Her story
Prithee G.
The diagnosis
that became
her greatest
teacher.
At 37, life felt full and steady, until a diagnosis arrived that changed everything. What followed was not a story of illness – it was a story of choice, of radical self-belief, and of a woman who refused to accept a prognosis as her destiny.
2016
Before The DiagnosisMy name is Prithee Govindsamy, and at 37 years old, life felt exactly as it should. I had energy. I had purpose. I had built a stable career spanning 17 years in corporate finance, a happy marriage, and two precious, healthy children. Life was full, familiar, and safe — and I was content in it.
"I was comfortable in my zone because it was safe, it was familiar — and I liked it here."
I was not searching for more. I was not restless. I was simply living — showing up, building, being present. I had no idea that life was about to interrupt everything I thought I knew about myself.
March 2016
The DiagnosisIn March 2016, I became very ill — suddenly and without warning. The doctors delivered words no one prepares you to hear: I might be paralysed from the waist down. I might never walk again.
In June 2016, the diagnosis arrived: Lupus. An incurable autoimmune condition where the body's immune system turns on itself — attacking its own muscles, joints, and nerves, causing debilitating pain that is relentless and invisible to the outside world.
I underwent six months of chemotherapy in the hope of remission. It did not work. By the end of that treatment, I had also developed further complications.
Additional diagnosis that followed.
Over the following two years, my condition worsened steadily. Lung infections. Kidney infections. Acute heart palpitations. I grew weaker, more fragile, more immobile. Holding the wall to walk down a corridor became ordinary. Being unable to rise from bed became my new morning. The body I had always trusted was no longer mine.
When I went to my doctors and specialists with questions about dietary changes and alternative therapies, I was told plainly: there was nothing I could do to make myself better. I was to manage what was, not reach for what could be.
"I knew I had a purpose far bigger than my current situation. I was not prepared to remain as is."
This was the moment everything shifted – not in my body, but in my mind. Before anything could change on the outside, something had to change within.
The Turning Point
I made a choice. And that changed everything.
I had come to a crossroads that no doctor could navigate for me. My circumstances had not changed. My prognosis had not softened. But I had arrived at a decision — one that I would need to choose again, and again, and again.
The Choice
"I want to be healthy and well."
That became my focus. Not a wish. Not a hope. A decision — followed by action. Every choice I made, every habit I built, every morning I showed up for myself had to be aligned with that single statement. I chose to believe in myself, in my capacity, and in the possibility that this diagnosis did not have to be my destiny.
Was it consistent? No. My wheels fell off — many times. But the practice was never perfection. The practice was getting back up, again and again, and choosing the same direction each time. And slowly, something began to shift.
"If you do not make time for your wellness, you will be forced to make time for your illness."
"The feeling of being well will always outweigh the feeling of being ill. That knowing kept me going."
My doctors were amazed. So was I. The results of my choices were rewriting a reality that medicine had said was fixed. I could not yet fully explain it — but I knew I needed to understand it. I went on to study and qualify as an accredited Life and NLP Coach, learning the science of the brain and the profound way our choices shape our lived experience. In 2018, I chose a different path which led to my full remission. My doctors call me their miracle patient.
The Deepest Lesson
What Lupus taught me
Lupus taught me who I was. And in discovering who I was — truly, beneath the roles and the career and the performance — I found who I wanted to become. That discovery led me to purpose. And purpose led me back to myself.
When I understood my own worth, I stopped fighting from a place of fear and started fighting from a place of self-belief and self-love. That shift — from fear to love, from illness to wellbeing — did not happen because my circumstances changed first. It happened because I changed first.
Self-love is not a luxury — it is the foundation.
Boundaries are an act of self-respect, not selfishness.
Knowing your worth changes the way you fight.
Purpose is found in the very place you thought you were lost.
Choice and action, consistently applied, can rewrite reality.
This is not a story about illness. It is a story about what becomes possible when you stop fighting your life — and start learning from it.
Today, I use every platform available to me — as an author, a coach, and a speaker — to share what I have lived and to empower women to grow through what they go through. Not around it. Not despite it. Through it.
ReSourceHer was born from this journey. It is the framework that saved my life — and it is now the framework I walk beside you through yours.
— Prithee G
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