Alayna Bellquist was bitten by a tick on a trail ride in San Diego. The ER doctor gave her two pills and sent her home.

What followed wasn't just a year in bed. It was a time when Alayna's life was abruptly halted, forcing her to reckon with everything that had come before it.

Alayna is a marine scientist, author, and speaker who spent two decades studying how ecosystems collapse and how they bounce back. Then her own body became the ecosystem in crisis. A chronic Lyme diagnosis forced her to stop racing, stop achieving, and start looking backward at a childhood that had quietly shaped her into someone who never asked for help and never took days off.

What she found on the other side wasn't just recovery. It was a completely different way of understanding what healing actually requires and how the words we use to describe our healing journey carry the most weight of all.

What You Will Learn

• [00:14:30] Alayna's life scheduled to the minute, always racing
• [00:18:00] What parentification explained about her patterns
• [00:28:00] Three years of symptoms she called "stress"
• [00:34:00] Hiding Lyme disease from her family for months
• [00:37:30] Calling on a psychic out of pure desperation
• [00:45:30] Addressing Alayna's true vulnerabilities, not the tick
• [00:56:00] Why Alayna says "cured," not "in remission" when mentioning her experience with Lyme disease
• [00:59:00] A simple perspective on what healing can actually look like

Resources Mentioned

• Resilient by Nature: A Memoir of Curing Chronic Lyme Disease by Alayna Bellquist
• Mia Magik - Alayna's Intuitive Advisor

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Alayna Bellquist

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Chandler Stroud

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