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Episode 024: How Do People Deal With Having Chronic Illness? Stoicism
In this episode I'm considering the question: How do people deal with having chronic illness?Today I'm talking about my mother's radical stoicism and how that influenced my orientation towards my own sickness.
Were...
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Episode 023: How Do People Deal With Having Chronic Illness? Doing Your Best
In this episode I'm considering the question: How do people deal with having chronic illness?Today I'm talking about what it means to be doing the "best" that I can.
Are people doing the best they can?
What if that...
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Episode 022: What's It Like To Have A Chronic Illness? Part 2
In this episode I talk again about what it's like to have chronic illness.
What is it that disease subtracts?
What images or metaphors resonate for me around living with chronic illness?
What considerations have to be...
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Episode 021: What Tips Do You Have For Doctors' Visits With Chronic Illness? Managing Medical Info
In this episode I'm considering the question: What are your tips for managing doctors' visits with chronic illness? Today I'm talking about how I manage my medical information.
How do I log of all my vital health...
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Episode 020: What Tips Do You Have For Doctors' Visits With Chronic Illness? The Right Doctors
In this episode I'm considering the question: What are your tips for managing doctors' visits with chronic illness? Today I'm looking at what a difference the right doctor makes.
Who is the right doctor for my...
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Episode 019: What Tips do you have for Doctors' Visits with Chronic Illness? Pro tip for your visit
In this episode I'm considering the question: What are your tips for managing doctors' visits with chronic illness? Today I'm looking at what can I do to make a visit to the doctor more manageable.
When the typical...
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Episode 018: What Tips do you have for Doctors' Visits with Chronic Illness? Preparing
In this episode I'm considering the question: What are your tips for managing doctors' visits with chronic illness? Today I'm looking at what can be done in advance of your doctor's visit.
I answer your burning...
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Episode 017: How do you Find Fulfillment with Chronic Illness? Contemplative Practice
In this episode I'm discussing the question: how do you find fulfillment with chronic illness? Today I'm talking about cultivating a contemplative practice.
How meditation or prayer can help me quiet my mind.
How...
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Episode 016: How do you Find Fulfillment with Chronic Illness? Connection with Others
In this episode Iām talking about your connection with yourself as a way to find fulfillment in chronic illness.
How is fulfillment like a dog on a yoga ball?
How do you manage FOMO?
Why is communicating clear...
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Episode 015: How do you Find Fulfillment with Chronic Illness? Connection with Self
In this episode I'm discussing the question: how do you find fulfillment with chronic illness? Today's facet is by cultivating a connection with myself.
How to tend to a relationship with myself?
What is a body scan...
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Episode 014: How do you Find Fulfillment with Chronic Illness? Gratitude
In this episode I am considering the question: how do you find fulfillment with chronic illness? Today I'm examining gratitude.
How can gratitude shift the burdens of chronic illness?
What is tonglen and how can it...
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Episode 013: What's the Hardest Part of Chronic Illness? Hope
In this episode I discuss the question: what's the hardest part of chronic illness? What is the role of hope?
How is hope a double edged sword?
Is life bleak without hope?
An exploration of the difference between...
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