Doing the Work: Healing, Growth and Becoming
In this open and deeply honest episode of Life Without Limits, Luiz Faye sits down with Em J Carter for a conversation about what it truly means to do the work of becoming yourself.
Em J reflects on growing up as a young carer and how those early responsibilities shaped her relationship with food, control and coping, including a long battle with sugar addiction. She speaks candidly about the slow, often unseen work of unlearning survival habits and rebuilding trust in herself.
The conversation explores her experiences navigating anxiety, past agoraphobia and dyspraxia, and how she manages her nervous system while continuing to show up for life. Alongside this, Em J shares her varied and fascinating career journey, from working across film and television to life at sea on cruise ships, where she met her now fiancé.
With warmth, humour and honesty, this episode is not about overnight transformation or neat endings. It is about resilience, self compassion, and the courage to keep choosing growth even when it feels uncomfortable.
This is a conversation about healing in real life. About becoming, rather than arriving. And about building a life that feels safe, meaningful and true.
This episode is part of The Inclusive Edit’s Life Without Limits series, sharing real conversations with people who live, work and grow beyond expectation.
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