In this episode of Pivot Point: Strategy for Change, host Nik Michael sits down with Michal LeBaron, founder of Chronic Illness Solution, to explore one of the most overlooked components of healing: self-compassion and the nervous system’s role in chronic illness recovery.

Michal shares her extraordinary journey from being bedridden with autoimmune and genetic disorders to fully healing her body by targeting something traditional medicine often ignores—the stress-activated nervous system. Through emotional awareness, self-compassion, trauma recovery, and deep regulation of the parasympathetic system, Michal transformed her health and now helps others do the same.

If you’ve struggled with chronic symptoms, autoimmune flare-ups, burnout, trauma, or the emotional weight of feeling “stuck” in your own body, this conversation offers hope, clarity, and a new path forward. Learn why the nervous system may be the missing link, how self-compassion accelerates healing, and what it takes to rebuild trust with your body.

Years ago, Michal was bedridden — struggling not just with a diagnosis, but with a lack of hope.
Physicians offered no real solutions. Treatments failed. But she refused to accept defeat.

What Michal discovered was far more profound than symptom management. She learned how to work directly with her nervous system — the control center for stress and healing. In doing so, she unlocked her body’s own repair mechanisms.

Now Michal helps others do the same: neutralizing chronic stress, enabling repair, and redefining what recovery means.

Her own pivot point didn’t just heal her body — it sparked a mission to serve others.