Your body isn’t betraying you; it’s protecting you with the only language it knows: sensation, memory, and pattern.

In this groundbreaking, deeply validating episode of Beyond the Flare, Supportegy founder and CEO Sue unpacks the neuroscience of somatic memory and why chronic illness often repeats familiar cycles.

This episode offers a rare blend of compassion, mind-body science, and practical tools to help you:

Understand why your body anticipates symptoms before they arrive

Break out of trauma–illness loops using the latest somatic research

Interrupt flare cycles through micro-regulation and sensory re-patterning

Rebuild your sense of safety using evidence-based nervous system techniques

Shift from feeling “broken” to understanding the biological intelligence behind your symptoms

If you’ve ever wondered why your body overreacts, shuts down, tenses, or spirals into familiar patterns, this episode will give you the language, the science, and the compassion you’ve always deserved.

What if the missing piece in your healing wasn’t discipline, it was compassion?

In this deeply human, science-backed episode of Beyond the Flare, Supportegy founder Sue reveals how self-criticism keeps the body in chronic stress; and how self-compassion, backed by neuroscience and physiology, can help you regulate your nervous system, calm inflammation, and reclaim a sense of safety inside your own skin.

You’ll learn:

How self-criticism triggers the brain’s threat response and fuels pain and fatigue

The neuroscience of kindness, and how it rewires the brain for healing

Why the vagus nerve, oxytocin, and gentle touch can literally lower inflammation

Five evidence-based self-compassion techniques that reduce stress in real time

How to stop negotiating your worth with your wellness

This is more than mindset work; t’s medicine.

Motivation is a wave. Alignment is an anchor.

What if your motivation isn’t missing, it’s misunderstood?

In this transformative episode of Beyond the Flare, Supportegy founder and CEO Sue reveals why motivation fades for people living with chronic illness,  and how to rekindle it without force or shame. Grounded in neuroscience and mind-body strategy, this conversation dives into the biology of drive and the art of gentle discipline that actually works.

You’ll learn:

How dopamine and safety interact to create real motivation

Why your nervous system can “pause” drive under stress or pain, and how to retrain it

The Energy Alignment method to match tasks to capacity and prevent crash-and-burn cycles

Science-backed micro-techniques to spark momentum even on low-energy days

How to reframe consistency as self-trust instead of pressure

This isn’t a pep talk; it’s a biological reset and a compassionate call to remember that you don’t need motivation to move forward; you need relationship with your body.

Because thriving beyond the flare isn’t about pushing harder; it’s about aligning deeper.

You don’t calm your nervous system by forcing it; you calm it by listening.

In this gentle, science-backed episode of Beyond the Flare, Supportegy founder and CEO Sue explains how chronic illness keeps the body in survival mode and how to retrain it toward safety, peace, and healing.

You’ll learn:

Why chronic illness keeps your nervous system “stuck on”

The science of safety and regulation; simplified and human

Micro-regulation tools you can use anytime, anywhere

How to stop fighting your body and start whispering calm back into it

If you’ve ever felt wired but exhausted, anxious without reason, or too tense to rest, this episode will help you reconnect with your body in the most healing way possible: through gentleness.

You were never meant to live in survival; you were meant to build something beautiful beyond it.

Thrive Beyond the Flare isn’t a slogan; t’s a movement.

Thriving isn’t about doing more; it’s about doing what matters, with intention, in the body you have today.

You’ll learn:

Why “getting back to normal” is the wrong goal

The new definition of thriving for people with chronic illness

How to partner with your body instead of fighting it

The Thrive Loop: a practical, compassionate framework for sustainable healing

If you’ve ever felt stuck in survival mode, this episode is your reminder that healing isn’t linear, it’s cyclical, intentional, and deeply human.

The story behind Supportegy, and the belief that you can rest and still be ambitious.

Supportegy wasn’t built from a business plan, it was born from a diagnosis.

In this deeply personal episode of Beyond the Flare, Sue shares the story behind Supportegy: how one moment in a lupus support group sparked a movement to help ambitious, hard-working people with chronic illness build lives that work for them, with both compassion and strategy.

You’ll hear:

The moment that sparked the idea for Supportegy

Why “wanting more” after diagnosis is a sign of life, not denial

How the Thrive Loop™ helps people rebuild with clarity and hope

Why you’re not behind, you’re rebuilding

If you’ve ever felt invisible in your care plan, or worried that your dreams ended with your diagnosis, this episode will remind you: you don’t have to give up who you are to honor your body.

Every flare carries grief:  for the plans, the energy, and the certainty you’ve lost. as well as your identity. But alongside grief, growth can also emerge: resilience, wisdom, and deeper self-understanding. In this episode of Beyond the Flare, Supportegy founder and CEO Sue explores the dual reality of chronic illness: holding grief and growth together.

You’ll learn:

Why grief is a natural part of chronic illness

The science of how grief impacts the body

Stories of growth that emerged through illness

Practices for honoring both loss and resilience

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In a culture that glorifies hustle, rest is often seen as weakness. But for those living with chronic illness, rest isn’t quitting, it’s strategy. In this episode of Beyond the Flare, Supportegy founder and CEO Sue reframes rest as a radical act of leadership, resilience, and sustainable success.

You’ll learn:

Why “pushing through” erodes health and productivity

The neuroscience of recovery and nervous system repair

Practical ways to schedule, protect, and ritualize rest

How to reframe rest as strength, not shame

Chronic illness changes your body, but it also reshapes your sense of self. Many people silently grieve the loss of who they used to be, wondering: Who am I now? In this episode of Beyond the Flare, Supportegy founder and CEO Sue explores the identity shift that comes with chronic illness, and how to move from loss to rediscovery.

You’ll learn:

Why illness disrupts identity and how the brain processes it

The role of grief in losing old versions of yourself

Practical tools to rebuild identity beyond symptoms

How to see yourself as more, not less, because of what you’ve lived through

What if your energy worked like money? Every task a transaction, every decision a debit or deposit, every boundary a safeguard against going into the red. For people living with chronic illness, this isn’t just a metaphorm it’s reality.

In this episode of Beyond the Flare, Supportegy founder and CEO Sue] explains how to stop overspending your limited energy and start budgeting, saving, and investing it for a fuller life.

You’ll learn:

The three biggest “expenses” that drain people with chronic illness

How to rest proactively and protect your reserves

Simple strategies to prevent flare “overdrafts”

How to invest energy into joy and purpose so it multiplies

If you’ve been running on empty, this episode will show you how to manage energy like the precious currency it is, so you can protect your health, sustain your career, and thrive beyond the flare.