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What if the story you have never told is the very thing standing between you and your own healing?
In this episode, Kathy sits down with Cristina Simmons, an occupational therapist turned publisher, author, and founder of a company that helps everyday people write and self-publish their own books. Cristina shares how twenty years of emotional suppression, a marriage tested by grief and betrayal, and a rare femur tumor eventually became the very material that set her free.
Cristina and Kathy trace the thread from disconnection to embodiment: the difference between a "ground crew" and a "co-pilot" in your life, what it means to finally become pregnant with yourself, and why writing your story down, even if no one else ever reads it, is one of the most healing acts available to you.
This conversation touches on adoption, infertility, forgiveness, and the surprising link between self-devaluation and physical illness. It closes the loop on why reclaiming your story is not an indulgence. It is how you build your new normal.
You will hear about:
- Why Cristina describes twenty years of her life as living "underwater," disconnected from her own body
- The moment she realized her femur tumor may have been connected to decades of stuffing down her own needs
- How her husband’s infidelity became the wake-up call that turned her inward instead of destroying her marriage
- The "ground crew vs. co-pilot" distinction for understanding who really knows your backstory
- Why she believes ninety-nine percent of people who could write a book never do, and what changes when they finally start
- The ripple effect of one woman finding her courage, and how it moved through an entire community
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