I love Sarah Blondin for her steady, wise, and calming guided meditations I find on an app called Insight Timer. In this podcast, I talk about a guided meditation I heard recently and what resonated and applied to me. I hope you find some "new life" in your own life and health that is faced with inevitable change.

Our bodies!! Our bodies are how we make decisions and express ourselves. Our bodies are also diseased and hurting. How we see this duality is very important.

We are so used to splitting our identities and putting on a brave face. We work to hide the aspects of our life that are marred by our symptoms. Listen to see why we might just want to own it all.

We are wired to think more about what we want than what we have, what we can't do more than what we can. This episode seeks to turn that tendency upside down. The book I reference in the episode is Being Mortal by Atul Gawande.

This episode shares an insight about what happens to our eating goals when we enter into social situations like holiday dinners, baby showers, or any other place where we are enjoying food AND other people.

Due to illness, an accident, or some other unexpected event, if you find yourself needing to change a lot about your life, you'll want to up-level your resilience by listening to the secret of self-reinvention in this short episode.

It's a hallmark experience for us with chronic illness to finally reach some momentum with a routine and then lose progress because of a flare up, virus, injury, or other issues. But it's ALSO a hallmark for us to get back up again and start over. How incredibly powerful.

Can you reinvent yourself and still be happy after your symptoms show up? Today's interview with Kate Pearce of @katepearcevintage was a lively discussion on the process of shifting mentalities and how to get up from ground zero over and over when you live with chronic illness.

One of the unfortunate byproducts of being dependent on others AND having memories of a life before our symptoms started and then comparing it to our new life is GUILT. Let's change that, shall we?

Truth: We are sick and we don't have to hate it. I don't believe in fake positivity or in being negative ALL the time. So in between those two states, here's the middle ground where I like to be!