How to Find Healing with Chronic Illness with Meghan O'Rourke
The One You Feed
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In this episode, Meghan O’Rourke discusses how to find joy and healing while living with chronic illness. Meghan shares her personal journey through years of unexplained symptoms, misdiagnoses, and the frustrating search for answers. She delves into the intricate relationship between mind and body, exploring how our thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations intertwine in ways that challenge conventional medical understanding. We examine the role of stress, expectations, and societal pressures in shaping our experiences of illness and recovery.
Key Takeaways:
- The importance of viewing the body as an interconnected system rather than isolated parts
- How empathy and understanding from healthcare providers can significantly impact patient outcomes
- The challenges of managing symptoms like brain fog and fatigue, which can be harder to address than physical pain
- The need to balance advocating for oneself while resisting catastrophic thinking
- Rethinking what “healing” means in the context of chronic illness
For full show notes, click here!
Connect with the show:
- Follow us on YouTube: @TheOneYouFeedPod
- Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
- Follow us on Instagram
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | how do we reform health care and our discourses around medicine and sickness to accommodate |
| 0:05.7 | the fact that our bodies aren't always these tidy containers that behave exactly like |
| 0:10.4 | everyone else is. |
| 0:19.1 | Welcome to the one you feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. Quotes like, garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:40.6 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our |
| 0:45.9 | spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, |
| 0:52.2 | and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:55.3 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks, |
| 1:18.8 | and listeners everywhere rejoiced. |
| 1:20.8 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:21.6 | Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month |
| 1:24.6 | from an enormous library of popular audio book titles including |
| 1:28.4 | romantasy autobiographies true crime and more suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic |
| 1:36.5 | or even missing their flight amazon music unlimited now includes audible no way download the |
| 1:42.0 | amazon music app now to start listening. |
| 1:44.9 | Terms apply. |
| 1:49.0 | Hi, this is Ruthie Rogers, host of our podcast, Ruthie's Table 4. |
| 1:54.9 | There are many luxuries in life, but I have to say that going to see Ian McKellen was one of the great days of my life. |
| 1:56.7 | It's a joke that actors in the old days were not being paid enough money or getting enough to eat would say, |
| 2:02.8 | we're doing check off. |
| 2:04.4 | There's a practical pork pie in the third act. |
| 2:07.6 | Free, free food. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.