10 | Body scan meditation

16 | Rethinking Lyme Disease

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month and I am so happy to share this conversation with Courtney Schutze from Splash of Lyme. Courtney is hosting her second Crushing Lyme awareness campaign this month. In this discussion we discuss Courtney's journey to a diagnosis of chronic Lyme, how it has changed her life, and how tools like journaling, meditation, and acceptance have supported her healing.

Lyme disease is often overlooked and misrepresented. I so admire people like Courtney who are willing to authentically share their health journeys to raise awareness and compassion.

GET TO KNOW COURTNEY SCHUTZE

• Follow Splash of Lyme on Instagram
• Courtney's post on living with Lyme
• Courtney's website

Rethinking how to truly let it out with Katie Dalebout

I love this episode because it's two friends just talking about our lives. Katie and I explore our complicated relationships with social media, why mental health matters, and how we're both trying to live less in our heads and more in our bodies.

This episode is brought to you by Let [a podcast] Out - Katie's DIY podcasting workshop. I created RETHINKING IT because of Let [a podcast] Out. By the end of the workshop, my first three episodes were recorded, edited, and released! I was the round one winner of the contest and an episode of my podcast was featured on Katie's podcast, Let it Out with Katie Dalebout! Registration for the spring 2020 class of Let [a podcast] Out is open now + early bird pricing ends on March 15. You can save an additional $25 with the code STEPHANIE.

14 | Rethinking wholeness + illness with Hilary Pearlson

"I have chronic illness and this is my normal. And that's okay." Hilary Pearlson is sharing her journey through a bone marrow transplant and healing from Ramsay Hunt Syndrome. Together we explore how to let go of our old lives and dreams and routines in order to surrender to the reality of living with chronic illnesses.

Chronic illness doesn't have to mean that we can't live a whole and full life. It means, though, that we have to rethink what wholeness looks like for us given the reality of illness. Hilary has reframed her experience to allow her to find purpose and connection. But she doesn't gloss over the dark moments. She vulnerably shares both the lessons and the struggles.

GET TO KNOW HILARY PEARLSON
HILARY PEARLSON is a Kundalini yoga and meditation teacher, intuitive guide, writer and creator of the conscious lifestyle blog, The Dreamerie. She was inspired to do this work through her health journey, living with chronic illness and surviving a bone marrow transplant at 21 years old.

In her practice she empowers clients to be their own healer, connect to clarity, clear space and live with intention.

She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY and works with clients virtually around the world as well as through her membership site, The Dreamer’s Collective.

LINKS

• Blog post about Hilary's bone marrow transplant
  * Blog post about Ramsay Hunt Syndrome
• Simply breathwork practice
• It's Not Your Money: How to Live Fully from Divine Abundance

13 | Rethinking the promise of a diagnosis

It wasn’t until the doctor told me that my illness was incurable and untreatable that I realized how much I was clinging to the hope of a “cure” for whatever was wrong with me.

In this episode of RETHINKING IT, I am opening up about my recent health diagnosis and how it is forcing me to rethink my journey and what health and wholeness will look like for me.

Closing music: Moby Long Ambients1 Calm. Sleep. | Track LA1

My writing on chronic illness

12 | Rethinking grief and loss with Lisa Nagel

In this episode, I explore grief and loss with Lisa Nagel. Our shared intention for this conversation is to support anyone moving through grief and to create the space to invite healing. Lisa shares so many insights around the grief process, how our society treats loss and grief, and what she means when she says that grief is an invitation. She also helps me rethink how I look at self-care by sharing a question she asks herself and her clients. It completely changed my approach to caring for myself in moments of stress, grief, or illness and I'm so grateful.

GET TO KNOW LISA NAGEL

LISA NAGEL is a guide and intuitive helping womxn resolve and heal personal and inherited trauma, move through grief with grace and live a life of sustainable aliveness and tenderly being fully human. She believes in gentle bravery, transformation that lasts and remembering that our stories aren’t over yet. Everything is still possible.

You can find her at wildsensitivesouls.com and follow her @wildsensitivesouls.

Lisa has created free playlists to help you feel and move through your grief. Listen to them here.