Chronic Wellness

Chronic Wellness

By Annette LeonardHealth & Fitness
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Chronic Wellness episodes

  • Episode 275: We Are Mighty Pt 5
    Mike Porath, founder and CEO of TheMighty.com talks about powerful ways people find one another on the platform.
    He then answers the question, “What would you like people to know about TheMighty.com?”
    He encourages people on the platform to share their ideas and feedback [email protected] and [email protected]
    What is bringing him wellness or lighting up his spirit? Mike shares how he is practicing a bit of self care these days.
    8 min
  • Episode 274: We Are Mighty Pt 4
    Mike Porath, founder and CEO of TheMighty.com talks about his hopes for the future.
    He discusses a study Harvard did with TheMighty to look at whether content was making a difference people using the site as it related to suicide and suicidal ideation.
    How does TheMighty impact its community?
    What is the evidence?
    How do we make the platform more globally accessible?
    The primary thing TheMighty is solving for is isolation, the emotional impact these health conditions have and our tendency to feel lost, scared, and alone.
    Mike also share’s a concrete story of how a crowdsourced solution early in Annabel’s life stuck with him and influenced the founding of TheMighty.
    11 min
  • Episode 273: We Are Mighty Pt 3
    Mike Porath, founder and CEO of TheMighty.com talks about what he’s learned from parenting a child that was born differently than he expected.
    What are their guideposts for parenting?
    What would he say to other parents who are on a similar journey?
    Finding a present-day focus brought relief.
    He also talks a bit where the name "TheMighty" came from and about the roll of guilt and grief.
    9 min
  • Episode 272: We Are Mighty Pt 2
    Mike Porath, founder and CEO of TheMighty.com talks about how The Mighty got started.
    The Mighty isn't about health so much as it's about PEOPLE.
    What has surprised you about the ways The Mighty has grown and changed?
    How have you grown from parenting Annabel?
    What would you tell another parent who had a child born different than they expected her to be?
    10 min
  • Episode 271: We Are Mighty Pt 1
    Mike Porath, founder and CEO of TheMighty.com talks about what it was like to have a daughter born with a chromosomal difference.
    How did The Mighty get their start?
    How has the platform changed from its initial spark?
    In the early days of his daughter Annabel's diagnosis, he found an old PDF on the web with 6 stories from parents who had the same condition as Annabel. He really connected with those stories.
    Their power moved him, the humor and joy, pierced the loneliness. "There's other people out there dealing with this. We can too." That became the crux of the idea for The Mighty.
    How do you build a health community?
    Can stories lead to conversations lead to community?
    12 min
  • Episode 270: PreOp Honesty
    Here's an impromptu episode from the hospital.
    I'm waiting to get surgery.
    I had to get a COVID test before this procedure.
    How was that?
    As I've been waiting for the surgery, my anxiety has been ramping.
    What are my fears today?
    How am I managing those?
    5 min
  • Episode 269: Marital Communication
    How have my behaviors around the particularities had me showing up like I'm controlling or parental?
    What fights have you been having for the whole of your relationship?
    How am I still learning to communicate and take up space?
    How do I still disconnect from my own experience?
    Communication, still at it and having a hard time getting it done skillfully after all these years.
    I'm excited to tell you about the guest I have coming on: Mike Porath, founder of the platform The Mighty. It is a place where those of us with mental and physical health challenges can go to share and support one another through first-person narrative around our journeys, please tune in for my interview.
    8 min
  • Episode 268: Family Ties
    Just more than a year and a half ago, my mother died. I still miss her terribly.
    Our relationship was not always easy, my being gay was a painful and divisive thing between us.
    However, once I got sick, we forged a path with one another.
    Four months after her death, my dad was engaged. While that was shocking, I was ill equipped for this change.
    What happens when dad is not showing signs of dementia or Alzheimers?
    Not wanting to make things worse, how do I support him when I'm across the country?
    My dad is much further along than I knew. He's pretty unwilling to allow my sister and I to support him around these cognitive concerns.
    How do we proceed in a way that protects and honors him?
    9 min
  • Episode 267: Getting Professional Help
    Have you sought professional help in your relationship?
    What has been your experience with couple's counseling?
    How do our patterns of communication still serve or not serve us?
    What communication ruts and errors are we getting into?
    How does our decision to "chose one another everyday," play into our philosophy of getting couple's counseling?
    When did you decide to engage professional help?
    6 min
  • Episode 266: The Laws Of Attraction
    What are the tender, raw, exposed parts of my life right now?
    How does living through a pandemic and the impact of racial injustices keep show up as overwhelm in my world and yours?
    My wife recently told me she has a crush on someone.
    Having survived infidelity together, we rewrote the rules of our relationship.
    When my body, identity, sense of attractiveness, have all taken hits because of illness and pain, this crush and her keeping it from me, have felt really hard.
    How do you navigate crushes in your relationship?
    6 min

About Chronic Wellness

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Are you one of the millions living with a chronic illness or pain? Our diseases may be very different, but we have many of the same experiences, obstacles and frustrations. We are all working for a better quality of life knowing that pain and limitations will be our traveling companions. My name is Annette and I'm the host of Chronic Wellness, a brief, weekly, podcast where we talk about it all: sex, self-care, mental heath, loss of identity, anger, how to navigate health care and have less days that suck so hard.