Freedom From the Identity Built Around Illness

What do we actually want freedom from?

Freedom to be

For many of the people I work with, it isn’t just symptoms.

It’s the identity that formed around those symptoms.

The “sensitive one.”

The “sick one.”

The “strong one.

”The “good girl.

”The one who keeps it together.

The one who doesn’t make waves.

Freedom from constantly shrinking your expression.

Freedom from wearing masks to fit in.

Freedom from low self-esteem disguised as humility.

Freedom from ignoring your own needs to keep others comfortable.

Because here’s what I’ve seen again and again:

When you suppress your truth, your body holds it.

When you override your needs, your nervous system keeps score.

What we call dis-ease may not be random.

It may be the cost of self-abandonment.

And over time, the body gets louder.

Symptoms flare when you speak up.

Fatigue deepens when you overgive.

Anxiety rises when you betray your own knowing.

The body is not punishing you.

It’s protecting you.

Freedom isn’t abstract.

It isn’t spiritual bypassing.

It isn’t “positive thinking.”

Freedom is lived.

It requires the capacity to feel.

The maturity to take responsibility.

The courage to stop blaming your body and start listening to it.

And yes, that kind of capacity is often built with both inner work and skilled guidance. No one rewires lifelong patterns alone.

Freedom in a world that rewards conformity comes at a cost.

You may lose approval based security.

You may outgrow roles.

You may disrupt old dynamics and create conflict.

But the cost of not choosing freedom is higher:

Continued suffering.

Symptom suppression instead of symptom resolution.

Chronic inner conflict.

Dimming your light and withdrawing the gift of being fully you.

Your body is not asking you to be perfect.

It may simply be asking you to stop abandoning yourself.

Maybe what you call illness is actually an initiation.

An invitation to remember who you were before you learned to shrink.

If this resonates, you’re not alone.

And you don’t have to navigate it alone either.

For the next six weeks, I’m guiding a Remember Your True Self Challenge, a heart-centered space where we explore build emotional and nervous system capacity, and reclaim the parts of you that have been suppressed. Join us for free

You are equally invited to schedule your 1:1 healing session with me for personalized deep dive guidance to heal inside out - as you remember your true self.

Your body might already be calling you toward something more.

The question is:

Are you ready to listen?