In 2020, my body stopped cooperating. What began as occasional episodes of a racing heart, dizziness, breathlessness, and exhaustion quickly became something that changed my life. Within months, I was largely housebound and spending most of my days in bed with a diagnosis known as long covid. Everything I had relied upon disappeared. My health. My work. My independence. My certainty about the future. For the first time, I could no longer push through. What followed was years of navigating chronic illness, fear, grief, and profound uncertainty. Yet within that challenge was an invitation I couldn't ignore. To listen. Therapy became a turning point. It helped me recognise patterns I had never seen before and understand how deeply our thoughts, emotions, relationships, and nervous systems shape our experience of life. Slowly, I began learning something I had never been taught: How to be honest about what I felt. Looking back, I often say that my body spoke because I didn't know how to. The symptoms forced me into a conversation with myself that I had spent years avoiding. And that conversation changed everything.