Today is all about how to get good guidance! In seeking sound, love-filled guidance we can learn to have more grace for ourselves and others. Elise also debuts the title of her future memoir, kinda sorta shares the best smoothie recipe ever, and shares the good and the bad of her vacation to Retiree Land. Follow along this week on Instagram @chron_ickpodcast.

Like any true Liberal Arts student, Elise makes an acronym for how to establish a daily practice for building your “Grace Muscle.”

This episode is about FUN! Okay, and it’s about how viewing pain as a teacher is super harmful. We’re going to laugh all the way through it, and then we’re gonna go bring Celine Dion Energy to the rest of our week. Spotify isn’t working, so look up “River Deep, Mountain High” and dance with me after listening to this episode!

“Doing the Work” is so buzzwordy and cliche, and although Elise would rather be a True Crime Podcaster, she’s talking doing work, on yourself, for yourself, by yourself. Oh, and she has a third autoimmune disease and she’ll tell ya all about it...sort of.

This one features Maury Povich. Just kidding, but this episode truly has drama worthy of a Maury episode! In the midst of crazy, Elise has learned a few things about how toughness isn’t the same as strength, and why - for physical and emotional health - toughness has got to go for good.

Elise hiked the Flatirons and tore the labrum in her left shoulder...and found it to be a joyful experience? Find out why Elise has new hope for her painful, unpredictable life and why there is hope and joy for your experience too.

It’s a doozy, Elise definitely isn’t qualified, but she’s doing it anyway - no take-backs. This is a HUGE, scary goal but it’s going to be so much fun (!!!), and hopefully it will inspire you to make your own shoot-for-Pluto health goal.

When we think “health goals,” too often, we think calorie counting or numbers on a scale. To really achieve better health, we have to leave diet culture and societal norms behind to dream up bigger health goals! Today’s episode also feature a new segment: “Good News & Good Stuff” to help you on your way to feeling well.

Chronic pain and suffering isn’t always physical - it can be emotional too. When we experience hard suffering, we tend to “harden” physically and emotionally. What if we worked on “softening” instead? What could that mean for our own pain and for the pain we cause others out of our own pain?

Yep! It’s true - we all have anxiety, especially while dealing with chronic illness and pain, and extra-especially when we’re “in the waiting.” In this episode, Elise finds a self-coaching model to help us figure out where our anxiety actually comes from and where anxiety will eventually lead us (1:57) She also shares the amazing ways YOU, the listeners, handle anxiety in a healthy way (26:54).