71: How Can I Have a Healthy Sex Life and Enjoy Intimacy with a Chronic Illness? | Dr. Lisa Gray

71: How Can I Have a Healthy Sex Life and Enjoy Intimacy with a Chronic Illness? | Dr. Lisa Gray

💘 Valentine’s Day Special Episode

Valentine’s Day often focuses on romance — but when chronic illness enters a relationship, love takes on deeper, more complex layers.

In this special Valentine’s episode of Autoimmune Adventures, we sit down with Dr. Lisa Gray to explore how chronic illness reshapes relationships, intimacy, communication, and emotional connection — for both partners.

Chronic illness doesn’t just affect the person diagnosed. It introduces grief, loss, and adjustment for their partner as well. Together, couples must learn how to navigate disappointment, redefine intimacy, and repair emotional ruptures when fatigue, pain, and uncertainty become part of daily life.

In this episode, we discuss:

  • How shared grief shows up differently for each partner

  • Why planning intimacy can actually increase connection and desire

  • The role of repair in long-term, resilient relationships

  • How couples can grow closer instead of drifting apart after diagnosis

This conversation is honest, compassionate, and deeply validating — whether you’re living with chronic illness, loving someone who is, or both.

💝 Because real love isn’t about perfection — it’s about repair, care, and choosing each other again and again.

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104: How Do PTSD Service Dogs Help? Lee Atherton on the Dog That Saved Her Life

104: How Do PTSD Service Dogs Help? Lee Atherton on the Dog That Saved Her Life

How do PTSD service dogs help—and what are they actually trained to do? Lee Atherton says her service dog, Shadow, saved her life. Now she’s working to help other people living with PTSD and hidden di...

29 Syys 36min

103: Why Can Chronic Illness Take So Long to Diagnose? | Haresh Patel

103: Why Can Chronic Illness Take So Long to Diagnose? | Haresh Patel

What happens when you spend decades searching for answers — and every doctor sees only one piece of the story? Haresh Patel spent 55 years trying to understand a medical mystery that more than a doze...

22 Syys 42min

102: Chronic Pain, Emotions & Neuroplasticity with Dr. Tovah Goldfine

102: Chronic Pain, Emotions & Neuroplasticity with Dr. Tovah Goldfine

Can emotions affect chronic pain? What does neuroplasticity have to do with persistent symptoms—and can the brain learn new pain pathways? In this episode of Autoimmune Adventures, Dr. Tovah Goldfine ...

15 Syys 52min

101: Red Light Therapy Explained: How Does It Affect Mitochondria, Energy & Inflammation?

101: Red Light Therapy Explained: How Does It Affect Mitochondria, Energy & Inflammation?

How does red light therapy actually work—and what happens inside your cells when you're exposed to red and near-infrared light? Dr. Paul Barattiero joins Autoimmune Adventures to explain the science b...

8 Syys 41min

100: Celebrating 100 Episodes | The Voices & Stories That Have Shaped Autoimmune Adventures

100: Celebrating 100 Episodes | The Voices & Stories That Have Shaped Autoimmune Adventures

🎉 100 EPISODES. And we didn't get here alone. This episode is our love letter to every guest who trusted us with their story—and to every person who has listened, watched, shared, commented, laughed,...

1 Syys 45min

99:Hydrogen Water Explained: Can It Help Oxidative Stress & Inflammation? | Dr. Paul Barattiero

99:Hydrogen Water Explained: Can It Help Oxidative Stress & Inflammation? | Dr. Paul Barattiero

What is hydrogen water—and what could molecular hydrogen have to do with oxidative stress, inflammation, energy, and cellular health? Dr. Paul Barattiero joins Autoimmune Adventures to take us inside ...

25 Elo 51min

98: Chronic Stress Affects Your Body | Melissa Lewis-Duarte on Realistic Nervous System Regulation

98: Chronic Stress Affects Your Body | Melissa Lewis-Duarte on Realistic Nervous System Regulation

If you live with chronic illness, you've probably been told to “manage your stress.” But what does that actually mean when you're already exhausted, overwhelmed, and managing a body with limited bandw...

18 Elo 42min

97: Chronic Illness Grief, Identity & Finding Yourself Again | Dr. Jeffrey Bone

97: Chronic Illness Grief, Identity & Finding Yourself Again | Dr. Jeffrey Bone

What happens to your identity when chronic illness changes the life you thought you were going to have? And how do you grieve who you were without giving up on who you can still become? In this powerf...

11 Elo 52min

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