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Having open, honest, compassionate conversations with your closer and wider circles is something that many living with a chronic illness struggle with, for fear of being met with judgement, expectation and a lack of understanding about their lived experience.Today I’m chatting to Laura Leigh Champman, a genius communications mentor about how to have these conversations in open, constructive ways. Plus some other wonderful things which you can read about in the show notes.Trigger warning: contains a discussion about Laura's burns accident.YOU CAN FIND LAURA HERE:Click here to be taken to her website @lauraleighchapman on InstagramHer Clear and Confident Creatives Facebook groupOTHER LINKSSubscribe to my newsletter, Reframing Chronic IllnessYour Chronic Illness Superpower: click here to tap into the wisdom of your chronic illness and start living in the way you truly want to be living, from the day-to-day to the big dream stuff.EPISODE NOTES:2:43 - What is means to show up as your whole self.3:49 - How that connects to living with a chronic illness.5:06 - Connection and finding your right people to help you on a journey of acceptance and embracing who you are.07:01 - Help and support when breaking free from the chronic illness struggle cycle.08:52 - Reclaiming the word ‘fat’.10:20 - Both losing and redefining the relationship you have with yourself.11:23 - The power of finding people who are like you.13:41 - TW, burns accident.15:04 - Having open conversions and how to keep an evolving dialogue going.19:29 - The important part of living with a chronic illness that is so ignored.21:35 - What illness and medical facing systems can strip you of.23:45 - Taking responsibility for the bigger picture.25.21 - Reconnecting yourself with all the parts of you, and how your chronic illness can help you do that.28:03 - Inner dialogue and the way you speak to yourself.30:44 - The cost of suppressing parts of yourself.31:57 - Not being a fan of hierarchy; human connection, one human to another. Collaboration over direction.36:05 - Trying to heal according to someone else’s brief and tick-list.38:51 - TV that helps you feel your feelings and Schitt’s Creek LOVE! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
