I’ve so been looking forward to sharing my conversation with Ashley Rippentrop on the podcast! Ashley has an incredible story with living with invisible illness. She shares her story with us as well as her RALLY Method and how that has helped her through her chronic illness journey.

She’s since made a documentary with her husband about chronic illness called Behind The Visible that will be coming out in 2021. She shares how her life living with invisible illness has put her in a space where she can share her experience via this documentary to help others.

Make sure to listen in to today’s episode and head over to follow Ashley so you’ll be the first to know when the documentary comes out!

In today’s episode we chat about:

• Ashley's story dealing with neuropathy from the time she was a kid

• Continuing to have chronic issues with fainting, migraines and other symptoms and finding out she has POTS

• Understanding what POTS is and how it connect with the rest of her health

• How invisible illness affects everything you do and learning how to advocate for yourself and accommodations you need

• The importance of finding purpose in your pain

• Ashley's RALLY Method - Reflect, Accept, Learn, Look, You

• What motivated her to create a documentary with her husband

• More about the Behind the Visible documentary that will be coming out in 2021!

Links and things…

• More Spoons Please

• Behind the Visible website

• Behind the Visible Instagram

• Behind the Visible Facebook page

• Ashley’s Instagram

• Jessie's Instagram

• Chronically Healing Facebook Group