Reframing Chronic Illness

Learning the same lessons over and over again is all a part of this journey we call life, so why does it feel so new and surprising when it happens?! An update on my Year of Adventure, and why it's SO OK that it's not going to plan. Your Chronic Illness Superpower: click here to tap into the wisdom of your chronic illness and start living in the way you truly want to be living, from the day-to-day...

Do I have a problem with productivity, what is ‘productivity’ anyway and why have I applied it to a part of my life that doesn’t need it? In today's episode,I explore how a dormant belief about needing to be productive has thwarted my Year of Adventure, and what I'm going to do about it. LINKS: Your Chronic Illness Superpower: click here to tap into the wisdom of your chronic illness and start liv...

Month 1 into my year of adventure - what lessons have I learned? This is how our dreams, goals and ambitions can be healing by nature. There’s so much we can learn from going for them, but much less to learn by being afraid to try. Subscribe to my Substack On Figuring It Out - https://onfiguringitout.substack.com Your Chronic Illness Superpower: click here to tap into the wisdom of your chron...

What do we do when the dreams, goals and ambitions we've been building up in our head for SO LONG, underwhelm us in reality? What does the chronic illness experience have to do with that, and how do we pick ourselves back up...again? Your Chronic Illness Superpower: click here to tap into the wisdom of your chronic illness and start living in the way you truly want to be living, from the day-to-da...

How do you step into your purpose, dreams and ambitions whilst living with chronic illness, in a way that heals rather than harms? Is it possible to achieve what you want in life, without having to push yourself beyond what's 'good' for you? You bet that's what I'm discussing this season, and I can't wait to get into it. Your Chronic Illness Superpower: click here to tap into the wisdom of your ch...

Listen in as I explore the concept of recognising and celebrating the progress and achievements we've made in our lives, even when it feels like we're not where we want to be yet. Sharing my personal experience with chronic illness and how it taught me the importance of acceptance and surrender, I highlight that the difference in my mindset and approach to life came not from the manifestation of m...

It can be really easy to see chronic illness as a ‘but’ in your relationship, something without which your relationship would be much better. But, as my view stands on most things chronic illness, there’s space to see things another way. I think chronic illness in relationships has the power to be a really positive force in your relationships, and today, I'm discussing why. Your Chronic Illne...

So you’ve heard about chronic illness coaching, but you’re not sure what it is, whether you want or need it, or how it will actually help you. One thing you’ve likely realised as you’re here, is that living with chronic illness changes you and you want help, guidance and support with navigating your way through that. Your Chronic Illness Superpower: click here to tap into the wisdom of your chroni...

I recently met Emma in Ruth Poundwhite’s membership, The Soulful Sales Society *. In her intro post she mentioned about having recently been awarded Access to Work . In short, Access to Work is a UK government grant, designed to help those with disabilities, physical or mental health conditions, or neuro-divergence either get or stay in work by providing the funding you need to access su...

Pleasure as a pathway to healing - can it be? Yes. Is it important that it is? Most definitely yes. In this episode, I explore pleasure as your basic human right, and why it's so important you don't put it on hold for when you feel up to it. Your Chronic Illness Superpower: click here to tap into the wisdom of your chronic illness and start living in the way you truly want to be living, from the d...

I’m finally here with the season 4 finale. I wanted it to be really conclusive but honestly, that’s just fuelling my procrastination. So now I am going to close out the season with a stream of consciousness, what’s on my mind, what’s next, 4 semi-unrelated thoughts that I can’t shake so need to talk about, kind of episode! I'll be back with season 5 sometime later this year, so for now,...

My friends, today is the final guest episode of S4! I will be brining you some kind of season finale next week, but I just want to take a moment today to celebrate and thank all the guests who I’ve chatted to this season…there’s been something of a shift that’s happened, that I’ll talk more about next week. But for sure, that shift has been hugely facilitated by this group of wonderful h...

Today I’m chatting with a long time coach of mine, Ray Dodd. Ray is a Money Coach who helps those who have traditionally been excluded from making money, to make life-changing amounts of money. All without compromising who they are.    Ray is a money coach with a difference. You won’t hear ‘just think good thoughts and watch the money come rolling in’ from her. Ray believes that money, b...

Today I’m speaking with Shana Pareira, and it’s conversation that has the most wonderful underlying message. Born in Australia and an immigrant to the US, Shana is what you call a thieving double organ recipient, having had a Heart and Kidney transplant during Christmas of 2020. She is described as a walking miracle, an answered prayer and has spread inspiration and hope, particularly with th...

In this episode, I’m talking with Ruth Poundwhite, an aligned business coach and mentor who has been claiming and redefining the word ambitious for herself, over the years she’s been running her business, making it work for her in a way that feels good. She helps fellow humans build businesses that are ambitious and intuitive, and that allows them to honour their whole selves, unapologetically. Sh...

Agnes is an artist, science communicator and creator of We Are Stardust - a place where art and science collide to enrich your experience of and relationship with our messy, beautiful universe. She creates artwork that inspires connection with the more-than-human world and online adventures that encourage you to rewild your soul. Based in Bedfordshire, UK, she works from a little office-studio in...

How does sex show up in your life with chronic illness, whether you’re in a relationship or not? Is it something that’s changed over the time you’ve lived with chronic illness and if so, have you ever made that connection? Is it something you’d like to improve your relationship with, your feelings about… would you like to know how to talk about it more openly and honestly, but don’t know where to...

What do dreams and ambitions mean and look like in the context of living with chronic illness and how can we hold them in a way that fosters all of that nourishment and nurturing and softeners that feels so good? I deeply believe that holding dreams and ambitions are a key part of our chronic illness journey and life and healing journey as a whole. The can exist in symbiosis with the wisdom a...

Today I’m talking with Tina Clarke, who is 43 years old. Whilst age is not something I usually mention, you’ll understand why when you listen to this episode, because Tina was born with the genetic disease cystic fibrosis and received a double lung transplant in 2014.  Along with talking about how her diagnosis has changed meanings, how the very information and prognosis surrounding her...

We all know exercise is good for us, but have you ever felt that actually, something about the way you’re exercising and moving your body isn’t feeling good for you ? The whole premise behind exercise is that it’s a stress that we put on our bodies, and it’s that stress and consequent recovery that goes on to build strength and fitness. But in a body where chronic illness or auto immune disease ex...

Background & context are so important, so they will never not be talked about. Importantly because it’s new information to so many, and it really helps in understanding why you might be feeling the way you’re feeling, and therefore the first steps you can take towards feeling the way you want to feel, being the way you want to be and living the way you want to live. There’s a whole unlear...

Over the past two months or so, I’ve been planning this episode as the season finale, and, along with the launch, it’s really encouraged me to think about what I envisage as the future of chronic illness, or more specifically, the future of how chronic illness is seen, understood and experienced. But, whilst this episode was going to be all about how I see the future of chronic illness, I’ve reali...

Beyond using your chronic illness as a guide and Ally and superpower, have you ever considered that it’s the exact thing you need to help you heal… not only in terms of your chronic illness becoming soothed and less active over time, but in terms of nourishing and rebuilding - on multi-levels - and supporting deep growth in your life. Your chronic illness is the key that fits your unique lock, and...

Why does it feel so alien to talk about your *full* chronic illness experience, and how does your body respond when you do? Have we edited the mere acknowledgement of the full experience out of our consciousness, because it feels too hard, painful and uncomfortable to explore? To acknowledge - and talk about - everything that’s experienced under The Chronic Illness Struggle is a pinnacle poin...

There’s a big difference in wanting to fix yourself or your chronic illness - other words used can be things like heal, cure, manage & control, and wanting your chronic illness, or at least the symptomatic manifestation of your chronic illness, to get better. Links: Your Chronic Illness Superpower: click here to tap into the wisdom of your chronic illness and start living in the way you truly...