Reframing Chronic Illness

With Laura Leigh Chapman : On Connection, Communication & Embracing Your Whole Self | 11


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Having open, honest, compassionate conversations with your closer and wider circles is something that many living with a chronic illness struggle with, for fear of being met with judgement, expectation and a lack of understanding about their lived experience.

Today I’m chatting to Laura Leigh Champman, a genius communications mentor about how to have these conversations in open, constructive ways. Plus some other wonderful things which you can read about in the show notes.

Trigger warning: contains a discussion about Laura's burns accident.

YOU CAN FIND LAURA HERE:

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@lauraleighchapman on Instagram

Her Clear and Confident Creatives Facebook group

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EPISODE NOTES:

2:43 - What is means to show up as your whole self.

3:49 - How that connects to living with a chronic illness.

5:06 - Connection and finding your right people to help you on a journey of acceptance and embracing who you are.

07:01 - Help and support when breaking free from the chronic illness struggle cycle.

08:52 - Reclaiming the word ‘fat’.

10:20 - Both losing and redefining the relationship you have with yourself.

11:23 - The power of finding people who are like you.

13:41 - TW, burns accident.

15:04 - Having open conversions and how to keep an evolving dialogue going.

19:29 - The important part of living with a chronic illness that is so ignored.

21:35 - What illness and medical facing systems can strip you of.

23:45 - Taking responsibility for the bigger picture.

25.21 - Reconnecting yourself with all the parts of you, and how your chronic illness can help you do that.

28:03 - Inner dialogue and the way you speak to yourself.

30:44 - The cost of suppressing parts of yourself.

31:57 - Not being a fan of hierarchy; human connection, one human to another. Collaboration over direction.

36:05 - Trying to heal according to someone else’s brief and tick-list.

38:51 - TV that helps you feel your feelings and Schitt’s Creek LOVE!


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