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A Body Rebels is a lived-experience podcast about sarcoidosis, heart failure, rare disease, chronic illness, and the strange daily reality of living in a body that does not always cooperate.
I’m Tate — a private chef, writer, husband, pet parent, and long-term sarcoidosis survivor. This podcast is not about miracle cures, medical lectures, or pretending a positive attitude fixes everything. It is about the honest middle of chronic illness: the fatigue, fear, grief, humor, stubbornness, absurdity, and small victories that come with surviving day after day.
These are first-person stories about illness, identity, marriage, work, memory, resilience, and learning how to live inside a life that changed without asking permission.
This podcast is for people living with chronic illness, sarcoidosis, rare disease, heart failure, autoimmune conditions, invisible illness, or any body that feels like it has gone off-script. It is also for caregivers, spouses, family, and friends who want to understand illness from the inside.
If you are tired of toxic positivity, pity, miracle-cure noise, and being told to “just stay strong,” you are in the right place.
This is for the sick, the tired, the stubborn, the scared, the sarcastic, the hopeful, and everyone trying to build a life in a body that rebels.
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Chronic Illness and Hope: Why Positivity Isn’t Pretending
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Jul 24, 2026 |
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Our New Theme Song: The Emotional Version
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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Our New Theme Song: The Upbeat Version
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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Chronic Illness, Anger, and Finding the Right Kind of Therapy
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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Outliving a Chronic Illness Prognosis
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Jul 17, 2026 |
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Kindness in Healthcare and Chronic Illness Care
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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The Fake Chinese Song That Became a Chronic Illness Poem
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Jul 10, 2026 |
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Childhood Memories, Chronic Illness, and the Cousin I Never Forgot
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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Chronic Illness, Mortality, and Never Leaving Angry
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Jul 03, 2026 |
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Race-Colored Glasses and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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When Chronic Illness Changes Who I Thought I Was
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Jun 26, 2026 |
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New Name, Same Body: Why My Chronic Illness Podcast Changed
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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The Prednisone Demon: Chronic Illness, Steroid Side Effects, and Survival
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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When Anger Feels Easier Than Hope
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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MiniCast: Chronic Illness and Fear: The Small Habits Your Body Quietly Erases
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Jun 12, 2026 |
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Chronic Illness, Old Friends, and the Cost of Unequal Relationships
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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When Hospital Anxiety Shows Up After Years of Chronic Illness
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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What Three Stone Steps Taught Me About Chronic Illness Avoidance
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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MiniCast: The Hidden Side Effects of Prednisone No One Warns You About
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May 29, 2026 |
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Love, Caregiving, and Chronic Illness: The Spouse Who Helps You Survive
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May 26, 2026 |
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Oxygen Therapy in Public and the Quiet Social Reality of Living with Sarcoidosis
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May 22, 2026 |
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The Waiting Room Anxiety Nobody Talks About: Chronic Illness Test Results and Relief
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May 19, 2026 |
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The Guilt I Carried That Was Never Mine: Living with Chronic Illness and Letting Go
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May 15, 2026 |
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Why “You Don’t Look Sick” Doesn’t Offend Me: Chronic Illness, Friendship, and Looking Fine When You’re Not
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May 12, 2026 |
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The Strange Math of Chronic Illness: What Sarcoidosis Taught Me About Expectations
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May 08, 2026 |
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The Smoking Backpack: Chronic Illness in Public
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May 05, 2026 |
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MiniCast: When the Wild Speaks: The Night a Fox and a Crow Changed Everything
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May 02, 2026 |
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Getting an AICD: What the Surgery Felt Like From the Hospital Bed
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May 01, 2026 |
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The Day the Hospital Treated Me Like a Human Being
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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MiniCast: Stop Saying You’re Allergic to Bees (When You’re Really Just Terrified of Nature)
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Apr 25, 2026 |
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Why I Don’t Say I Suffer From Sarcoidosis
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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When Spring Returns to a Chronically Ill Body
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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MiniCast: The Day I Danced with a Monarch: A Reminder That Nature Still Wins
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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CAR-T, Autoimmune Disease, and the Strange Hope of a One-Time Treatment
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Apr 17, 2026 |
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You Didn’t Deserve This: Sarcoidosis, Shame, and Letting Go of Guilt
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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When Insurance Says No: A Sarcoidosis Story About Unexpected Help
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Chronic Illness, Sarcoidosis, and the Absurdity of Racial Assumptions
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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When the New Pulmonologist Asked About a Lung Transplant, I Already Knew My Answer
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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Raised By Women, Tempered In Kitchens:How Respect Became My Quiet Rebellion (and Why I’m Done Laughing Along)
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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The Dad Who Showed Up: Grief, Sarcoidosis, and the Inheritance of Dark Humor
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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When My Heart Rebelled for Two Minutes—and My AICD Decided to Stay Employed
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Vitamin D and Sarcoidosis: Why “Low Vitamin D Causes Inflammation” Headlines Don’t Tell the Whole Story
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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The Forgotten Days: What Living With Sarcoidosis Taught Me About the Ordinary Moments Between the Milestones
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Chasing Time: A Story From My Earlier Podcast, Pan to Pen
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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The Feather Pillow Lesson: What an Old Story Teaches Us About Words, Reputation, and Living with Sarcoidosis
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Cardiac Sarcoidosis and Sudden Death: The Disease That Can Hide in Plain Sight
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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From Pan To Pen: "Chasing Raindrops"
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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When Faith Turns Into a Shortcut: Why “Thank You, Jesus” Isn’t Always Enough for Chronic Illness.
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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So You Still Think Covid Is Just a Bad Flu? Think Again: Why This Chef With Sarcoidosis Still Wears a Mask
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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From Pan To Pen: Be Patient Cruise
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Feb 28, 2026 |
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The High Price of Staying Alive: Sarcoidosis, Chronic Illness, Insurance, and America’s Health Care Circus.
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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When an Editor is A CROOK: A Cautionary Tale for Writers
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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BONUS EPISODE: From Pan To Pen: A Chunky Monkey Friendship
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Feb 21, 2026 |
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Living With Heart Failure And An AICD
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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The Real Cost of Breathing: Portable Oxygen, Inogen, and the “Pay-to-Inhale” Price Tag.
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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When the Bank Meeting Ended in a Truck Bed
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Gratitude Beats Complaining When Your ICD Is Busy Keeping You Alive (Yes, I Said It)
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Why My Kindle Will Always Win Over Physical Books
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Why Cooking Shows Might Be Ruining Dinner (and Your Sanity)
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Why Self-Worth Isn’t Measured in Dollars: Finding True Value Beyond the Bank Account
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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When Faith Becomes a Wall: Choosing Peace Over Painful Family Reunions
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Roller Skating With Sarcoidosis: Grieving My Old Body (Without Turning It Into a Life Sentenc
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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When Strangers Grab Your Phone, And Take A Piece Of Your Life With It
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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How Quitting the News Saved My Sanity (and Why You Might Want to Try It Too)
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Why I Stopped Watching The Last of Us on Max
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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When Life Cancels Your Walk and Sends a Rainbow Instead.
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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Swimming with Jellyfish: A Childhood Memory of Risk, Wonder, and the Sea
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Stop Saying These “Compliments” — They’re Not Kind, They’re Just Loud
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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Learning to Sit With the Quiet: How Silence Became My Survival Skill While Living With Sarcoidosis
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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When TikTok “Doctors” Go Rogue: Real Healing Isn’t a Trend
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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Dear Prudence, Who Hurt You? When Online Advice Goes Off the Rails and Lands in a Pot of Mush
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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The “What If” Game and the Man Who Didn’t Know He Was Sick Yet
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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The Vacation That Tried to Break Me (But I’m Still Here, Sarcoidosis and All)
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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What You Don’t See: A Chef’s Reflection on Living With Sarcoidosis
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Maybe Your Life’s Purpose Isn’t Huge—But It’s Still Enough
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Why I Don’t Complain: A Chef’s Guide to Surviving Chronic Illness Without Losing My Mind (or My Manners).
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Why I Walked Away From Support Groups (And Found My Voice Instead)
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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When Hospital Check-In Feels Like an Interrogation: A Chef, an MRI, and Too Many Personal Questions
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Losing My Voice but Not My Humor: Living With Sarcoidosis, Symbicort, and a Stubborn Set of Lungs
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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The New Trend in Unhygienic: 72-Hour Deodorant and the Death of Daily Showers
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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The Night I Met My Inner Warrior: A Mini Memoir
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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The $280,000 Question: Do I Change My Doctors or My Insurance?
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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The War After the War: A Chef’s Salute to Veterans, Especially the Forgotten Ones.
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Why I'd Rather Crawl Than Ask For Help: A Chronic Illness Reality
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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I’ll Take My Coffee With Oat milk And Zero Judgement. Thanks.
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Why I Absolutely Can’t Stand Halloween (And What It Says About Us)
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Silence, Sass, and Self-Control: How I Learned Not to Clap Back at Every Rude Receptionist
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Why I Ditched PillPack: The Truth About Mail-Order Pharmacies and Medication Chaos.
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Rediscovering Joy: Why Asterix & Obelix Became My Unexpected Chronic Illness Therapy
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Cooking Through the Chaos: My Life With Sarcoidosis, Heart Failure & Debut Novel Dreams
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Nineteen Years Since Diagnosis: My Open Lung Biopsy Story
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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About Me
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Official Trailer — A Body Rebels Theme Song
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Oct 20, 2025 |