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257. Why Nothing Worked for Her Chronic Illness (Until This Shift) with Allie Chandler | Jane Hogan

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Wellness By Design
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Summary

Healing chronic illness often involves more than treatments… it requires understanding the nervous system, mindset, and the body's capacity to recover when it feels safe. What if the path to healing isn't about doing more, but about doing things differently and starting with the nervous system? Join me and my guest, Allie Chandler, founder of Upsell Health and wellness marketing strategist, to learn more about her decade-long healing journey through chronic symptoms, misdiagnosis, and ultimately nervous system recovery. 👉 Download my free guide to understand why pain persists: https://www.thewellnessengineer.com/whypainpersists Struggling with sleep? Wear blue-light-blocking glasses in the evening to help prepare your nervous system for better sleep. Save 10% at Vivarays with this link: https://vivarays.com/bydesign In this episode, you'll learn: ⏰ 00:00 - Introduction ⏰ 02:29 - Understanding Lyme Disease and POTS ⏰ 13:10 - The Role of Perfectionism and Pressure ⏰ 18:26 - Navigating the Path to Recovery ⏰ 35:53 - Empowering Patient Archetypes for Healing ⏰ 43:24 - The ONE thing you can do to activate self-healing Check out Allie Chandler's Bio: Allie Chandler is the founder of Upsell Health, where she helps functional medicine practitioners and wellness brands scale to $2-10M+ through marketing that feels as natural as the healing they provide. Her approach? Data-driven strategies delivered with heart, creating connections that convert without feeling salesy. Her path into wellness marketing began in 2013 while teaching high school creative writing, when a trip to Europe led to sudden illness in Amsterdam. This began an eight-year health journey with chronic Lyme disease, mold toxicity, and "normal" test results despite severe symptoms. She experienced being bedbound,…