Decode Your Diagnosis

Decode Your Diagnosis

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Listening to What the Body Is Really Saying

Research Edition - SFE 06 Safeera Hussainy

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Paul Cobbin and Safeera Hussainy
Dec 24, 2025
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Safeera’s experience reflects what many patients live through: escalating treatments, limited explanations, and a growing sense that something important is being overlooked.

This conversation is about slowing down enough to understand what the body is signalling, and how clarity changes everything.

When I looked at the research on patient self advocacy, I recognised the pattern immediately. People do better when they are heard and worse when they are dismissed.

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Safeera Hussainy
Writer and award-winning educator. Only daughter of South Asian parents. I help South Asian women from immigrant families navigate adversity and find their voice, so they can go from merely surviving to truly thriving.
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