Are you or someone you love dealing with a chronic illness? These invisible aliments are on the rise in our modern world, yet so often they are hard to diagnose and understand. Today we explore how to manage your mental and physical health in the event of a chronic challenge by sharing our own experiences. Acceptance, letting go of blame and not over-identifying with a diagnosis are the foundations of management, and arming yourself with knowledge is the first step on the path to healing.

Today we chat about: We introduce the topic (0.50) Sophie’s experience with migraines (1.40) Invisible illnesses can be hard to diagnose & understand (2.45) Sometimes goals have to wait, for the sake of your physical & mental health (4.00) Try not to be mad at your body and rebel against self-care (6.05) Learn as much as you can about your health (7.33) Can you find purpose in the pain? (8.24) Accepting how to live with a new normal and being empowered (9.37) How embracing the pillars can help manage chronic illness (10.50) Learn to let go of blame, you can’t change the past (11.30) Julie’s experience with auto-immune (12.45) Honour your limitations (18.10) Try not to over-identify with your illness (18.30) There are lots of auto-immune theories (19.30) Positive lifestyle changes do help (21.40) Work on avoiding the victim mentality (23.00) Invisible illness can be hard for people to understand, even doctors (25.15) Stress feeds illness, active your parasympathetic nervous system (29.00) Julie shares her metaphor (30.50) Sophie shares her metaphor (32.00) We love to shed positive light on challenging topics (33.20)

References: Stress Episode: https://soundcloud.com/iusetime/23-stress