Two Much Lyme

Two Much Lyme

By Maddy and JuliaMedicineHealth & Fitness
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Two Much Lyme episodes

  • Navigating Relationships with a Chronic Illness
    Illness puts enormous stress on your relationships. Family, friends, and partners may want to help but not know how, and it’s easy to feel like a burden or for misunderstandings to lead to conflict. With limited energy, those who are sick often have to prioritize themselves and their well-being, but it can come at the expense of time with those they love. Julia and Maddy describe the challenges they face with relationships while navigating chronic illness, and how their relationships have evolved since getting sick.
    48 min
  • Early Careers and Graduate School with Illness and Disability
    Being a 20 something with a chronic illness or disability is challenging for a multitude of reasons, but a huge one is that you’re just starting out. Maybe you just graduated, are starting a your career, or are considering graduate school. Being sick throws a wrench in all of it. Will I be able to handle the stress and workload? Do I need to change career paths? Maddy and Julia share their experiences with all of these questions and discuss what a challenge it is to not compare yourself to your healthy peers.
    40 min
  • Managing College with Chronic Illness
    Welcome back to the Two Much Lyme Podcast! Today's episode focuses on the challenges individuals with chronic illness face while completing their college careers. From infusing medication during class, to flying across the country for doctors appointments, and the frustration of struggling in the shadows, listen for Julia and Maddy's experiences. They provide tips about disability accommodations during college and speak to the decision to take time off. If you are struggling, and would like someone who understands Lyme disease, please visit the Global Lyme Alliance's Peer-to-Peer Mentor Program at: 
    globallymealliance.org/get-involved/mentor/peer-peer-mentor-program/
    Connect with Us: 
    Instagram: @two.muchlymepodcast
    Website: twomuchlymepodcast.com
    52 min
  • Living with Lyme: Stress, Boundaries, and Mental Health

    Living with Lyme disease often includes a lifestyle shift. Lyme can become so imbedded in the brain and nervous system that it causes a myriad of psychiatric symptoms. These symptoms and the damage done to your stress response system can make even little things a challenge. Energy becomes precious and flares are easy to trigger. Listen to hear Julia and Maddy’s experiences with this side of Lyme, and learn how they have shifted their lives to protect their health!


    Connect with us: 

    Instagram: @two.muchlymepodcast

    Website: twomuchlymepodcast.com 


    Donate to the Global Lyme Alliance: globallymealliance.com

    45 min
  • Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Research with Dr. Sellati, CSO of the Global Lyme Alliance

    This episode of the Two Much Lyme Podcast includes an interview with Dr. Timothy Sellati, the Chief Scientific Officer of the Global Lyme Alliance! Dr. Sellati breaks down the most influential GLA-funded studies on topics including the connection between Lyme and neuropsychiatric disorders, evidence of persistent infection, and so much more!

    Donate to the Global Lyme Alliance: Globallymealliance.org/donate-today/


    Research Studies (in the order they are discussed): 

    Dr. Nigrovic's Pedi Lyme Network: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/12/20-0920_article

    Dr. Aucott’s PTLDS work: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735370/

    Dr. Lewis’ Antibiotic tolerance work: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26014929/

    Dr. Zhang’s Essential oil work: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6316231/

    Dr. Baumgarth’s Antibody immune dysregulation work: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22547698/

    Dr. Embers’ Neurological Lyme – spirochete detection work: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2021.628045/full

    37 min
  • Lyme Disease Awareness Month: The Stigma
    The Two Much Lyme Podcast and the Global Lyme Alliance are celebrating Lyme Disease Awareness Month with two episodes specific to Lyme disease. This episode focuses on the experiences of Lyme patients in society and healthcare systems. There is a stigma surrounding a diagnosis of Lyme and tick-borne disease, which often fills patients with shame and frustration as they navigate debilitating symptoms. Julia and Maddy share their personal experiences being dismissed and torn down while at their most vulnerable, and they highlight the burden this places on those suffering and their families. If you would like to learn more about Lyme disease, you can find out more information on our "Lyme 101" episode or at the Global Lyme Alliance.
     
    Connect with us for support: 
    globallymealliance.com 
    twomuchlymepodcast.com 
    Instagram: Two.muchlymepodcast
    42 min
  • Healing Books for Hard Times
    Welcome back to the Two Much Lyme Podcast! On today's episode, Julia and Maddy take you through some of their favorite books for hard times in healing. They talk all things from memoirs to fiction. Let's face it, chronic illness is not easy, but finding words that resonate can be such a relief. If you are searching for that comfort or your next great read this is the perfect episode! Glennon Doyle's, Untamed, and Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen's, Kitchen Table Wisdom, top the list!
    55 min
  • Traveling While Chronically Ill
    In this episode of the Two Much Lyme Podcast, Julia and Maddy dive into the tough realities of traveling while chronically ill. The prep work required, medication packing, the flare up afterwards, and the desperate desire to keep up can be incredibly anxiety producing. Listen now for support, validation, and to increase awareness of Lyme and chronic disease.
    Connect with us!
    Website: twomuchlymepodcast.com
    Instagram: @two.muchlymepodcast 
    Donate and Learn from the Global Lyme Alliance 
    globallymealliance.org
    40 min
  • Humor’s Connection to Chronic Illness
    Julia and Maddy dive into the connection between humor and chronic illness. They talk about how humor can be used as a defense mechanism and comic relief, and they discuss how that duality leads to communication challenges between a sick individual and a caretaker. This episode ends with a few lighthearted jokes about life with chronic illness. “You might be chronically ill if...” send us your answers!
    46 min
  • Intuitive Healing and Truly Honoring Your Body’s Needs- Solo Episode with Julia
    In this solo episode, Julia walks us through a major perspective shift that she has undergone in her healing. In catching us up on her journey since December, Julia describes how she has felt an immense shift in how she views her health and body. Julia is finally at peace in her healing by honoring her body’s needs, listens to what it is asking, and feels as though she is now working with, rather than against, her body in healing. This mental shift has been central as she now focuses on whole body, mind, and soul healing rather than thinking of specific diseases. She talks about her journey with adrenal problems, HPA axis dysfunction and impaired stress response from trauma as the root cause of her challenges, and how she now uses lifestyle, diet and intuition to heal.
    31 min

About Two Much Lyme

From the publisher's feed

Welcome to the Two Much Lyme podcast! Our names are Julia and Maddy and we both live with late-stage Lyme disease. Our conversations focus on the challenges of living with chronic illness through multiple stages of life, including college and early career. For this podcast we are partnering with Global Lyme Alliance, the largest Lyme nonprofit. We will highlight their initiatives, the research they fund, as well as interview Lyme-literate doctors to provide multiple perspectives on a complex disease.