19/09/2026
🌿🕊✝️TALK WITH SOPHYA — Can Illness Take Away Your Womanhood?🌿🕊✝️
Can PARALYSIS take away your femininity?
Can a Changed Body take away your beauty, your desirability, your dignity or your ability to be loved?
Disclaimer: Take your tissue.
A very raw talk.
Sitting with Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Jesus made me dedicate this special podcast to women.
It was not easy for me to speak about this sensitive, intimate issue.
This is for every woman battling serious illness... whose body has been consumed by illness.
Including me.
The objective of this podcast:
👑 To fix the crown of those Queens battling cancer and serious illnesses.
👑 To fix the crown of those Queens whose bodies have been impacted by illness, or any tragedy, accidents.
The podcast is from my own lived experience and how Jesus helped me to navigate through all these.
«"When I got paralysed, when my body faced paralysis, getting back home, I asked my close ones to destroy all the mirrors in my room and the house."»
«"I did not want to face myself in the camera... mirrors... it hurts... it hurts... to see your body has changed drastically... It is a nightmare."»
«"It impacts your self-love... self-esteem... worth..." But then, sitting with Jesus has been a transformative journey.»
«"I was looking at myself, at my own physical body, through the lens of hatred, guilt, anger, shame."»
«"I was not at ease to be seen by people. If someone would see me and come to me, 'Sophya, I'm so happy to see you'... I would wear a fake smile... and deep inside... 'Kifer to ti bizin trouve moi la?'... It was not against that person... but the fight was me against me."»
«"I struggled with how illness has consumed my body... how it has drastically changed my body as someone who used to be fit.»
But then Jesus changed everything. Jesus brought an inner healing."
«"After becoming paralysed in 2018, while in ICU of SSRN Hospital, my four-year engagement was called off...I was still..... And the people I was friends with said, 'Nou pas pou kve continue kamarade ek toi akoz to ena sa.'"»
(My words on old newspaper.)
"And that was one of the experiences that shaped the way I saw myself as a woman after my body changed."
Sometimes when a woman goes through illness, she doesn't just face the illness.
There are many struggles which come along.
One of the most cruel things is ABANDONMENT.
I faced it.
Some go through... ABANDONMENT and DIVORCE.
Partners leaving them.
Friendships gone.
I have lived the same.
This is cruel.
It hurts deeply.
Now, I'm speaking about this with lots of peace given to me by Jesus.
I want to say:
Illness doesn't make us less of a woman.
For me, it didn't take one second, one day, one year to understand this but yearS.
Years.
I am the living example.
My life has changed.
My body has changed.
Jesus has been helping me through this.
Illness has a way of teaching us many things.
🌿 Who are your people?
🌿 Who is who?
🌿 What truly matters?
But heyyy, let me tell you... let me give you some good news.
There will be beautiful strangers who will join in your illness journey and support you.
People who were strangers and now have a special place in my heart.
Hugs to a Queen whose life was not easy... Laina Burns , who came to hug me when I was struggling in C-Care Floreal.
We didn't know each other personally.
Her parents....Uncle Dawood and Aunty Ayesha, for their love... kindness... compassionate words.
So you see, it took me time to be able to face mirrors, cameras, and do a podcast like... I'm doing right now.
To a Queen who encouraged me to be back on stage AGAIN, Nalini Aubeeluck .. thank you.
To the other Queens, here I would like to tell you:
🌿 Start loving yourself again.
🌿 Start loving your body again.
🌿 Treat it with kindness, love.
🌿 Be gentle towards yourself.
🌿 Be easy on you.
🌿 Wear your makeup.
🌿 Dress up.
The woman within... becoming alive again. 🌿🕊✝️
Sophya
Beloved Daughter of the king
❤️🕊🌿👑✝️
