06/25/2026
๐ช๐ต๐ผ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ป๐ผ ๐น๐ผ๐ป๐ด๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฑ๐ผ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐?
The thing that surprised me most about treatment was not the physical pain.
It was losing my sense of who I was.
I had built an identity around being capable, energetic, the person others leaned on. I had a business, a mission, a clear sense of my own value. And treatment, methodically, without apology, took all of that away. Not permanently. But completely enough that I had to face the question: who am I when I cannot do any of the things that define me?
That question is terrifying. It is also, I have come to believe, one of the most important questions a person can ever face.
Because the answer, when you find it, is so much more solid than the version built on performance. What I found at the bottom of that question, when the career and the capability and the capability-performance had been stripped away, was something quieter and harder to shake. Something that didn't depend on what I could produce.
That foundation is what I coach from now on. And it is the reason I know, with certainty, that your worth is not located in your output.
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