119. How to Feel Confident in Your Body With a Chronic Illness ft March Hollingbery
Wednesdays
JamPot
4.2 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Heyyyy Tinies!
Happy New Year’s Eve!!
We’re ending the year on a high with a very special guest: Melissa’s oldest friend, the gorgeous March Hollingbery. March is a chronic illness coach who supports women living with chronic illness to feel more confident and at home in their bodies.
The girls deep dive into everything from unlearning toxic productivity and navigating relationships, to advice on how to be a supportive friend to someone who’s living with a chronic illness.
Plus, Melissa and March are put to the test with the Cosmopolitan Quiz of 2025. Who else forgot that Katy Perry went to space this year?!
In this week’s dilemmas, one Tiny has recently been diagnosed with endometriosis and wants to know how to feel sexy and beautiful.
Another Tiny needs advice after her boyfriend won’t stop following a girl he used to like, even after she’s told him it makes her uncomfortable. Is she overreacting or is this a simple fix?
Enjoy the episode x
Follow March on Instagram: @march_on_
Sign up to March’s Chronic Illness Community here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeXwi9UY4t9-TmUiSXK1g46jS2iu52_4f4kUNmiZKMUgM5oUA/viewform?usp=dialog
See the links below for more information and support on chronic illnesses:
CISFA UK: https://www.instagram.com/cisfa_uk/?hl=en
Got a dilemma, some personal advice for a fellow Tiny, or a follow-up to a previous one? Send us a voice note or message on Insta @wednesdayspodcast, or drop us an email at wednesdays@jampotproductions.co.uk
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's episode, we have my lovely friend March, my oldest friend, who is a chronic illness coach. |
| 0:10.0 | Hi, tinys. I'm going to be giving some advice on how to live with chronic illness. |
| 0:13.6 | We're also going to be doing the Cosmopolitan 2025 quiz of the year. And we've also got our lovely juicy dilemmas as normal enjoy the episode |
| 0:22.8 | I'm here guys happy new year's eve it's a big day I hope you've had the most amazing day |
| 0:35.6 | in night or you're about to or you've. I'm here today with one of my oldest friends, March, Hollingbury. So March basically, you know, when you first go to a school and you have a guide that like sticks with you for that first day and shows you the ropes. That was you, you don't remember. Obviously not. I remember it so well. Do you really not remember that? |
| 0:54.5 | I literally have no recollection of this. |
| 0:56.1 | Oh my God, March. |
| 0:56.8 | Maybe because it was a big thing for me going to a new school. Because you probably didn't know everyone. Oh, I didn't know anybody and it was like a big scary day for me. So that's like an imprinted memory. That's why we're still friends. Probably. Do you have any memories of me being the guide? |
| 1:09.3 | It's been a long time. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.7 | I remember our whole first day. |
| 1:12.6 | Not every detail, but I remember your hair being in a bun. Do you remember the bun you used to wear? No, tell me. It's so cute. You used to have your little fringe that you'd tuck over one side, side. Oh, the low down bun. And the low done, like, messy barn. And I thought it was so cool. |
| 1:28.0 | It is all coming back. |
| 1:29.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.0 | Do you want to tell us a little bit about what you do as a chronic illness coach? |
| 1:34.1 | So I'm a chronic illness coach. |
| 1:35.6 | And I help women who are diagnosed with all different types of chronic illnesses |
| 1:39.2 | feel more confident in their bodies. |
| 1:42.1 | And that's in their decisions, in their life, in their self-worth, how accepting they feel of |
| 1:48.0 | themselves, just help them feel more empowered with the situation, basically. |
| 1:51.7 | So I was born with a syndrome and it affects like all the major organs of the body. |
| 1:56.9 | So I was born with one kidney, had no esophagus that joined to my stomach, have severe scoliosis, as you know, so that's curvature of your spine. |
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