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A mental health therapist serving clients with complex chronic illnesses and the therapists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and registered dietitians who serve them.

11/02/2026

I know how it feels to be told your symptoms are “just anxiety” or “just an eating disorder” when your body is clearly telling you something else.

Dr. Jen Gaudiani () explains why mast cell reactions and food fear can show up together, and why the best starting point is believing the patient, even when there’s no test. This might sound too simple, but when someone feels sick after eating, the fear that follows makes sense, and the goal becomes the least restrictive life possible, one food at a time. Save this for when you need the reminder, and share it with someone who’s been told it’s all in their head.💛

Listen to my full conversation with Jennifer Gaudiani on The Chronic Illness Therapist Podcast.🎙

Not medical advice, just one chronically ill counselor sharing what I've learned along the way.

10/30/2026

If your diagnosis took years, you’ve probably wondered whether you should have pushed harder, asked sooner, or said it differently.

Dr. Jessica Rabon sees the other side of this from inside a children’s hospital. She walked me through what changes when every specialist is in the same building. It’s not a story about trying harder. It’s about how the system is set up.

Blaming yourself for a delay the system created is a heavy thing to carry on top of being sick.

The full conversation is on the latest episode of The Chronic Illness Therapist podcast, along with what Jess sees in families who are stuck after a third admission. The link is in my bio.

10/30/2026

Sometimes we just need a little reminder to see how far we’ve come ✨

10/27/2026

Some of the hardest conversations Dr. Jessica Rabon has in the hospital aren’t about bad news. They’re with families who have no news at all.

When we talked, she described how often kids and parents tell her they’d rather hear something hard than keep hearing “everything looks normal.” I recognized that immediately, because I hear a version of it from adult clients who have spent years in that same waiting room.

If you’re there right now, nothing about your experience needs a diagnosis to be valid.

Jess and I talk about what she says to families in that limbo, and where I push a little further, on the latest episode of The Chronic Illness Therapist podcast. The link is in my bio, and the full blog post is on my website.

10/26/2026

If you learned that you were actually wrong about how much danger you thought your body was in, and you were able to reframe that for yourself and then practice some somatic awareness and all your pain went away, we love that for you. But please leave the rest of us alone with the evangelization of it all.

For CBT (and hence, PRT) to work, the evidence must match your reality.

And the reality is, too many people went and still go YEARS telling themselves “it’s not that bad” only to later find out that yes, it in fact WAS that bad.

10/21/2026

Imagine if we continued to think that scurvy was caused by a lack of morals 🤯

10/17/2026

Imagine if I spent the last 10 years perfecting my medication regimen, reducing my work hours while increasing my income, getting proper sleep, eating enough food consistently, and learning how to take really good care of my mental health, only to get on this app and try to tell you that all you needed to do to feel better is regulate your nervous system with my 8-week course.

Imagine.

Anyway, if you want the not quick fix to your chronic illness woes, follow along. We only talk about the whole person here, not the “holistic wellness”

And here’s my top tip for regulating your nervous system, btw, as a therapist who only works with people with complex medical needs:

Accommodate yourself. Use the shower chair or the walker or the wheelchair. Take naps. Use frozen and pre-chopped ingredients. Get a patient advocate to help you with your medical appts and keeping up with everything. And grieve the version of you that the world told you was the only way to have a sense of worth.

I promise, there’s life on the other side of all of that.

10/14/2026

If you’ve been told “body scans feed the fear,” you might want to listen to this, so you can make an informed decision about your own body.

Follow along for more actual evidence based chronic illness content.

10/13/2026

Spent the day teaching a chronic pain intensive, then went home and got a firsthand lesson from my own ribs.

There’s a version of pain education and nervous system regulation content that turns every sensation into a nervous system problem to manage. For a lot of people with chronic illness, that lands as one more voice saying their body is getting it wrong. Which, don’t you think would turn the fear signals UP, not down? But I digress.

Sometimes the more useful question is simpler: what has my body been doing for the last two hours?

Follow along and let us know in the comments: what’s a signal your body sends that you’ve been told is “just anxiety?”

Address

1249 Hartford Avenue SW
Atlanta, GA
30310

Telephone

+14049053391

Website

http://www.thechronicillnesstherapist.com/

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