Chronic Wellness

Chronic Wellness

Hosted by: Annette Leonard

Are you one of the millions living with a chronic illness? Our illnesses may be very different, but we have many of the same experiences, obstacles and frustrations. We are all working for a better quality of life...

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Episodes

Episode 048: How Do You Manage Brain Fog? Smart Home Devices

Chronic illness so often goes hand in glove with brain fog. Having tools for handling brain fog is imperative. How can smart home devices be useful? What things can do I use them for in my daily life? How can they...
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Episode 047: How Do You Manage The Guilt Of Chronic Illness? True Comfort

In this episode I'm talking about these questions: What brings you true comfort? What are the things that light you up and bring you joy? When you are the lowest, what nourishes your spirit? We can take the...
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Episode 046: How Do You Manage The Guilt Of Chronic Illness? Get It Out

In this episode I'm examining the ways I manage living with the guilt that is inherent in living with chronic illness. How can writing help expel our guilt? What does being uncensored do for helping me to examine or...
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Episode 045: How Do You Manage The Guilt Of Chronic Illness? Be With It

How is guilt like a hollow point bullet? If I can acknowledge that it doesn't benefit me or those I'm feeling it for/about, what can I do about the guilt I feel? What happens if I sit with the discomfort of my...
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Episode 044: How Do You Manage The Guilt Of Chronic Illness? Expose It

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Episode 043: Do You Have A Lot Of Guilt With Chronic Illness? Who Benefits?

Who benefits from me feeling guilty? How can I change my practices? Do I benefit from feeling guilty? Do the people I'm feeling guilty for? These are the questions I'm examining in today's episode.
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Episode 042: Do You Have A Lot Of Guilt With Chronic Illness? Surviving

Outliving predicted expiration dates and others who have illnesses in common with me but have not as lucky, I have the typical survivor's guilt. But then I have another shade of guilt -- one that tells me if I would...
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Episode 041: Do You Have A Lot Of Guilt With Chronic Illness? Showing Up

Because chronic illness shifts identity and how I move through the world, that has implications for me and my experience of guilt. In this video I examine these questions and more: When I feel unreliable, how does...
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Episode 040: Do You Have A Lot Of Guilt With Chronic Illness? The Small Stuff

In this episode I'm addressing the question "do you have a lot of guilt with chronic illness?" I'm looking at these questions: How do my limitations impact others? How do the little things, the minutiae add up? In...
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Episode 038: What Are The Gifts Of Chronic Illness? Connecting To My Body

In today's episode I'm talking about the gifts chronic illness has offered me. One of these gifts has been cultivating better connections to my physical self. How does illness push me to shift into my physical...
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Episode 038: What Are The Gifts Of Chronic Illness? Getting My Needs Met

In this episode I'm discussing the ways in which chronic illness has brought me different gifts, today's gift: learning how to get my needs met. I'm the expert on me. While I have LOTS of good help, I have to drive...
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Episode 037: What Are The Gifts Of Chronic Illness? Friendships And My Natural Resources

In today's episode I'm talking about some of the gifts of chronic illness and exploring the gift of permission. How did I use sick as an out when I wasn't strong enough to say "no" when I needed to? How can I hold...
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