What Happens When Your Journey is an Autoimmune Soap Opera? Kelly Conway’s Story
Kelly shares the long and winding road trialing medications and building her coping toolbox as she navigates an undetermined form of autoimmune arthritis. She shares what it’s like to work as a Speech...
10 Touko 20231h 7min
What’s in Gittel’s Coping Toolbox? Group Support, Overcoming Ableism & More
Content / trigger warning: mass shooting discussion Learning to thrive with chronic illness is a marathon, not a sprint. Cheryl and Gittel discuss coping through unlearning toxic positivity, confronti...
28 Huhti 20231h 19min
How to Build Resilience while Living with Chronic Pain: Tips from a Psychologist & Pain Researcher, with Dr. Afton Hassett
Summary:Psychologist Dr. Afton Hassett and Cheryl Crow, OT explore the neuroscience behind chronic pain and how its interconnection with fatigue, sleep, stress, and emotions may affect your experience...
18 Huhti 20231h 6min
“The Art of Reframing:” Cheryl Koehn on Learning to Love Herself & Life with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Cheryl C. and Cheryl K. share key tools for thriving with arthritis, like finding ways to ask for help, developing health literacy, practicing self-compassion, and getting support. They also discuss t...
28 Maalis 20231h 23min
It’s Not Just Dry Eyes: Deep Dive into Systemic Sjogren’s Disease with Dr Kara Wada
Dr. Wada and Cheryl delve into the connection between Sjogren’s and Rheumatoid Arthritis, discover what’s in Dr. Wada’s disease management toolkit, and share insights into living a full, vibrant life ...
16 Maalis 20231h 14min
Hand Therapy Secrets Everyone with Arthritis Should Know, with Certified Hand Therapist & OT Hoang Tran
Episode summaryIn this episode, occupational therapists Cheryl Crow & Hoang Tran go in depth on how and why the human hand is so complex, and how people with inflammatory arthritis can take good care ...
10 Maalis 20231h 28min
How to Cope when your Diagnosis Changes: Clare's Myofascial Pain Syndrome Story
Clare and Cheryl share tips for how to cope with periods of no diagnosis or changing diagnosis. Clare also provides insights from her unique perspective as someone diagnosed with autism as an adult, s...
28 Helmi 20231h 13min
From Burlesque Dancing to Support Groups: How Marisa Thrives with Rheumatoid Arthritis
In this episode, Marisa shares what it was like to be diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis around her thirtieth birthday after thinking her wrist pain was only carpel tunnel syndrome. She opens up abou...
2 Helmi 202354min
