The Person You Became Inside Your Own Home — People Pleasing, Chronic Illness, and What Your Body Has Been Trying to Tell You

About this episode

Dr. Connie Cheung discusses the impact of family roles on women's health and chronic illness.

This is the episode most wellness content never makes. Because it hits too close to home. Literally. Dr. Connie Cheung — physical therapist, functional medicine practitioner, nutritionist, and someone who spent four years in kidney failure while running a household and a wellness business alone — talks about the invisible chronic stressor that is keeping millions of women sick: the role they play inside their own families. Not abuse. Not obvious toxicity. The quieter thing. The mother-in-law whose criticism arrives sideways. The husband who stopped seeing you because your competence made you invisible. The children whose struggles you have not named out loud yet. The role of the one who holds everything together — and what that role is doing to your nervous system, your gut, your hormones, your immune system, and the weight that will not shift no matter what you do. Research confirms that women who self-silence and chronically suppress their own needs are at significantly higher risk of autoimmune disease, chronic inflammation, IBS, fibromyalgia, and early death. This is not metaphor. This is physiology. In this episode Dr. Connie connects the science to her own story — 25 years…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Connie Cheung

Topics covered

• chronic illness
• people pleasing
• family dynamics
• women's health
• stress and physiology

Keywords

• chronic stress
• autoimmune disease
• IBS
• fibromyalgia
• kidney transplant

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