Calling In Sick
By Just Media
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Episodes: 112
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Welcome to the Calling in Sick, hosted by Alex Wildeson and produced by Just Media. On this podcast, Alex shares her unfiltered personal journey battling several autoimmune and chronic conditions including Polyarteritis Nodosa (PAN) Vasculitis, Mixed Connective Tissue Disease (MCTD) / Lupus, Endometriosis, and Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). She also provides practical “how-to” guides, explores hot topics, and welcomes other warriors, medical professionals, advocates and creators on the show to shed light on the latest healing modalities, promising treatments, and myth bust popular misconceptions and trendy health hacks. Tune in for some laughs, tears, and growth… but stay for the camaraderie and community. You can engage with Alex and the community through social media @callinginsickpod. We promise, you don’t need a doctor’s note for this one!
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Pregnancy Myths Busted: Sushi, Sleeping & Sharing the News Early | Q&A with Dr. Shevell (MFM, OBGYN)
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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Everything You Need to Know About High-Risk Pregnancy (ft. Dr. Tracy Shevell, MFM OBYGN)
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Jun 22, 2026 |
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We're having a BOY!!! + our first trimester recap
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Jun 15, 2026 |
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How to exercise with an achy body || Ask Alex with Dr. Reyes
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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The Most Underutilized Tool in Women's Health? Pelvic Floor PT (ft. Dr. Taylor Reyes)
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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Your Hormones Are Why Your ADHD Gets Worse Every Month | Ask Alex with Dr. Brighten
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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Endometriosis Guide: How to get Diagnosed, Treatment Options & Co-morbidities, with Dr. Jolene Brighten
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Jun 01, 2026 |
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The Communication Framework That Saved Us During My First Trimester | Ask Alex
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May 27, 2026 |
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How My Chronic Illness ACTUALLY Prepared Me for Pregnancy
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May 25, 2026 |
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Ticks Are On the Rise: Everything you NEED to Know About Lyme Disease RIGHT NOW! (ft. Ali Moresco)
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May 20, 2026 |
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Got Bit By a Tick? Here's Exactly What To Do: The 411 on Lyme Disease (ft. Ali Moresco)
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May 18, 2026 |
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Motherhood with Chronic Illness | Q&A with Cortney Gensemer
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May 13, 2026 |
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How Research is Changing the Future for Chronic Illness Patients (ft. Cortney Gensemer)
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May 11, 2026 |
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WE’RE PREGNANT!! + how my chronic illness is doing
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May 04, 2026 |
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Revisit: Starting a Family with Chronic Illness
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Revisit: My Motherhood Journey with Chronic Illness: IVF, Surgery Setbacks & Hope After Loss
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Diets & Wellness Advice That Can Actually Harm Chronic Illness Patients (ft. Mickey Trescott)
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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AIP Diet Explained: What It Is, How It Works + Where to Start (w/ Mickey Trescott)
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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The Conversation Chronic Illness Patients Are Terrified to Have With Family (ft. Shamekka Marty)
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Medical Gaslighting, Racial Bias & a Kidney Transplant: Shamekka Marty's Unfiltered Chronic Illness Story
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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The Truth About Sushi, CBD, and Hair Dye During Pregnancy; Q&A with Dr. Natalie Crawford
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Trying to Conceive With Chronic Illness (ft. Dr. Natalie Crawford)
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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Brands Ignore the Chronic Illness Community; Q&A with Ashton McGrady
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Accessible Beauty: The Billion-Dollar Market Beauty Brands Ignore (ft. Ashton McGrady)
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Inside a hospital stay with a chronic illness (my worst one yet)
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Talking About Chronic Illness Is Awkward; Q&A with Jenna Gestetner
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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How to Build Wellness Habits When You're Chronically Sick
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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"I feel like a burden to everyone I love... now what?" | Ask Alex Q&A
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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How Comedy Helped Gary Gulman Survive Depression
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Are you a non-compliant patient?! Medical Language Decoded | Ask Alex Q&A
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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What Happens If Your Doctor Makes a Mistake?
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Trying to Have a Baby with Chronic Illness: Ask Alex Q&A
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Trying to Have a Baby with Chronic Illness
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Traveling With Chronic Illness (Food, Allergies, Compression & Long Flights): Ask Alex Q&A
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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How to Travel with a Chronic Illness During a Flare-Up (My London Trip)
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Navigating Dating, Work & Duvet Days with Chronic Illness (ft. Caroline Cray): Ask Alex Q&A
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Allergic to Everything: Navigating life with MCAS (ft. Caroline Cray)
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Navigating My 30s with a Chronic Illness: Botox, IVF and Hospital Trips
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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How Stress, Trauma, and the Lack of Safety Shape Chronic Illness (ft Dr. Sula Wingassen)
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Lessons on Healing From a Doctor Living With Chronic Illness (ft. Dr. Tracy Shevell)
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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How Chronic Illness Redefines What Actually Matters, with Tara Rule
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Ask Alex: The Chronic Illness Questions Everyone is Afraid to Ask
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Making Invisible Illness Visible: Sara Levitt Walks the Runway with an Ostomy Bag
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Chronic Pain Isn’t a Moral Failure: Samantha Duran on Pain, Stigma & Survival
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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A Look Into Two Months of Medical Testing
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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How to Work Smarter (Not Harder) With Chronic Illness
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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The Chronic Illness Problem No One Warned Us About: Not Being Believed
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Your Hormones Could Be the Missing Link in Your Chronic Illness (with Dr. Tassone)
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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I Tested My Own Chronic Illness Rules… Here’s What Happened
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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What My Latest Health Flare Taught Me About Anxiety
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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I Need Boundaries With Myself?! Chronic Illness, Overdoing It, and Knowing When to Sit Down
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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How Pain and Psychiatry Interplay, with Dr. Preston Roche
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Autumn Weimann on Endometriosis & The Mind-Body Connection
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Revisit: Processing Your Chronic Illness and Redefining Your Identity
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Medical Billing Secrets That Could Save You Thousands - With Daniel Lynch
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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How to Travel with a Chronic Illness
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Chronic Illnesses Don't Make Any Sense
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Revisit: Medical gaslighting, gender bias & what to do about it (with Dr. Zachary Spiritos)
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Forcing a Chronic Illness Flare Up: Why I Stopped My Meds on Purpose
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Ketamine Therapy: A New Way to Treat Pain and Mental Health
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Why Being the Perfect Patient Won’t Cure You: The Truth About When People-Pleasing Backfires
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Does gut health impact chronic illness? Everything you need to know, with Dr. Stephanie Culler
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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The Prednisone Survival Guide for Friends, Family and Caregivers
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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I’m Mad: Chronic Illness Flare-Ups, Disease Progression and Treatments Failing
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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One Year of Calling in Sick: Lessons, Mantras & What’s Next
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Revisit: How Chronic Illness Changes Our Definition of Ambition and Drive
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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My Motherhood Journey with Chronic Illness: IVF, Surgery Setbacks & Hope After Loss
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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When to say NO in your health journey (with providers, procedures & medication)
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Prednisone Survival Guide: Side Effects, Rage Stories & How to Get Through It
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Why Chronic Illness Patients are Dismissed, Mistreated, and Misunderstood (with Dr. Erin Nance)
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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The Top 3 Things Trauma Therapy Has Taught Me So Far
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Jake Haendel on Locked-In Syndrome, Pain, and What It Means to Be Alive
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Dr. Karan Rajan on Medical Dismissal, Chronic Illness, and the Rise of Health Misinformation
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Jul 14, 2025 |
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Marital Debates: Backseat Driving, Pet Insurance, and Beige Flags
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Chronic Illness & the Groundhog Day Effect
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Jun 30, 2025 |
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Too Sick for School, Too Sick for Fun? Chronic Illness Guilt and the Rebellion of Joy
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Jun 16, 2025 |
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Sasha Pieterse-Sheaffer on Chronic Illness, Identity & Healing in the Public Eye
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Why Eastern Medicine Works for Chronic Illness, with Dr. Jennifer Ashby
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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What It’s Really Like to Be in a Clinical Study (ft. Cooper)
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May 26, 2025 |
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Dr. Zachary Spiritos on Medical Gaslighting & Women’s Health
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May 12, 2025 |
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Surviving Life Chaos & Chronic Illness Flares - One ER trip and Home Invasion At a Time
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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How Chronic Illness Changes Our Definition of Ambition and Drive
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Kwame Appiah (Love is Blind) Opens Up About Chronic Illness and Healing
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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The Blueprint to Making New Friends with a Chronic Illness
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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How to Rest Without Guilt When You’re Chronically Ill
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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Your Productivity Does NOT Determine Your Worth: Redefining Success with Chronic Illness
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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How I Handle the Fear of Flaring & Failing with Chronic Illness
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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What It’s REALLY Like to Recover from Endometriosis Surgery
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Chronic Illness Life Update: Trusting My Body & Navigating What’s Next
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Revisit: My Health Journey & Living with Chronic Illness
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Inside Your Mind: Chronic Illness & The Voices in Your Head
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Medical Burnout and Chronic Illness: Why It Happens and How to Break the Cycle
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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A Chronic Illness Guide on How to (and NOT) Navigate Events, RSVPing and Your Social Life
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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The Secret to Chronic Illness Management: Chronius Care
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Dating with Chronic Illness: Q&A with a Caregiver and Chronically Ill Partner
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Pain Reprocessing Therapy Deep Dive: Helping Chronic Pain ft. Vanessa Blackstone, MSW, ACSW (Part 2)
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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How to Heal Pain with Pain Reprocessing Therapy ft. Vanessa Blackstone, MSW, ACSW (Part 1)
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Actually Helpful New Year’s Resolutions for People with Chronic Illness
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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Understanding Chronic Pain with a Chronic Illness
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Living Undiagnosed: Alex Gray’s Chronic Illness Journey
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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How to Survive the Holiday Season with a Chronic Illness
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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How Creativity Builds a Full Life for Chronic Illness Warriors
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Processing Your Chronic Illness and Redefining Your Identity
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Using Comedy to Cope with Chronic Illness
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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The Chronic Illness ER and Hospital Stay Guide (My Top 5 Tips)
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Myth Busting Supplement Culture with Functional Nurse Practitioner, Aubree Steen
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Olympian Jesse Grupper on Competing in the Olympics with an Autoimmune Disease (Ulcerative Colitis // IBD)
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Oct 07, 2024 |
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The Truth About Dating & Intimacy With a Chronic Illness ft. Ali DiGiacomo (@AnotherDayWithRA)
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Traditional Chinese Medicine, TikTok “Cures” and Practical At-Home Tips with Brehan Crawford
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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Married with Chronic Illness: Meet Alex’s Lifeline, Caregiver and Husband…Cooper
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Chronically Ill & Calling in Sick
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Calling In Sick Trailer
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Aug 13, 2024 |