Your Diagnosis Is Not Your Future: How I Cleared Lyme Disease in 18 Months, with Dr. Carrie Chojnowski | Ep 79

If you’ve been handed a diagnosis and quietly accepted it as your future, this is a different way to understand how the body actually heals.

For seven years, Celinne chased cystic acne across dermatologists, elimination diets, and every remedy she could find. Never knowing the real driver was undiagnosed tick-borne illness. When the diagnosis finally came (Lyme, Bartonella, and Babesia), she’d already been told what most people are told: this takes years to heal, if you heal at all.

Eighteen months later, her labs came back with no trace of it — a result her former client and doctor, naturopathic physician and tick-borne specialist Dr. Carrie Chojnowski, says she’d never seen. What changed the biology wasn’t the medicine alone. She treated the illness as a teacher and cleared the story underneath the symptoms while the science did its work.

In this conversation, Celinne and Dr. Carrie open the full case — how tick-borne illness hides and gets missed. Why a diagnosis was never meant to be a prognosis, and how changing the energetic blueprint of a story can reorganize what shows up in the body. You’ll hear what becomes possible when you stop handing your future to a diagnosis and start listening to what your body is actually saying. Healing Lyme Disease.

ON THIS EPISODE:

00:00 Hear the lab result that stopped her doctor cold

06:17 Trace how seven years of cystic acne hid an undiagnosed infection

12:41 Learn why so much tick-borne illness goes undiagnosed

15:04 Meet Lyme, Bartonella, and Babesia as personalities at a party

26:07 Unpack the “bomb and shrapnel” reason people are told they can’t heal

32:53 Sit with the belief that we choose our illnesses as teachers

40:53 Define the metaphysical — and how it lands in the body

56:42 Reclaim intuition: why no one should hand you your prognosis

1:07:00 Get the testing behind a result that read as “never had it”

KEY IDEAS:

🔥 A diagnosis is not a prognosis: A good practitioner can tell you what’s true right now. Where it goes is still being written — and that part stays in your hands, not theirs.

🔥 The illness came to teach something: Carrie’s question wasn’t “why you,” it was “what did this come here to teach you, and are you willing to learn it?”. The science does its part; the patient does the rest.

🔥 Why people are told they can’t heal: The tick-borne illness is the bomb; the reactivated infections, adrenal burnout, and hormonal fallout are the shrapnel. Treat only the bomb and you never fully heal — which is where the myth comes from.

🔥 Change the story, change the biology: When Celinne cleared the belief and the charge underneath a symptom, the body followed. She watched it reorganize what was happening physically — more than once.

RESOURCES:

Dr. Carrie Chojnowski, ND is a naturopathic doctor and Lyme-literate physician with over a decade in practice. As well as specialty in complex tick-borne illness — science-based, spirit-led. Based in Italy, she sees patients worldwide via telemedicine and from her office in Amherst, NH.

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💡 Mentioned in this episode:

Soul Alignment Meditation — free daily practice to come home to your center and lead from presence:

Dr. Carrie’s Awakening Container — a 6-month deep dive for women into physical and metaphysical healing (drcarrieanne.com)

Related listen: Ep 22 — Creating a Business from Your Soul: A Case Study with Dr. Carrie Chojnowski

Celinne Da Costa is a podcast host, bestselling author, and executive coach for leaders navigating ‘I’ve made it—now what?’ She guides them to redesign their next act: more meaningful, more aligned, more fun… and led by their soul’s truth.

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💡 Shared as one person’s story for education and inspiration — not medical advice. Always work with a practitioner you trust.

Everything in this episode began as something that only happened to Celinne — an illness, a diagnosis, eighteen months of her life. It becomes useful to you because she did the work of turning it into something you can follow and act on. That’s Articulate, her live group program for turning lived experience into a body of work that another person can trust, follow, and act on. One seat left in this cohort, and Transmission II starts July 17th. Apply Here.