HeyJaredThe Chronic Illness Therapist
Disrupting the mental health and medical system for people with chronic, invisible illnesses. We will no longer accept lack of answers, empathy, and guidance from the professionals we are told to trust.
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Ep 129: What Athletes and Chronically Ill People Have in Common with Kelsey Ruffing LCPC (opens the original)
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If you've ever felt like nobody around you understands what it's like to lose your old identity to a diagnosis, this episode names that experience using language borrowed from an unlikely place: sport psychology. The same identity disruption athletes face after a career-ending injury shows up almost exactly the same way after a chronic illness diagnosis. In this episode, you'll hear from Kelsey Ruffing , MA, MS, LCPC, who draws a direct line between an athlete being ignored by a coach and a chro
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