What does it actually look like to live, heal, and thrive when your physical health has been pushed to the absolute limit?

In this episode, we sit down with Aimee Morrisby, who shares her extraordinary, radical journey of body survival and transformation. Born with a rare condition that left her missing the vital ganglion cells in her digestive tract, Aimee spent her entire childhood navigating severe medical trauma, culminating in a major surgery that left her with a permanent ileostomy and just 60 centimetres of small bowel. 

Aimee opens up about the deep emotional realities of her fertility journey, the profound gift of sisterly surrogacy that brought her healthy daughter into the world, and the terrifying moment she decided to walk away from her career, go cold turkey on chronic pain medications, and radically rewrite her own health from the inside out. 

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CREDITS

Host: Grace Rouvray

Guest: Aimee Morrisby

Senior Producer: Tahli Blackman

Group Executive Producer: Ilaria Brophy

Audio Producer: Scott Stronach

Social Producer: Elly Moore

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What does it actually look like to live, heal, and thrive when your physical health has been pushed to the absolute limit?
In this episode, we sit down with Aimee Morrisby, who shares her extraordinary, radical journey of body survival and transformation. Born with a rare condition that left her missing the vital ganglion cells in her digestive tract, Aimee spent her entire childhood navigating severe medical trauma, culminating in a major surgery that left her with a permanent ileostomy and just 60 centimetres of small bowel. 
Aimee opens up about the deep emotional realities of her fertility journey, the profound gift of sisterly surrogacy that brought her healthy daughter into the world, and the terrifying moment she decided to walk away from her career, go cold turkey on chronic pain medications, and radically rewrite her own health from the inside out.&nbsp;
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CREDITS
Host: Grace Rouvray
Guest: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/aimeemorrisby/">Aimee Morrisby</a>
Senior Producer: Tahli Blackman
Group Executive Producer: Ilaria Brophy
Audio Producer: Scott Stronach
Social Producer: Elly Moore
Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on.
Information discussed in Well. is for educational purposes only and is not intended to provide professional medical advice. Listeners should seek their own medical advice, specific to their circumstances, from their treating doctor or health care professional.

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