Shabnam Rakhiba
Chronic illness coach, author, and founder of Chronic Wellness Lounge; trauma-informed ACT practitioner specializing in supporting women with endometriosis, fibromyalgia, and chronic pain.
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Jun 23, 2026
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In the beginning, I thought that this illness and the recovery was all on my own shoulders.
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It took me a while being on this journey to understand that our health is not shaped just by the symptoms of illness, but there are additional factors around us that's driving ill health.
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For example, we mentioned the dismissal that we get from healthcare professionals.
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And there's so much more that happens in society that keep us sick, right? And for myself, it was this understanding of how trauma, bias, financial insecurity, these can contribute to ill health.
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How there are societal factors, structural realities that drive us towards ill health and keep us there and make us worse.
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