<p>Behind the Pouch speaks to Clare Mee (@tomasthestoma), a married mother of two from Nottingham, England. Since acquiring her stoma in 2016, Clare has really taken to online blogging where she has documented her own IBD journey as well as offering a range of helpful tips for other ostomates. She aims to raise awareness of all things stoma and IBD and to show the world that life doesn’t have to end after a traumatic event, it just changes.</p>

Behind the Pouch with Alisa Kuivasto

Behind the Pouch is the podcast from abiggerlife.com and delivers a fortnightly dose of unscripted, unfettered chat with an ostomate from anywhere in the world. We believe that everyone has a story to tell and that a podcast can provide a platform for a whole new audience of ostomates to hear what 'a bigger life' means to someone else. We believe that a stoma shouldn't define you, it's just a small part of a bigger life. Like many of the ostomates that we speak to we do not take ourselves too seriously and, while the tools behind the podcast offer support and clinical advice, our podcast will showcase the people behind the pouch.