How to adapt to living with chronic illness: Part 1.

11/20/24 • 39 min

Emotional Autoimmunity: Dealing with the emotional issues of chronic illness

Most of my new clients with chronic illness are starting from a place of complete overwhelm and feeling like they are sitting in the wreckage of their lives and wondering, 'where do I even start to deal with this?'
So let's talk about overcoming that overwhelm and finding ways to help yourself take back some sense of direction and control.
In this episode which will be a series, I start breaking down the first steps you need to take to start adapting to living your new life with chronic illness.
This includes:

Processing all the emotions
How to get the information you need
First steps to working out what you can do to help yourself
What your priorities need to be
How to manage the disbelief.

If you are feeling totally overwhelmed and need some direction and validation, then this podcast is for you.

Kerry Jeffery is a Coach, Counsellor and Clinical Hypnotherapist helping clients all around the world to overcome the emotional issues of living with chronic illness.
She lives in Melbourne, Australia along with Hashimoto's, Celiac, Antiphospholipid Syndrome and Type 1 Diabetes.
Find out more about Kerry and her Therapy programs here.
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Processing all the emotions
How to get the information you need
First steps to working out what you can do to help yourself
What your priorities need to be
How to manage the disbelief.

If you are feeling totally overwhelmed and need some direction and validation, then this podcast is for you.

Previous Episode

When others don't support how you choose to manage your illness.

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Chronic illness changes every aspect of your life and a large part of that is figuring out ways to best manage your symptoms and protect your energy.
The biggest problem is though that other people can get in the way of that.
Whether it's Doctors not supporting the treatment options you want, friends or family criticising or judging the changes you are making or having to deal with others fear, concern or disapproval, it adds another big challenge to an already overwhelming situation.
When chronic illness already leaves you feeling isolated, criticised and struggling, how do you cope when others don't support how you choose to manage your illness?
Find out how in this episode of the Emotional Autoimmunity podcast.

Next Episode

How to adapt to living with chronic illness Part 2

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The emotional and psychological impacts of becoming chronically ill so often go unrecognised, misunderstood belittled or simply ignored.

Which means that when it happens to you, you have no idea if the grief, fear, overwhelm and exhaustion that you feel are normal or that maybe, it is all in your head after all.

A big part of my work is to normalise and validate the often complex emotions that come with becoming chronically ill because people need to understand that all of the emotions are real, appropriate and completely understandable.

In this episode, I share perhaps the most challenging emotional issue of living with chronic illness that leads so many of us feeling hopeless, powerless and completely overwhelmed.

And more importantly, I give you some practical solutions for what you can do when you feel this way because you deserve to feel understood, supported and believed.