Survivor’s Guilt of the Soul: What If Your Disease Is Just a Memory Trying to Heal?
- Karen Di Gloria
- Jul 31
- 3 min read
Have you ever felt like you were carrying pain that wasn’t yours?
The kind that medicine doesn’t explain . . .
The kind that therapy can’t quite reach . . .
The kind that doesn’t start in this lifetime.
Maybe it’s not in your mind.
Maybe it’s not even “just in your body.”
Maybe it’s a soul memory.
What is Survivor’s Guilt?
In this life, it shows up after trauma. A person survives while others perish—and is left feeling shame, confusion, sadness. They question why they’re alive, what they could’ve done differently, and if they even deserve to be here.
But what if this experience doesn’t begin or end in one lifetime?
What if you’re carrying survivor’s guilt from a past life?
The Soul Remembers What the Mind Denies
Your soul may remember war. Famine. A village burned. A child you couldn’t save. A love you lost to violence. A betrayal that shattered trust.
You may have made it out in one lifetime while others didn’t—and now, in this life, your body bears the symptoms of guilt it doesn’t consciously understand.
Let’s be honest:
Most diagnoses are man-made labels.
They describe symptoms, not causes.
They categorize people, not experiences.
They often shame, limit, and disempower.
A Diagnosis Is a Label, Not a Truth
These words:
“autoimmune.”
“chronic illness.”
“anxiety disorder.”
“depression.”
“cancer.”
do not hold your truth. They hold your suppressed pain.
Your soul doesn’t want a label—
It wants to be seen.
It wants to be heard.
It wants a witness.
Disease Is Just a Messenger
What if disease isn’t an enemy to fight, but a messenger of unintegrated energy?
What if:
Your anxiety is unprocessed trauma from a life where danger was constant?
Your fibromyalgia is your body screaming out the pain of abandonment from a life you can’t remember?
Your lupus is unexpressed rage from a lifetime where you had no voice?
Your chronic fatigue is soul exhaustion from lifetimes of carrying everyone else’s pain?
What if these labels aren’t “conditions”—but invitations?
Healing Begins Where Labels End
When we slap a diagnosis on the body, we often stop asking questions.
We submit.
We accept victimhood.
We become the disease.
But what if the disease isn’t an identity?
What if it’s a soul signal?
A divine alarm clock saying,
“Wake up. Go in. You’re more than this pain.”
Why Deny Reincarnation?
Organized religion often rejects reincarnation. Why?
Because if you remember that your soul has lived before—You might start asking deeper questions.
You might start reclaiming your power.
You might realize you are not here to “earn” salvation—You’re here to embody wholeness.
Denial of past lives doesn’t protect us—it disconnects us.
It keeps wounds buried instead of healed.
And buried pain doesn’t disappear. It just manifests as disease.
Healing Is Not a Protocol. It’s a Reunion.
We keep thinking healing is a 30-day plan. A detox. A pill. A protocol.
But true healing starts the moment we stop outsourcing our power and start remembering who we are.
Your body is not broken.
It’s brilliant.
It stores everything your soul hasn’t yet felt safe to face.
That lump in your throat?
That tightness in your chest?
That diagnosis?
It’s your body saying:
“Please, go within. Meet me there. Feel me. Love me. I’m not here to punish you—I’m here to release what was never yours to carry.”
This Is the New Medicine
The next level of healing isn’t just physical or mental.
It’s energetic. Ancestral. Cellular. Spiritual.
It’s reclaiming:
Your soul’s right to evolve without shame.
Your body’s wisdom to store and transmute energy.
Your truth—without labels, without fear, without apology.
You Are Not a Diagnosis. You Are a Remembering.
Let this truth be your medicine:
“Your diagnosis is not your identity. It is the language of your body helping your soul come home to itself.”
This is not about blame.
It’s about choosing to go within and meet the wounds that weren’t healed last lifetime, so you don’t carry them into the next.
Let this post be your permission slip:
To stop labeling.
To start feeling.
To stop fearing.
To start remembering.
To go within.
To love what you find.
Because that’s the true evolution of the soul.
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With love and truth,
Karen Di Gloria✨
I absolutely resonate with this, Karen. Now, I just need to know how to do what is needed ! Hope you are well !