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How Betrayal, Divorce & Trauma Wrecked Her Body — And How She Healed

The night before her oldest daughter's rehearsal dinner, Lysa TerKeurst discovered her husband of over two decades had been living a double life. She kept it secret from nearly everyone — and within months, the physical toll became impossible to hide. She collapsed getting out of bed, was rushed to the emergency room, and surgeons removed a significant portion of her colon. When the doctor showed her a picture and asked what had happened to her body, she told him everything was fine. One year later, almost to the day, she heard the words: you have breast cancer. In this conversation, Lysa and Dr. Axe talk through how unprocessed emotional trauma shows up in the body, why keeping pain locked inside accelerates physical illness, and what it actually takes to heal — including how to identif…