What happens when hope doesn't save you — but reveals the truth?

In this deeply personal manifesto episode, Dr. Connie Cheung shares how kidney failure, repeated near-transplants, and life on dialysis dismantled a false identity built on performance, resilience, and survival — and returned her to herself.

This is not a story of toxic positivity or glossy healing. It's a meditation on paradox:

✨ gratitude and grief

✨ hope and fear

✨ control and surrender

✨ survival and freedom

Drawing from lived experience as a patient, clinician, and founder of EASE OS™, this episode explores why healing is not linear, why fixing yourself often perpetuates suffering, and why true wholeness comes from integration — not answers.

You'll hear reflections on:

✔️ Why chronic illness often initiates identity collapse

✔️ The hidden cost of resilience and "being brave"

✔️ Fragmentation in modern healthcare and why integration matters

Carl Jung's idea of individuation, lived — not theorized Why many people are living in lives that don't fit — and how to reorient without abandoning yourself

This episode is for anyone who feels tired of trying to get it right, tired of fixing, tired of forcing certainty — and ready to live with presence instead.

Subscribe, follow, and stay — if you're ready to heal without abandoning yourself.

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