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As you sit in your home, exhausted, struggling with brain fog, in pain and so much more, social media is often a window into the rest of the world. It is a lifeline to the friends who understand, who are often also at home struggling with the war inside their bodies. There is so much GOOD that has come, and can continue to come from social media.

The trouble becomes that we can struggle to discern reality from the highlight reel that social media is. If you struggle with wanting to feel connected, but also feeling drained by social media, you are NOT alone!

Today's episode gives you clear and actionable ways to manage social media burn out.

When you leave your medical appointments you should feel seen, heard, supported... and maybe even a little bit hopeful. If you DO NOT feel this way, it's time to start buliding a different medical team.

Let’s be clear - you have MANY freedoms in your chronic illness journey.

Today we look at several and encourage you to take control of your life!

YOU HAVE THE POWER TO CHOOSE!!!!

Gall Bladder Info:
https://www.gallbladderdiet.com/gallbladder-removal-side-effects/

https://www.instagram.com/gallbladder.nutritionist

CDC - https://www.cdc.gov/healthyschools/chronicconditions.htm

Raw Milk - https://www.nourishwithkristin.com/blog/raw-vs-pasteurized

Grass Fed Beef - https://wellnessmama.com/health/grass-fed-beef/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CuQG-JiuNJ_/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Dr. Whitney Donahue https://www.drwhitneydonohue.com/

https://www.instagram.com/drwhitneydonohuend

Endocrine Disruptors: https://www.endocrine.org/topics/edc/what-edcs-are/common-edcs

Banned in other countries: https://foodrevolution.org/blog/banned-ingredients-in-other-countries/

https://marketrealist.com/food-industry/us-foods-banned-other-countries/

Alt Milk

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/non-dairy-milks-healthier-thats-175400639.html

https://www.sheknows.com/health-and-wellness/articles/1117683/alternative-milks/

Follow the money https://www.science.org/content/article/hidden-conflicts-pharma-payments-fda-advisers-after-drug-approvals-spark-ethical

Your disease can affect everything in your life. Not just what you can do physically, but your time and your emotional limitations as well. So it is absolutely going to impact your parenting. Parenting is the most all encompassing thing you can do in your life, also affecting everything.

When was the last time you thought to yourself - maybe I’m a bad parent because of the limitations of my disease? Or maybe it was more, “My kids deserve a better parent, a more involved parent, a parent who can do more with them.”

If you're an overhwlemed parent, or a someone contemplating pregnancy and parenthood and you're dealing with a chronic illness - TODAY'S EPISODE IS FOR YOU!

Follow Allie: https://www.instagram.com/disability_dame/

Follow Bethany Hamilton: https://www.instagram.com/bethanyhamilton/

Dr. Dan Siegel: https://drdansiegel.com/

The Whole Brained Child Book: https://a.co/d/2lya80t
 
Joe Newman: https://www.raisinglions.com/

Raising Lions Book: https://a.co/d/9w18yKI

Emotional Intellegence and Success: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2017/11/07/the-little-known-relationship-between-emotional-intelligence-and-success/

Follow Morgan Burke: https://www.instagram.com/morganburkewrites/

The Adoption Process: https://rumble.com/v17o73x-the-adoption-process-morgan-burke.html

6+ months wait is unacceptable.

The issue is that by the very nature of having a chronic illness, your body and your life is unpredictable. Even if your appointment is a follow up or continuing care with a medical provider, it can be difficult to make sure you make it to these appointments. Throw in the pandemic and the post pandemic challenges and it’s even more difficult to make it. Have a cough, don’t come to the office. Have a fever, don’t come to the office… you get it. So as you’re struggling and you really REALLY need to see this specialist, you have even more barriers to entry than many other people.

The challenge is that not making it to these appointments can have major consequences on your health and even your long term quality of life, but in our broken health care system you miss this appointment and you may not be able to get back in for 6 months or longer.

They have a DUTY to provide care for you. Either your established doctor or your referring doctor. When these delays happen - there are ways to get support until you can be seen.

Boundaries are VITAL for your mental, emotional and physical health - chronic illness or not. Today I dive into why you need boundaries and easy ways to implement them.

I know the pain of realizing people you believed were part of your inner circle separating themselves from you. They don’t want to see what you share online. The reality of what you’re going through makes them feel a certain way.

Some people won’t want to see or hear it. Some people will walk away. Some people will unfriend and unfollow… and it sucks and it hurts… and, it’s also okay.

Episode 179 - They Won't Understand and You Need to be Okay with That
https://fightlikeamama.libsyn.com/untitled-16

Episode 56 - The Power of Vulnerability
https://fightlikeamama.libsyn.com/ep-56-the-power-of-vulnerability

A breakdown of what Behcet's Disease and what you need to know as a patient as well as insight from patients on life with Behcet's.

Here's what you'll find in this episode:

• What is Behcet's?
• What are the classic symptoms of Behcet's?
• How is Behcet's Diagnosed?
• What Causes Behcet's?
• Who gets Behcet's?
• How is Behcet's Treated?
• Side Effects from Medications
• Life with Vasculitis
• Patient to Patient

Cat's Episode: https://fightlikeamama.libsyn.com/ep-118-vasculitis-interview-with-behcets-disease-warrior-with-cat-ray

Cat's Podcast: https://risingfromtheillness.libsyn.com/

Cat on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/risingfromtheillness/

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Sources:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/behcets-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20351326

https://www.hopkinsvasculitis.org/types-vasculitis/behcets-disease/

https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/848/behet-disease

A breakdown of what Cutaneous Small-Vessel Vasculitis (CSVV) and what you need to know as a patient as well as insight from patients on life with CSVV.

Here's what you'll find in this episode:

• What is Cutaneous Small-Vessel Vasculitis?
• History of Cutaneous Small-Vessel Vasculitis?
• What are the symptoms and signs of Cutaneous Small-Vessel Vasculitis?
• How is CSVV Diagnosed?
• How is CSVV treated?
• Who gets CSVV?
• Life with Vasculitis
• Patient to Patient

Please don't forget to click that subscibe button whereever you listen to the podcast and do me a HUGE favor and leave a review! These two things help others find the podcast, find our community, and feel a little less alone in their journey through life with chronic illness!

Join us on Instagram:
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Sources:

https://dermnetnz.org/topics/cutaneous-small-vessel-vasculitis

https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/musculoskeletal-and-connective-tissue-disorders/vasculitis/cutaneous-vasculitis

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK482159/

A breakdown of what Cryoglobulinemia and what you need to know as a patient as well as insight from patients on life with Cryoglobulinemia.

Here's what you'll find in this episode:

• What is Cryoglobulinemia?
• What are the symptoms of Cryoglobulinemia
• What Causes Cryoglobulinemia?
• How is Cryoglobulinemia treated?
• Life with Vasculitis
• Patient to Patient

Please don't forget to click that subscibe button whereever you listen to the podcast and do me a HUGE favor and leave a review! These two things help others find the podcast, find our community, and feel a little less alone in their journey through life with chronic illness!

Join us on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/teamvasculitis

Join the Email List:
https://teamvasculitis.com/team-vasculitis-email

Sources:

https://www.hopkinsvasculitis.org/types-vasculitis/cryoglobulinemia/

https://www.uptodate.com/contents/overview-of-cryoglobulins-and-cryoglobulinemia

https://ashpublications.org/blood/article/129/3/289/36030/How-I-treat-cryoglobulinemia

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/cryoglobulinemia/symptoms-causes/syc-20371244

Meet Lauren! A Vasculitis warrior who has managed her career at a large corporation, with two daughters, under the age of 5 at the time of diagnosis, AND a rare disease that caused permanent damage to organs as she sought answers.

Watch her talk here:
https://rumble.com/v2nz4m8-navigating-a-career-and-motherhood-with-a-chronic-illness.html

Please don't forget to click that subscibe button whereever you listen to the podcast and do me a HUGE favor and leave a review! These two things help others find the podcast, find our community, and feel a little less alone in their journey through life with chronic illness!

Join us on Instagram:
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Join the Email List:
https://teamvasculitis.com/team-vasculitis-email

Today's episode is a special one! Today for the 2nd Annual Team Vasculitis International Vasculitis Awareness Day Symposium Kayla shares with you her journey with Vasculitis, POTS, Fibromyalgia and more... and not only how fitness helps her every day, but how it actually takes much of her pain away.

Follow Kayla at: https://www.instagram.com/autoimmune_fitwarriorsoul

Please don't forget to click that subscibe button whereever you listen to the podcast and do me a HUGE favor and leave a review! These two things help others find the podcast, find our community, and feel a little less alone in their journey through life with chronic illness!

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Join the Email List:
https://teamvasculitis.com/team-vasculitis-email

A breakdown of what Cogan's Syndrome and what you need to know as a patient as well as insight from patients on life with Cogan's.

Here's what you'll find in this episode:

• What is Cogan's Syndrome?
• Who gets Cogan's Syndrome?
• What are the symptoms of Cogan's Syndrome?
• How is Cogan's SyndromeDiagnosed?
• How is Cogan's Syndrome treated?
• Side Effects from Medication
• Life with Vasculitis
• Patient to Patient

Please don't forget to click that subscibe button whereever you listen to the podcast and do me a HUGE favor and leave a review! These two things help others find the podcast, find our community, and feel a little less alone in their journey through life with chronic illness!

Join us on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/teamvasculitis

Join the Email List:
https://teamvasculitis.com/team-vasculitis-email

Sources:

https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/1421/cogans-syndrome

https://www.health.harvard.edu/a_to_z/cogans-syndrome-a-to-z

https://mayoclinic.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/cogans-syndrome-an-audiovestibular-ocular-and-systemic-autoimmune

A breakdown of what Aortitis and what you need to know as a patient as well as insight from patients on life with Aortitis.

Here's what you'll find in this episode:

• What is Aortitis?
• What causes Aortitis?
• Who gets Aortitis?
• What are the symptoms?
• How is Aortitis Diagnosed?
• How is Aortitis treated?
• Side Effects from Medications
• Your Medical Team
• Life with Vasculitis
• Patient to Patient

Please don't forget to click that subscibe button whereever you listen to the podcast and do me a HUGE favor and leave a review! These two things help others find the podcast, find our community, and feel a little less alone in their journey through life with chronic illness!

Join us on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/teamvasculitis

Join the Email List:
https://teamvasculitis.com/team-vasculitis-email

Sources:

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24264-aortitis

https://www.cedars-sinai.org/health-library/diseases-and-conditions/i/inflammatory-aortic-disease-aortitis.html

https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/cardiovascular-disorders/diseases-of-the-aorta-and-its-branches/aortitis

About Amy Behimer:

Amy Behimer is a Pharmacist and Certified Health And Wellness Coach with an expertise in functional medicine and autoimmunity. She works with autoimmune warriors who are ready to fuel their bodies and minds to finally feel better and live their best lives.

Living with multiple sclerosis, Amy hopes to be an example of what is possible, encouraging others to think outside the box and create their own path towards health. She helps people shift from managing their autoimmune disease to creating autoimmune heath using the power of everyday habits.

What We Discuss In This Episode:

• How to use the power of everyday habits to increase energy in autoimmune disease.
• Why are habits the key to increasing energy (in autoimmune disease) or for anyone struggling with fatigue?
• Knowing changing lifestyle can feel like a huge undertaking for many, what are ways to make changes that last and even in an enjoyable way?
• What's the biggest shift in health you experienced on your 10+ years of living with chronic disease?
• What is a keystone (or foundational) habit that every body (and everybody) could benefit from?
• What does treating the root cause of disease using functional medicine principles look like?
• Amy shares a framework/tool  that she uses with clients to assess what habits to focus on first.

Free Resources from Amy Behimer:

https://amybehimercoaching.com/gut-health-checklist

https://amybehimercoaching.com/ingredient-guide

Connect with Amy Behimer:

Website: https://www.amybehimercoaching.com

Connect with Lynne:

If you're looking for a community of like-minded women on a journey - just like you are - to improved health and wellness, overall balance, and increased confidence, check out Lynne's private community in The Energized & Healthy Women's Club. It's a supportive and collaborative community where the women in this group share tips and solutions for a healthy and holistic lifestyle. (Discussions include things like weight management, eliminating belly bloat, wrangling sugar gremlins, and overcoming fatigue, recipes, strategies, and much more so women can feel energized, healthy, confident, and joyful each day.

Website:  https://holistic-healthandwellness.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/holistichealthandwellnessllc

The Energized Healthy Women’s Club:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/energized.healthy.women

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lynnewadsworth

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnewadsworth

Free Resources from Lynne Wadsworth:

5 Simple Steps to Gain Energy, Feel Great & Uplevel Your Health: Are you ready to create a Healthier Lifestyle?  Would you like to feel lighter, more energized, and even add joy to your life? If it's time to find more balance of mind~body~soul, then I've got the perfect FREE resource to help.  In this guide, you'll find my most impactful strategies and I've made applying them in your life as simple as 1-2-3 (plus a couple more) to help you create a healthier, holistic lifestyle. Uplevel your holistic health and wellness and download the 5 Simple Steps to Health  here:  https://holistic-healthandwellness.com/5-simple-steps-to-a-healthier-you/

How to Thrive in Menopause:  Hot flashes? Low Energy? Difficulty with weight management? If MID-LIFE & MENOPAUSE are taking their toll then I've got a solution for you! I've taken all my very best strategies and solutions to help you feel energized, vibrant, lighter & healthy, and compiled them into this FREE resource! Thrive in midlife and beyond - download my guide here: https://holistic-healthandwellness.com/thrive-through-menopause/

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This week we have Alison Marras returning to the show.

My girl is an incredible nutritional therapy practitioner. After being diagnosed with PCOS and Hashimoto’s Autoimmune Disease, Alison put her illness into remission (plus gave birth to a beautiful baby girl) by transforming her diet + lifestyle. Now she’s passionate about helping others find enjoyable holistic healing and overcome the exhaustion of restrictive diets + fitness fads. She has an abundance of knowledge designed to empower your health journey.

This conversation is an epic starting point. We touch on many topics that will help integrate your own experiences + outline the shifts you can begin making today.

In this episode we dive into:

• Stabilizing your nervous system for increased rest + digest regeneration

• How to optimize your vagal tone + HRV to promote a parasympathetic state + help the body recover

• The fight, flight, freeze, fawn responses + the significant impact they have on your gut health

• Various environmental, food, and topical toxins that could be triggering hidden health issues (plus a step-by-step start to the substitutions that isn’t an overwhelming process)

• The importance of loving yourself through healing + treating your body like the teammate it is

This conversation holds so much comprehensive value to encourage the inches that make the mile on your lifelong path to health.

Let us know how this episode impacted you via IG in the comments, DMs + story shares and tagging @foodbymars +@blackbeltbeauty  -- we LOVE connecting with you. 

If you haven’t already, please give this podcast a 5-star rating + review. My team and I SO appreciate the support!

Enjoy! Xx

CONNECT WITH ALISON 

• INSTAGRAM: @foodbymars

• WEBSITE: https://foodbymars.com/about/ 

Superwomen, if you know me, you know I love my coffee routine beyond all belief. It's my morning rhythym, and the first sip is something I LOVE. And while it has never woken me up (darn fast caffeine metabolizer over here!), it is a flavour I love. 

So, imagine my excitement when I discovered Sip Herbals coffee alternative. I'm always up for trying something new, but every coffee alternative I've ever tried just.. hasn't worked. So... I attempted to prove myself wrong. 

And I did. 

And loved it so much I reached out to their co-founder Orleatha to talk about why they created the product (food sensitivites suck), what it's like being a female entrepreneur (let alone a black female entrepreneur) and how you can engage with her product in their latest Kickstarter (open until August 5th!) Plus, it's vegan, gluten-free, paleo, AIP and free from the most common food sensitivities and allergens. 

Follow them online to find out more and fall in love with their product as much as I have. Please ignore the dog interruption half way through, friends, we wern't editing them out (real life!) 

Sip Herbals on Instagram
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Connect with Sip Herbals online

In exciting news, our Ask Me Anything is starting in September. A Thursday short episode answering your hormone, burnout and health questions. Leave us your question in a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or the like and we'll pick one a week to answer! Plus, it helps us get the podcast into more peoples hands. 

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Functional Medicine Doctor Greg Monjeon talks about getting to the underlying cause of what's ailing us.

1:34 - Introduction

2:50 - The difference between Functional & Allopathic Medicine

12:42 - Dr Greg's gets Mayo Clinic dropouts in his clinic

15:24 - Our bodies have 75 trillion cells

18:03 - Sauna Space Promo

19:46 - The root cause of auto immunity

30:07 - In order to be whole, we must understand our true identity

38:27 - Dr Greg's TEAMS approach to health

46:04 - David's tips for better sleep in a hotel room

48:35 -Conclusion

Tu vas apprendre à apaiser tes maux de ventre ici !

Le principal est d'écouter son corps.

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Les bourgeons, les huiles essentielles, les pierres, les soins énergétiques, la nourriture, tous ces outils peuvent te permettre d'aller mieux et d'atténuer les maux physique, d'une manière efficace et naturelle.

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