Finding Strength In Chronic Illness & Care Giving
Black Girl Burnout
Kelley Bonner
4.7 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Black Girl Burnout podcast, host Kelley focuses on coping strategies for those dealing with chronic illness or caregiving for someone with a chronic condition. Kelley shares her personal journey with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), emphasizing the importance of acknowledging pain and seeking medical help instead of suffering in silence. She discusses the challenges of navigating the healthcare system as a black woman and the necessity of self-advocacy for a proper diagnosis and treatment.
For caregivers, she highlights the importance of understanding limitations, setting personal boundaries, and focusing on self-care amidst the challenges of providing support. More, more, and still more is within your reach in 2024. Tune in today and prepare yourself to engage in realistic strategies that can help you with opting into a life filled with abundance and joy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast, Kelly here. |
| 0:12.8 | And today we are talking about how to cope if you have chronic illness or if you are caregiving for someone who has chronic illness. |
| 0:20.6 | A lot of this month is about prevention. |
| 0:23.0 | I also want us to focus on understanding that prevention can also mean not just never having an illness |
| 0:29.7 | or completely avoiding and being fortunate enough to never get one, |
| 0:34.0 | but it should also be about preventing an existing illness or health challenge |
| 0:40.0 | we may have from getting worse. And this month is just as much about that as it is about preventing |
| 0:46.7 | something from ever happening in the first place. I also want to highlight people who have |
| 0:51.9 | chronic illness and caregivers of folks with chronic illness |
| 0:56.7 | because oftentimes, frankly, we are invisible and we feel immense amount of shame that makes us |
| 1:08.0 | silent and keeps us putting on that strong black woman mantle that is killing us. |
| 1:17.6 | I talk about this quote that's one of my favorites and I say it all the time. |
| 1:23.5 | It's Zornil Hurston who said, if you are silent about your pain, they will kill you and say you |
| 1:29.4 | enjoyed it. And I've talked about it this week already, but I also believe it to be true when it |
| 1:36.4 | comes to folks with chronic illness, that oftentimes we have grown up being conditioned to minimize |
| 1:43.3 | our pain, to make other people comfortable, |
| 1:46.6 | and to minimize our pain so that we don't look or feel weak. |
| 1:51.1 | And it is in those very unhealthy mindset that we make an already challenging situation, |
| 1:57.7 | especially if you have a chronic illness, worse. |
| 2:03.9 | And we avoid getting the help to make it better. I can only speak from my own personal experience and tell you that I made my life harder |
| 2:11.2 | by denying the pain I was in. And the truth is, you will always make your life harder if you deny the pain you |
| 2:19.4 | are in. Whether it's physical or emotional or spiritual, it will always be harder. By trying to be the |
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