![]() ![]() Non-negotiables for living well and navigating work + motherhood, with a chronic condition.Why it's so important to deeply trust your body and learn to discern what is - and isn't - working for you from medical interactions to conventional and alternative therapies.How long covid is potentially changing the conversation around invisible illness.The medical gender gap and how gender plays a role in receiving a diagnosis and being believed.The importance of seeing and validating the experience of people living with a chronic and invisible illness and making the Invisible Kingdom visible.Her experience and story of living with an invisible illness, searching for support, and the internalized gaslighting she experienced from not being seen by her medical providers.In this episode, we talk about the disproportionate effects of chronic and invisible illness on women, the risks of medical gaslighting, the much needed bridge between conventional and alternative medicine, and what it means to be living on the edge of medical knowledge. Join me for a rich and important conversation on the topic of invisible illness, redefining identity, and finding solutions where you can, with my guest, Meghan O'Rourke, author of the New York Times bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, also a finalist for the 2022 National Book Award in Nonfiction! Living with an invisible illnesses like long-COVID, post-Lyme syndrome, ME/CFS, Hashimoto's, and even high-functioning anxiety or depression, means having symptoms that may not be obvious to others, even though you're suffering, and for which conventional medicine may have little to offer by way of diagnosis, let alone treatment. “It's just anxiety”, “It's nothing”, “It's probably just your hormones”… These are just a few of the remarks that many women with ‘invisible illnesses' hear from their doctors, and even their friends and family. ![]()
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