Uninvisible Pod with Lauren Freedman
161 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 96 ratingsAn award-winning podcast about invisible conditions and chronic invisible illness, featuring interviews with survivors, their loved ones, advocates, and experts in varied healing modalities, from medical to holistic. Hosted by Lauren Freedman, a health coach and patient advocate, who lives with Hashimoto’s disease and sleep disorders, Uninvisible uncovers real stories of survival and humanity – complete with laughter. In truth and with candor, we offer solutions – and challenge the world to change.
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054: Lauren’s Story
December 25, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBAt this point you’re all pretty familiar with my voice, right? Well, as we head into the holiday season and close in on our one-year anniversary (!!), we thought it was time we gave you what you’ve been asking for: more of me! This episode was initially recorded for a FB Live appearance with Naomi Batty of Holtorf Medical Group – and we had such a great chat, I thought it would make the perfect round-up for 2019 and give everyone more of an insight into my WHY – and how the podcast was bor...
053: Chronically Ill Sisters Trishna Bharadia & Anisha Gangotra
December 18, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBJoin us as we revisit some past guests to discuss new topics! Trishna Bharadia and Anisha Gangotra are sisters – both thriving with their own chronic invisible illnesses. Trishna lives with MS (multiple sclerosis) and works tirelessly as a patient advocate; Anisha lives with UC (ulcerative colitis) and has also survived PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). Anisha was inspired by her own journey to begin teaching inclusive dance classes – which Trishna frequently attends! The two are a we...
052: Surviving Lead & Mercury Poisoning w/ Camille Thornton-Alson
December 11, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 50.9 MBCamille Thornton-Alson is a classically trained actress, coach, and teacher. A longtime friend of Lauren’s, the two met while studying abroad in London – right before Camille began a stint in Paris at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq. Following her stay in France, Camille returned home to the Bay Area and was immediately stricken with a mysterious illness…one that took her almost a decade to break through. Mistakenly diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, for years she str...
051: Mental Health & Cystic Fibrosis Patient Advocate Thomas Smith
December 04, 2019 11:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBThomas Smith is a an international consultant providing expert patient insights; diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) as an infant and taking control of his livelihood in his late teen years, he is now involved with numerous patient advocacy groups that span the rare and chronic disease spectrum, with a focus on mental health. A former member of the European Health Parliament in Brussels, he’s an expert patient reviewer for the European Medicines Agency, a trustee at Britain’s biggest natio...
051: Mental Health & Cystic Fibrosis Patient Advocate Thomas Smith
December 04, 2019 11:00 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBThomas Smith is a an international consultant providing expert patient insights; diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) as an infant and taking control of his livelihood in his late teen years, he is now involved with numerous patient advocacy groups that span the rare and chronic disease spectrum, with a focus on mental health. A former member of the European Health Parliament in Brussels, he’s an expert patient reviewer for the European Medicines Agency, a trustee at Britain’s biggest natio...
050: Jaelin & Natalie Palmer on Living with CRPS and Trigeminal Neuralgia
November 27, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 49.2 MBJaelin Palmer is a 25-year-old activist and organizer living with CRPS (complex regional pain syndrome, or reflex sympathetic dystrophy) and TN (trigeminal neuralgia). She was diagnosed with CRPS at 15, following a jaw surgery gone wrong; the TN diagnosis came much later, despite her extreme chronic facial pain. Her mother, Natalie, joins us in this special mother-daughter interview not only because she is Jaelin’s full-time caregiver, but also because we so value her perspective as the lo...
049: Endocrinologist Dr. Rashmi Mullur on an Integrative Approach to Healing
November 20, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBDr. Rashmi Mullur is an integrative endocrinologist leading practices at UCLA and the VA in Los Angeles. She received her medical degree from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and completed her internal medicine and chief residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. After this, she completed a fellowship in Endocrinology at the VA-Cedars Sinai Medical Center. A certified yoga instructor registered with the International Alliance fo...
048: Inclusive Dance Instructor Anisha Gangotra on Living with UC & PTSD
November 13, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 49.7 MBAnisha Gangotra is an inclusive dance instructor living in the UK, and the sister of former guest Trishna Bharadia. In 2008, at the age of 24, she was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis (UC) – an autoimmune condition that attacks the gut. Shortly after, in 2011, she was a victim in a high-speed car accident; during her long recovery and rehabilitation, she was additionally diagnosed with PTSD, depression, and anxiety. For the next 4-5 years, she sought to access mental health treatments suc...
047: Devri Velazquez on Living with Rare Disease Takayasu’s Arteritis
November 06, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 41.8 MBDevri Velazquez – or, as she has aptly proclaimed herself, “pretty, sick. chick” – is a content creator, writer, editor, speaker, model, and advocate for chronic illness. She lives with a very rare form of vasculitis called Takayasu’s Arteritis. Diagnosed in 2011, she was told by doctors that she might not live to see 30 – and she turned 30 last month! Not only has she defied the odds with her physical health, but her mental health has played a big role in her ongoing wellness and healing....
047: Devri Velazquez on Living with Rare Disease Takayasu’s Arteritis
November 06, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBDevri Velazquez – or, as she has aptly proclaimed herself, “pretty, sick. chick” – is a content creator, writer, editor, speaker, model, and advocate for chronic illness. She lives with a very rare form of vasculitis called Takayasu’s Arteritis. Diagnosed in 2011, she was told by doctors that she might not live to see 30 – and she turned 30 last month! Not only has she defied the odds with her physical health, but her mental health has played a big role in her ongoing wellness and healing....
046: Researching ME/CFS with Dr. Chris Armstrong of OMF
October 30, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 44.6 MBChris Armstrong, PhD was first introduced to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) through research into metabolomics at the University of Melbourne, Australia. As he delved deeper into his work, he discovered its connection to ME/CFS patients, and empathized so much with their plight – and the lack of resources, funding, and research available to both patients and clinicians – that he made it his mission to continue research in this field in the hope of finding a cur...
045: Nikita Chopra on Living with Psoriatic Arthritis and Channeling her Diagnosis into Advocacy
October 23, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBNitika Chopra is, in her own words, “a woman on a mission to inspire radical self-love.” Her goal is not only to show us how to fall in love with ourselves, but, like her, to “learn to thrive with a chronic illness.” If she’s one thing: she’s real. Nitika shares the raw pain she had to grow through in order to find that self-love she speaks so passionately about. Diagnosed with debilitating psoriasis at 10, she was further diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis – which at that point had taken ...
044: Clare Stafford – Breast Cancer & Integrative Medicine
October 16, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBClare Stafford is one of Lauren’s oldest friends. Hailing from Melbourne, Australia (by way of Irish-born parents), Clare has built a career as a social justice advocate and lawyer. Having worked in refugee camps in Greece and campaigned for indigenous rights in Australia, her focus has always been on immigration, native rights, gender equality, and climate justice. She is an avid follower of music, traveling the globe to attend festivals and visit friends far and wide. In 2017, shortly af...
044: Clare Stafford – Breast Cancer & Integrative Medicine
October 16, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 78.9 MBClare Stafford is one of Lauren’s oldest friends. Hailing from Melbourne, Australia (by way of Irish-born parents), Clare has built a career as a social justice advocate and lawyer. Having worked in refugee camps in Greece and campaigned for indigenous rights in Australia, her focus has always been on immigration, native rights, gender equality, and climate justice. She is an avid follower of music, traveling the globe to attend festivals and visit friends far and wide. In 2017, shortly af...
043: Ilana Jacqueline on Navigating Life with Invisible Chronic Illness
October 09, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MBIlana Jacqueline is a best-selling author, speaker, patient advocacy strategist, and professional patient advocate. While her background is in PR, her career as a patient advocate started with an early blog, Let’s Feel Better, in 2012, and gave birth to the book Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness – which was Lauren’s playbook when she first got diagnosed (Ilana has a way of saying it like it is and managing to stay sane and amused that is right up Lauren’s alley). She...
042: Aditi Juneja – Living with Epilepsy & Self-Advocating as a WOC
October 02, 2019 10:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBAditi Juneja is a lawyer, writer, and organizer living with epilepsy. She is the creator and host of Self Care Sundays, a podcast about self-care for communities of color. With past guest T. Sydney Bergeron Mikus, she is also the co-founder of the Invisible Illnesses Support Circle at The Wing in NYC. While at NYU law school, she co-created the Disability Allied Law Students Association (DALSA). In 2017, she also cofounded the Resistance Manual, a nonpartisan organization crowdsourcing con...
041: Ariel of @Carpe_That__Diem on Gender, Identity, and Disability
September 25, 2019 10:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBIn this second installment of Lauren’s interview with Ariel, we dig further into his conditions and lifestyle: what his advocacy work means to him, his journey through the workforce and struggle to find employment with disabilities, his experience as a service dog handler, and life with thyroid disease, bipolar II, borderline personality disorder, endometriosis as a gender-diverse individual, and chronic pain. He emphasizes that these experiences are not unique to him – but that he is priv...
040: Ariel of @Carpe_That__Diem on Living in an Agender, Trans Disabled Body
September 18, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBIf you’re involved in the Spoonie community on Instagram, you’ve probably come across Ariel of @carpe_that__diem, who blogs about living in a disabled trans agender body, mental health, working with a SD (service dog), and death positivity. An academic by training and trade, Ariel’s perspective is eloquent, enlightening, and engaging. He uses this interview (in two parts) to dive into the intersections of invisibility in his life – as a disabled person living with post-hysterectomy endomet...
039: Thyroid Patient Advocate Rachel Hill on Living with Hashimoto’s and Hypothyroidism
September 11, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 44 MBRachel Hill is an author, writer, thyroid patient advocate, and creator of the award-winning website, The Invisible Hypothyroidism. Diagnosed with hypothyroidism and Hashimoto’s disease, she talks openly and honestly about what it’s like to have these diagnoses, as well as what has helped her and many others to recover their health and to thrive. She is passionate about helping those with hypothyroidism and giving them a voice, and is recognized as a valuable contributor to the thyroid c...
038: Todd White, Founder of Dry Farm Wines, on How to Maintain Optimal Health When Drinking Wine (#WineForSpoonies)
September 04, 2019 10:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBTodd White is the founder of Dry Farm Wines, and is a leading authority on healthy organic/natural wines and the importance of micro-dosing alcohol for health, longevity, and vitality. His passion is in unlocking the best way to enjoy alcohol – how to enjoy the benefits of moderate consumption while avoiding its potential negative side effects. Dry Farm Wines was born from Todd’s interest in biohacking and his role as a health evangelist; the company has been endorsed by many leading US he...
037: Neurohumorist Karyn Buxman on the Healing Power of Humor
August 28, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBKaryn Buxman is a neurohumorist (living at the intersection of the brain and humor), author, researcher, keynoter, coach, and TEDx speaker. For the last 30 years, she has worked with clients like NASA, the Mayo Clinic, Cigna, and 800+ others to empower with healthy humor. She runs custom retreats at her HumorLab in San Diego, and focuses on high performers in the ROI of laughter. She is quick to distinguish that humor ≠ comedy. Her next book, Funny Means Money: Strategic Humor for Influenc...
036: Sweet Apricity Founder Tonya Butts on Pain, Pleasure, and Surviving Toxic Mold
August 21, 2019 10:00 - 51 minutes - 35 MBTonya Butts is the founder of Sweet Apricity, a sweets company that makes elimination-diet-compliant caramels (and caramel sauce!), marshmallows, and more. The company started on a whim: Tonya began crafting her dairy-free caramels as a graduation gift for her best friend Wendy, who manages debilitating symptoms with the Autoimmune Protocol (AIP). While offering powerful relief for those with autoimmune disease, AIP also eliminates a number of ingredients that limit indulgence (read: sweet...
035: Michelle Roberts on ERISA and Disability Insurance
August 14, 2019 10:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBMichelle Roberts is formerly of Kantor & Kantor LLP, and now founder of Roberts Disability Law in the Bay Area. She has spent her entire legal career helping individuals with disabilities obtain income replacement benefits from their employer’s group disability plans, and works from the heart after watching her father, a disabled veteran, struggle to work and support his family while dealing with the consequences of debilitating medical conditions. In so doing, she has worked with hundred...
034: Vincent Sabella on Living with Sc hizoaffective Disorder , OCD, Depression, & Anxiety – and Surviving Cancer
August 07, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 48.9 MBWriter and filmmaker Vincent Sabella lives with OCD, depression, anxiety, and schizoaffective disorder. In 2013, he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma; he has been in remission for six years. Vinny’s film Elizabeth Blue was written after a harrowing year during which many of his medications, with which he is diligent, failed. His husband, Joseph, has been his consummate advocate, and has never been fazed by any of his diagnoses. He sits down with Lauren to discuss his life, his work...
033: Part 2: Trishna Bharadia, Award - Winning MS Patient Advocate
July 31, 2019 10:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBIn Part 2 of Lauren’s interview with award-winning patient advocate Trishna Bharadia, we dig deeper into the details of her work and what drives her every day. While she has faced instances of discrimination and seen the same happen to her friends, she remains strong and uses these episodes as teaching moments for others. Her passion truly keeps her going, and she recognizes the historical importance of patient advocacy, drawing inspiration from the other patients and advocates she encount...
032: Part 1: Trishna Bharadia, Award - Winning MS Patient Advocate
July 24, 2019 10:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBTrishna Bharadia is an award-winning patient advocate, and was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) at the age of 28. As she tells Lauren in this episode, the diagnosis helped her find her true purpose: to actively campaign for patient engagement and to represent the possibilities of living – and thriving – with MS. She has since become a public speaker, writer, vlogger, blogger, consultant, advisor, and educator in the chronic illness sphere, volunteering with organi...
031: Becca Lustgarten on Living with Celiac Disease
July 17, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBBecca Lustgarten is a vocalist, writer, and classically-trained actress. A few years ago, after suffering severe digestive distress, she was diagnosed with Celiac disease. Celiac is more than an allergy – it is a degenerative disease that causes major digestive destruction if left untreated. The only treatment? To go gluten-free. Becca joins us to share her story of discovery, and how she’s worked to heal her gut since her diagnosis. Listen in as Becca shares… - that she was always a s...
030: Part 2: Dr. Ginny Orenstein on how Medical Medium healed her life
July 10, 2019 10:00 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MBListen in to Part 2 of Lauren’s interview with Dr. (of music!) Ginny Orenstein, who healed herself of lupus SLE, rheumatoid arthritis, two benign brain tumors, and stroke with Medical Medium Anthony William’s protocols for diet and lifestyle. Not only has Dr. Ginny been able to tackle her own health concerns, but after a major cardiac event her husband has also joined her on the journey to wellness through MM…and has seen remission of heart damage, diverticulitis, diverticulosis, and a dis...
029: Part 1: Dr. Ginny Orenstein on how Medical Medium healed her life
July 03, 2019 10:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBAt 34, Dr. Ginny Orenstein (doctor of music!) had finally been diagnosed with severe systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis in her chest and spine, two benign vascular brain tumors, and a microvascular ischemic brain disease (stroke). Her life was one of confinement – she had been bedridden for 2.5 years, and prescribed medications and chemotherapy were causing more harm than good. Her Hail Mary was played out on a whim: she purchased Medical Medium by Anthony William – n...
028: Eric on living with Cystic Fibrosis
June 26, 2019 10:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBEric is originally from Philadelphia, PA, and was born with cystic fibrosis. Diagnosed at the age of 1, his original life expectancy was between 10-14 years. As advances in medical treatment have moved forward, so has his life expectancy…so much so that Eric has now, at 41, surpassed his doctors’ hopes. He moved to Southern California as an adult to take advantage of the statewide Genetically Handicapped Persons Program, which enables him to get his treatments and medications fully covered...
028: Eric on living with Cystic Fibrosis
June 26, 2019 10:00 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBEric is originally from Philadelphia, PA, and was born with cystic fibrosis. Diagnosed at the age of 1, his original life expectancy was between 10-14 years. As advances in medical treatment have moved forward, so has his life expectancy…so much so that Eric has now, at 41, surpassed his doctors’ hopes. He moved to Southern California as an adult to take advantage of the statewide Genetically Handicapped Persons Program, which enables him to get his treatments and medications fully covered...
027: Lara Bloom, International Executive Director of the Ehlers - Danlos Society
June 19, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 47.9 MBLara Bloom is the international Executive Director of the Ehlers-Danlos Society. Finally diagnosed with EDS at the age of 24 (after many years of chronic pain and frustration), she channeled her healing into patient advocacy. Her job is to raise global awareness of rare, chronic, and invisible diseases, with a focus on the Ehlers-Danlos syndromes, hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD), and related disorders. Lara manages coordinated medical collaboration, raising funds for research, and ...
026: T. Sydney Bergeron Mikus on Living with Tick - Borne Disease , POTS, and Hashimoto’s
June 12, 2019 10:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MBT. Sydney Bergeron Mikus is an award-winning writer, artist, designer, model, and activist based in NYC. They live with TBD (tick borne disease), including Lyme, Bartonella, and ehrlicia, as well as POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome). They create work driven by healing advocacy, art, and narrative as tools for change, and self-care as disruption. They are the founder and director of Simple Politicks, and co-host the Invisible Illnesses Support Circle at The Wing. They are als...
025: P. Brendon Lundberg, Co-Founder of Radiant Pain Relief Centres
June 05, 2019 10:00 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBWith a vision to build the safest, most consistently effective and non-invasive solution to the epidemic of chronic pain, Brendon Lundberg (a chronic pain survivor himself) co-founded Radiant Pain Relief Centres in Oregon. The centres use an FDA-approved and Mayo Clinic-tested treatment for chronic pain called Scrambler Therapy, which targets the brain’s response to pain in the body and aims to retrain its feedback loop by encouraging neuroplasticity. Brendon combines his mission to change t...
025: P. Brendon Lundberg, Co-Founder of Radiant Pain Relief Centres
June 05, 2019 10:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBWith a vision to build the safest, most consistently effective and non-invasive solution to the epidemic of chronic pain, Brendon Lundberg (a chronic pain survivor himself) co-founded Radiant Pain Relief Centres in Oregon. The centres use an FDA-approved and Mayo Clinic-tested treatment for chronic pain called Scrambler Therapy, which targets the brain’s response to pain in the body and aims to retrain its feedback loop by encouraging neuroplasticity. Brendon combines his mission to change t...
024: Scientist Noah Gardner on Living with Type 1 (Juvenile) Diabetes
May 29, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBNoah Gardner is a scientist based in Massachusetts. He was diagnosed with type 1 (juvenile) diabetes in 1995, at the age of 12. While this autoimmune condition is genetic, his diagnosis came completely out of the blue to both him and his family. A little background on T1 diabetes: in an autoimmune reaction, the immune system attacks beta cells in the pancreas (which produce insulin), thus destroying them. Hence the need for insulin and devices like insulin pumps, which effectively act as a...
023: Two Being Healthy on Living W ith & Blogging A bout Lupus, POTS, MCAD, and EDS
May 22, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 49.9 MBEm & Kate are the sisters behind the wellness blog Two Being Healthy. Both live with lupus, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), mast cell activation disorder (MCAD), and cytochrome mutations (which have affected their ability to metabolize certain drugs). Having spent much of their adult lives living with and navigating the symptoms of invisible illness, the two act as co-advocates for one another and have been by each others’ side through their up...
022: Ilene, Rape & Endometriosis Survivor
May 15, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 47.4 MBIn an effort to preserve this guest’s privacy, we are using an alias in this episode – an Uninvisible first! Ilene is an award-winning 6th-grade elementary school teacher. She is also a survivor of rape, “endometrial symptoms” (aka, undiagnosed endometriosis – chronic pain that was only compounded by her sexual assault), and hypothyroidism. She joins Lauren for a no-holds-barred conversation about her how her health and physical experiences have affected her emotional world, and informed the...
021: Jameisha Prescod, Founder of You Look Okay To Me, on Living with Chronic Illness and Disability in the UK
May 08, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 46.5 MBJameisha Prescod is a London-based activist who lives with lupus, Raynaud’s, and femeroacetabular impingement (FAI); she is also waiting on possible diagnoses of endometriosis and Celiac disease. She is the founder of You Look Okay To Me, an online platform for pain and chronic illness that is chock-full of content about invisible illness, disability, and their roles in tech, art, culture…and everyday life. In this episode, Jameisha sits down with Lauren to talk about gaslighting in the medi...
020: Depression, Anxiety, Digestive Issues, & Chronic Migraines with Alison Yate
May 01, 2019 10:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBAlison Yates is a multi-hyphenate creative living in Los Angeles. A comedienne and actor, producer, writer, photographer, social media manager, website designer, and skincare consultant (phew!), she performs sketch and comedy regularly with Second City and the Groundlings, and has a production company called The People Zoo. She’s been featured on several TV shows, including Jane the Virgin and Mom. She’s lived with migraines since she was 6 years old, and depression and anxiety since she was...
019: Sascha Alexander UPDATE: This Lady’s Got Lyme!
April 24, 2019 10:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBJoin us for another joyous installment with the incomparable Sascha Alexander. Remember that time she thought she had toxic mold, in addition to interstitial cystitis, candida, and Hashimoto’s disease? Well, guess what? That toxic mold ain’t so moldy…it’s Lyme! Lauren sits down with Sascha to find out how she was ultimately diagnosed, and how she’s increasing her detox protocol to rid her body of one of the most insidious of invisible diseases: the tick-born illness, Lyme. Listen in as Sasc...
018: Dominique Viel, Founder of InvisiYouth Charity, on Teens in the Medical System and Navigating Invisible Illness Between Childhood and Adulthood
April 17, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBDominique Viel is the founder of InvisiYouth Charity, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that helps teens and young adults around the world with varied chronic conditions and disabilities discover empowering lifestyle programs to live full lives while battling illness. A natural progression of speaking engagements she began as a teen in research hospital treatment centers, she launched InvisiYouth in 2015 after years of self-advocacy, having experienced a lack of patient-centered platforms tha...
017: Calliope Tsoukalas on Nutrition and Living with IBS
April 10, 2019 10:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBLauren brings back a familiar guest: Calliope Tsoukalas, a nutrition and wellness coach based in Los Angeles, CA. Calliope is on the show again not only to go more in-depth about her practice, but also to share her experiences living with one of the most nebulous of invisible illness diagnoses: IBS. Listen in as Calliope reveals… - that she felt more connected to her body at a young age because she grew up with digestive problems and gut pain - that diet is 75% of IBS management, but ex...
016: Sarah Belclaire on Drug-Induced Lupus and Cardiomyopathy
April 03, 2019 10:00 - 52 minutes - 36 MBSarah Belclaire is an art librarian, fine art photographer, writer, and researcher based in Boston. Believe it or not, she and Lauren connected over email when Uninvisible first launched…because, like our first guest Mercedes Yvette, Sarah had lupus! Let’s explain the use of past tense here…Sarah lived with drug-induced lupus for two years – a reaction to medication she was prescribed for a GI issue (and one that was later diagnosed as only a food sensitivity – and cured with diet change). W...
015: Dr. Kent Holtorf on Medical “Quackery” and Evidence-Based Therapies for Chronic Illness
March 27, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBKent Holtorf, M.D. is the medical director of the Holtorf Medical Group, and a founder and director of the non-profit National Academy of Hypothyroidism (NAH). He has trained numerous physicians across the country in the use of bioidentical hormones, hypothyroidism, complex endocrine dysfunction, and innovative treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and chronic infectious diseases, including Lyme and its co-infections. Lyme, in particular, has been the focus of the Holtorf Me...
014: Depression, Anxiety, and Bipolar Disorder with Podcaster and Performer Paige Fockler
March 20, 2019 10:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBPaige Fockler is a performer and podcaster who lives with depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder. She is the host of Greetings From Depression, a podcast in which she interviews individuals who live with mental illness, and aims to create an environment in which discussions about mental health are acceptable, productive, and completely de-stigmatized. In this episode, she talks about her personal struggles, distinguishes between bipolar I and II, and tells us what being an “oversharer” m...
013: Reiki as a Healing Modality with Karen Felice RMT
March 13, 2019 10:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBKaren Felice is a renowned Reiki Master Teacher in the Usui and Karuna traditions. She’s no stranger to the demands of a busy work-life, with a background as a TV news producer and editor. Having made a career shift in 2011 with her training school and Reiki practice, Reconnect to Wellness, she now keeps a space in West Hollywood, CA, and is a published author. Her first book, “Compassion Speaks”, offers a modern approach to self-care through messages of compassion for self and for others. A...
012: Acoustic Neuromas and Finding Peace atAl-Anon with Sonora Chase
March 06, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 60.7 MBSonora Chase is an actress and writer living in Los Angeles. She has now survived not just one, but TWO acoustic neuromas – benign, fast-growing brain tumors that have affected her hearing, balance, spatial awareness, and facial nerves. In this episode, she shares her brave story – which involved a battle with health insurance companies, the steep learning curve of discovering her rights as a patient, and one big happy ending: getting the doctors she wanted and having both tumors removed. In...
011: The Benefits of EMDR Therapy with Michele Sherman MFT
February 27, 2019 11:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBLauren interviews another amazing health practitioner in this episode: Michele Sherman, MFT. Michele is a specialist in EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) therapy, which can be extremely useful in overcoming traumas of all shapes and sizes. She runs a practice out of Encino, CA Listen in as Michele reveals… - why EMDR is an effective and fast treatment for trauma - how EMDR works - why EMDR is really a mind-body treatment, and has helped patients surviving eating dis...
010: Katie Georgiou on Living with MS, Navigating the NHS, and Finding Her Sense of Humor
February 20, 2019 11:00 - 52 minutes - 35.7 MBIn episode 10, Lauren conducts her first international interview with actress Katie Georgiou, who lives in London (UK). Katie has been living with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (MS) since she was young, and waited 10+ years for her official diagnosis at age 19. In this conversation, she tells us what her flares look and feel like, gives her frank opinion of her experience with the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, and shares about the perspective shift that enables her to sur...