My Story: From Bedridden At 17 To Healer Of My Own Health

I didn’t expect my health to change so suddenly at 17.

One moment I felt normal, and the next I was caught in a cycle of symptoms no one could explain.

Specialists, blood tests, and assessments pointed toward the same outcome:

I would likely be bedridden for the next 20 years.

They warned me about autoimmune disease, chronic inflammation, and a body that was struggling to function.

For a teenage girl imagining herself at 37, this picture was a nightmare.

But I want to start this by saying:

I found another path.

And it changed everything.

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When My Life Changed Overnight

My health collapsed quickly.

It started with glandular fever and spiralled into chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and a highly inflamed, overloaded liver.

A specialist told me my muscle strength and tone matched that of a 70 year-old woman.

In medical terms, it meant early muscle wasting from severe systemic inflammation.

In practical terms, it meant standing, walking, or even sitting upright for too long felt impossible.

My body wasn't just tired. It was overwhelmed.

My symptoms included:

• constant swelling and fluid retention

• pale, easily bruised limbs

• heavy fatigue even after 12-14 hours of sleep

• brain fog

• puffy face

• ringing ears

• clammy skin

• chronic hay fever

• mystery bruises

• dizziness from simply walking to the kitchen

• catching every cold and flu around me

And the strangest part?

I had grown up "healthy". I ate well. No alcohol. No smoking. No fast food.

I couldn't understand how everything fell apart so quickly.

I felt betrayed by my own body.

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The Isolation of Chronic Fatigue

At an age where you're meant to feel energetic, carefree, and excited about life after school, my world became smaller and smaller.

Every little thing you used to do suddenly requires calculation:

Will this set me back?

Is this worth the recovery time?

Small moments become risks.

Plans came with guilt.

And because the illness is invisible, people didn't always believe how sick I was.

Eventually, I started doubting myself too.

I pushed through school.

I tried to keep up my marks.

I tried to appear strong and bubbly like nothing was wrong.

But every time I pushed, I crashed.

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The Appointment That Changed Everything

Almost every appointment ended with the same outcome:

prescriptions to manage symptoms.

Something in me that knew masking them wasn’t the way.

Then one day, I sat in front of a well-respected specialist in Sydney.

He told me my health was deteriorating rapidly.

My liver was damaged.

My immune system was collapsing.

Autoimmune disease was likely next.

He recommended I be hospitalised for six months.

And something in me said:

No. That is not my path.

I needed another way.

And I was determined to find it.

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Root Cause Healing

That was when I learned about root cause healing.

And everything shifted.

I realised my body wasn't failing me.

It was communicating with me.

The symptoms weren't random.

They weren't "unlucky".

They were signals.

Signals that my system was overloaded.

That years of stress, antibiotics, hormonal disruption, and inflammation had pushed my body past its limits.

Once I understood that, something powerful happened.

I stopped fighting my body.And started listening.

Within six months, I began healing.

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The Moment Everything Became Clear

Understanding my body saved me.

It showed me something simple and profound:

The body is always moving toward balance when it's supported properly.

It is designed to regenerate, repair, and heal.

This experience gave me purpose.

Because once you go through something like this -

once you lose your health,

your identity,

the version of yourself you thought was “normal”

once you rebuild yourself from the inside out,

you can’t unknow what you now know.

Being in that powerless position — where I could have surrendered my future to a system that saw me as “unlucky” — revealed something deeper:

The path I found wasn't just for me.

It was preparing me for the work I'm meant to do now.

Chronic illness is not a life sentence.

You are not trapped.

You do not have to live a diseased life.

You do not have to choose fear and hand over your health to someone else.

Your body is intelligent.

It knows how to heal.

This understanding became the foundation of everything I now create.

A reminder that health is not something you earn.

It’s something you return to.

True health is peace.

And no matter where you are starting from, you can come back to both.

And I'm here to support you back to your balanced, natural, radiant self.