Emotional Autoimmunity: Dealing with the emotional issues of chronic illness
Chronic illness completely changes your life but nobody talks about or even acknowledges all of the emotional issues that come with it and I'm on a mission to change that. As a therapist living with four autoimmune diseases, I know exactly what the issues are and more importantly, how to overcome them. From medical gaslighting, dealing with grief and all of the 'what if' thoughts that keep you awake at night, let's talk about the emotional issues of chronic illness and what you can do to help yourself.
- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 73
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Episode 13: Jaime Hartman. Crohn's, surgery and creating a new life.
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Jaime Hartman was just 19 years old when she was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease. After going in for a necessary bowel resection, which later turned septic, Jaim…
Episode 12: Episode 12: Beth Chen. Chronic illness, pregnancy, Motherhood and healing.
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After developing an illness on a cruise, Beth Chen's health was never truly the same. She developed multiple, severe food intolerances, that caused enough pain …
Episode 11: Andrea Nakayama: On life, death, Hashimoto's and transformation.
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Andrea Nakayama shares her experiences of her young husband Isamu's diagnosis of a terminal brain tumour, shortly after finding out that she was pregnant. She …
Episode 10: Being told your disease is terminal. Sue's experience with Sarcoidosis.
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At 55 years old, thinking she had decades before her, Sue Holly was given the diagnosis of pulmonary sarcoidosis. She was told by her medical team that she was …
Episode 9: Dr. Terry Wahls. Our choices define who we are
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Dr Terry Wahls shares how she began to slow the decline of her progressive Multiple Sclerosis, to become remarkably better. Terry firmly believes that our choic…
Episode 8: How Bill Gasiamis's life changed for the better after multiple haemorrhagic strokes, brain surgery and hypothryoidism.
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Bill Gasiamis experienced 3 strokes from a bleed in his brain. After surgery to repair the blood vessels, Bill then discovered that he had a thyroid condition t…
Episode 7: Interview with Eileen Laird. Medication, flares, failure and gratitude
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Eileen Laird shares the changes that Rheumatoid Arthritis made to her life including how her blog, Phoenix Helix was created, how she made the emotional transit…
Episode 6: Indira shares her story about her life with Rheumatoid Arthritis
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Indira Shyju remembers waking up, screaming from the pain in her shoulders, that was eventually diagnosed as Rheumatoid Arthritis. She shares her struggle to ga…
Episode 5: Interview with Joanna Frankham feeling ashamed with HS
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Joanna Frankham shares what it was like to live with Hidradenitis Supperativa or HS, undiagnosed for 20 years, being told that she was "unclean" and feeling ash…
Episode 4: Interview with Wendi Washington-Hunt, how Hashimoto's changed her life.
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Kerry speaks with Wendi-Washington Hunt about her experiences with Hashimoto's and the many changes it bought to her life, personally and professionally.
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Episode 3: Interview with Jesse St Jean life with Ulcerative Colitis
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After years of digestive issues, Jesse was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis at age 19 while she was still a sophomore in college. As she was living a very acti…
Episode 2: Interview with Alissa Frazier Life with MS
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Kerry chats with Alissa Frazier about her experience of being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and how it changed her life and career.
Kerry Jeffery is a Coach…
Episode 1: How do you deal with the grief of chronic illness?
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Kerry Jeffery shares her experience of going from "normal and healthy" to disabled and chronically ill with Hashimoto's and celiac disease. One of the biggest c…