Doctors told Andrea Solanki she had "yuppie flu."
They told her to take antidepressants.
Accept her fate.
And prepare for a future in a wheelchair.
She had other ideas.
These days Andrea spends her time helping people through grief, burnout, anxiety, fertility struggles, chronic illnesses, and major life transitions.
And occasionally talking to dead relatives.
Which wasn't exactly the career plan.
In this episode of The Stronger Stuff Show, Minna sits down with energy healer, intuitive herbalist and longtime friend Andrea Solanki for a conversation that moves from chronic fatigue and burnout to intuition, crystals, dead people, red knickers and the strange moments in life that refuse to be explained.
Andrea shares how severe chronic fatigue syndrome sent her searching for answers far beyond conventional medicine.
That search eventually led her to Reiki, energy healing, herbs, homeopathy, meditation and a completely different way of understanding herself.
But life wasn't finished with her yet.
While rushing into a London office one Saturday morning, Andrea became trapped beneath seven giant panes of reinforced glass.
Alone.
Bleeding.
Unable to move.
And lying there, she heard a voice ask:
"What else needs to happen for you to wake up?"
That moment changed everything.
We talk about intuition, panic attacks, overwhelm, people pleasing, grief, motherhood, fertility struggles, chronic illness, healing, and what happens when you start listening to the quiet voice you've spent your whole life ignoring.
We also talk about dead relatives.
Because for Andrea, they're often part of the conversation.
In This Episode
- The diagnosis that was supposed to define the rest of her life
- Why Andrea skipped school to sit in the woods with her dog
- The London bus she never got on
- Getting trapped beneath seven giant panes of glass
- The voice that changed everything
- Talking to dead relatives
- Fertility struggles, grief and motherhood
- Intuition versus fear
- Why some people ignore their inner knowing for decades
- The crystal that needed its own suitcase
- Why her aromatherapy teacher told her to wear red knickers
- What happens when you stop dismissing what you already know
This conversation won't answer every question.
But it might make you pay closer attention to the ones you've been ignoring.
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