A Body Rebels: A Chronic Illness Podcast

By Tate Basildon

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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.



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