizzie Reumont

The Gifts of Trauma · Jul 30, 2026 · 57m

Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J'aime Rothbard

Diagnosed with an autoimmune disease at three, Lizzie grew up not feeling safe within her own body. A volatile home meant she didn't feel safe outside it either. This candid conversation traces a decades long journey from a childhood marked by chronic illness and family instability, through disordered eating and compulsive exercise to a liver transplant at 31, the long work of making a stranger's organ her own, and what it takes to keep finding, again and again, a small enough foothold to trust she can balance.

Lizzie shares:

- How…