The Chronic Sisters

This week join Jess and Sian as they do a deep dive into burnout. What is it? Who gets it? How do you shift it?

Find your own burnout score: https://monkeypuzzletraining.co.uk/free-downloads/Burnout-Self-Test-Inventory(MBI).pdf

Resources:

Burnout Phases: https://www.thisiscalmer.com/blog/5-stages-of-burnout

This week join Jess and Sian as they share how they really felt about THAT Daily Mail article. The girls pick apart the absurd claims and talk about the damage articles like this can do.

Thank you to Nia @the_chronic_notebook for leading the petition for the articles removal. If you feel as passionate about the removal of the article sign the petition here:

https://www.change.org/p/get-the-daily-mail-to-remove-their-stigmatising-article-about-chronic-illness?redirect=false

On this weeks episode, Jess and Sian talk about toxic positivity, what it is, how to spot it and how to avoid it. We love being positive but its not the only feeling you can have. So lets talk about it!

This Week join Jess and Sian for a god old Q & A. You sent in your questions and the girls answered as only they can, by chronically over sharing.

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This week it’s back to what you all know and love. Chronic sisters, chronically oversharing. This week Jess and Sian take a break from interviews and catch us all up on whats been happening with them over the last few weeks.

The Chronic Sisters and The Psychology Sisters, Kat & Aimee, get together to talk all thinks chronic illness and mental health. This episode the girls take a deep dive into some of the core reasons we feel the way we feel when dealing with chronic illness.

Find The Psychology Sisters:

Instragam: www.instagram.com/thepsychologysisters

Or book in with the Kat and Aimee via their online clinic:

https://thepsychcollaborative.com.au

This week Jess and Sian are joined by Elly from iDNA Health to talk all things genetic nutrition. As a certified nutritionist specialising in genetics, Elly talks us through Jess’s results from her DNA testing and what it all means.

The girls also talk to Elly about her own struggles with her auto-immune disease and how nutrition can help not only heal but prevent.

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Book your consult from anywhere around the world or read what else the team at iDNA Health have to offer here:

https://www.idnahealth.com.au/

This week Jess and Sian get to speak to “Chronic But Iconic” podcast host, Sophie Ward all the way from the UK.

Sophie spent a large portion of her life in the pool as part of the GBR swim team. In prep for London 2020 Olympics, Sophie went to watch her friends compete in the Beijing olympics to also get a glimpse of what she was working towards but that trip was life changing in a far more destructive way that planned.

Years later Sophie learns that an excursion to gaze upon pandas set her on her health battle of a lifetime.

Sophie shares her physical and mental struggles trying to find a diagnosis over 8 years!

If you want to find out more about the work Sophie has done check out her website here:

https://www.sophantastic.org/

or her Instagram:

@sophiewardy

CW: Talk of death and organ donation

This week, Jess and Sian are talking to fellow chronic sister, Jackie Fraser. Jackie has Cystic Fibrosis and shares her story of lung function decline as a newly wed woman on her honeymoon in Bali and when she was eventually placed on the lung donation waitlist.

If you would like to register to be a organ donor please register here to help save a life like Jackies: https://www.donatelife.gov.au/

Check our Jackie’s adventures here: https://www.instagram.com/jackiemoonfraser

After last weeks chaotic siblings quiz, Sian and Jess take a moment to reflect on all the goodies over the last 12 months and talk about where they are now compared to their pre-podcast selves. The girls take a dive back over all the episodes and the key parts they’ve taken away from them, the things they’ve worked on and the ones they still have room for improvement.