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What do you do when the story you built your whole life on suddenly… doesn’t exist anymore?
In today’s episode, I’m talking with abstract artist and former Air Force critical care flight nurse Cheri Carandanis, whose entire identity was built around being “the capable one” — the nurse, the helper, the perfectionist, the strong one. After two brain injuries and a sudden, traumatic loss, that version of her was gone. No more ICU, no more hospice leadership, no more “Cheri the nurse” everyone called for answers.
What came next wasn’t a perfectly curated glow-up. It was panic, grief, depression, EMDR, spiritual wrestles, and a cardboard “canvas” covered in kids’ paint that somehow cracked her open to an entirely new self.
We get into:
- What an identity collapse actually feels like ...
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