Your Body Will Make You Listen with Chelsea Litsey

About this episode

Chelsea Litsey shares her journey of high-functioning while battling autoimmune illness and anxiety.

From the outside, it can look like you have it all handled. The career, the family, the life you said you wanted. But underneath, something keeps breaking down, and it starts to feel like life is just happening to you. In this episode, I sit down with Chelsea Litsey, who spent years high-functioning on the surface while her body was quietly falling apart. Autoimmune illness since she was nine, anxiety she had never felt before, and a rock bottom that finally made her stop pushing through. Wha...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Stephanie Lopez

Guest: Chelsea Litsey

Topics covered

• autoimmune illness
• anxiety
• high-functioning
• mental health
• personal struggle

Keywords

• autoimmune
• anxiety
• mental health
• high-functioning
• personal growth

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