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Lighten Up #101: Lighten Up...about Illness?
Lighten Up with Melanie Dale
English - June 25, 2019 09:30 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 93 ratingsKids & Family Religion & Spirituality Christianity humor infertility adoption books faith movies orphancare parenting relationships Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Check check, is this thing on? Well hi there. I guess I'm back from hiatus and ready for more podcastery, so I thought I'd start with something super fun and light...illness? I know, illness is not historically a light topic, but we do learn coping tactics for getting through. How do we not descend into hopelessness when we're battling health problems? Today I kick off a new series in which I interview people dealing with various illnesses and how they learn to lighten up in the midst of the hard stuff. For this first episode, I interview myself. I talk about my endometriosis and also supporting loved ones with mental illness, ADHD, trauma, and autism. I also share how I learned to throw out expectations for what life would look like and my daily practice for lightening up. I always say that laughter makes us brave. Life's too long to take the whole thing seriously, so listen in, and lighten up.
Links from the show: It's Not Fair: Learning to Love the Life You Didn't Choose Infreakinfertility: How to Survive When Getting Pregnant Gets Hard Dead to Me (trigger warning about miscarriage) Subscribe to my monthly newsletter