S3E5 : On Experiencing Chronic Illness Anxiety + How To Work Through It [Bonus episode]
What is it actually like to live with chronic illness, and why does almost nobody prepare you for anything that you're likely to experience outside the main symptoms?
Living with daily fear, or the feeling of being on edge a lot of the time, is one such thing.
In this episode I talk about the toll that takes on your body, your life, and eventually the severity of how you experience your chronic illness. You've probably guessed it by now, but it doesn't have to be this way! Of course I don't leave you in the lurch - I also discuss my three pronged process to help you work through any part of the chronic illness experience that might not be the best.
I'm not suggesting that all the 'unspoken' information is given at at once - that would be the most daunting thing ever. But there has to be a space where this stuff is discussed in peer groups, with guidance, boundaries and mutual respect.
Knowledge and information = choices. It's why Your Chronic Illness Ally exists!
We need to revolutionise the way chronic illness is viewed, talked about and lived with... are you in?!
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EPISODE NOTES
2:10 - Navigating a relationship in which both of you live with chronic illness.
3:30 - ‘Surprise’ situations that can happen when living with chronic illness.
4:50 - The unknown of what life is actually like living with chronic illness
6:20 - How the ‘status quo’ of living with chronic illness places a heavy load on the nervous system.
8:00 - How do we decondition from this status quo?
9:20 - Why having the information around how chronic illness actually shows up in your life, how it's actually experienced, is SO KEY to learning how to support yourself and your body.
10:00 - How my three pronged approach helps you work through this, helps you support yourself, and helps with that de-conditioning. Finding the things that help you swing out of chronically living within the sympathetic branch of your nervous system, and reconnect with the parasympathetic branch of your nervous system.
12:00 - How all of this makes your chronic illness your ally.
17:00 - Flares and symptoms as checkpoints and nudges.
18:50 - Revolutionising the way we view and live with chronic illness.