Podcast 39: What if your toxic relationship is with yourself?
Chronic Illness can be devastating to deal with and often it has a collateral effect to those around the person afflicted with it. By no means am I suggesting anyone would want to remain ill, however,. something very strange occurs when a person has been struggling with their health for many months or even year? The illness can actually form part of their personality, treatment becomes some sort of daily ritual and life without it can perhaps feel a little strange. I personally understand this strange phenomenon as this was something I experienced myself and see it extremely often in my patients.
Podcast 34: When Chronic Illness Becomes Your Friend
This may sound like a strange title to some and also a little confusing as no one ever wants to be sick. More importantly, who in their right mind would want to be friends with their illness? This is true – no one wants to be identified as their illness and certainly, no one wants to do anything that would encourage their body to be in a diseased state, however, the mind is a wonderful thing in that it will adjust and manage trauma in a way that allows you to move forward.
