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Miixed: Conversations About Chronic Illness and Relationships
by Kodi
Miixed explores mixed-ability relationships, chronic illness, intimacy, identity shift, and partnership. Hosted by An Issue with Kodi, Kodi invites couples and professionals to have conversations that are both relatable and resourceful for those seeking a community of others in mixed-ability relationships. Click follow to receive updates as each new episode is shared.
Episodes
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S2E7: Resentment in a Mixed-Ability Marriage | "I feel like I'm not an equal partner"
Resentment is the emotion nobody says out loud in a mixed-ability relationship - so we said it. In this mini episode, Kenyon shares a resentment he's never told me ( it involves Florida, and it wasn't the vacation), and I share the one I wrestle with every time I watch him work out - the body I...
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S2E6: "We're Building Another Relationship" | Mixed-Ability Couple Shares Their New Reality
When chronic illness changes a relationship overnight, how do you find a way forward together? Jillian and Ryan share how they're rebuilding their life as a couple while navigating new symptoms, uncertain diagnoses, and shifting roles. Jillian opens up about the grief of losing parts of the life...
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S2E5: "Why Is This My Reality?" | Mini-Episode with Mixed-Ability Partner about Grief
Grief is a powerful emotion, often tangled with our expectations and dreams. In this mini-episode, Kodi and Kenyon share their heartfelt perspectives on what it means to grieve in a mixed-ability relationship. Kenyon opens up about the grief over the life he envisioned before chronic illness...
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S2E4: "The Grief We Both Carry" | Conversations on Grief with Therapist and Author Eli Weinstein
Chronic illness can turn a marriage into a minefield of grief, guilt, and last-minute cancellations - But it does not have to turn partners into opponents. Therapist Eli Weinstein shares the dialogue to help couples stay on the same team while navigating chronic illness. Eli discusses his...
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S2E3: "I didn't want it to be the rest of my life" | Mini-Episode with Kodi and Kenyon
When chronic illness and sudden disability changed everything, Kodi and Kenyon share how they navigated identity, love, and an unexpected new reality together. A short, honest conversation about resilience, relationships, and remembering that your value never disappears is found in this mini...
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S2E2: "There is still joy to be had" | Trauma-informed Complementary Therapist Monica Munson speaks on Chronic illness and Identity
Trauma, chronic illness, and identity are deeply connected—and Monica Munson shares how small tools can help you reclaim your life. As a trauma-informed complementary therapist living with multiple chronic diagnoses, Monica opens up about the mindset shifts that can turn pain into purpose. In…
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S2E1: "I felt defective" | Mixed-Ability Couple Alanna and Elliot speak on Identity
Join Alanna and Elliott as they share their journey through chronic illness and caregiving. Discover how their relationship and identities transformed through challenges like endometriosis and kidney stones, leading to deeper understanding and resilience. This episode offers practical insights on...
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S1E6: Navigating Family & Friends | Expectation vs. Reality
In this episode my husband and I talk about our personal experiences of navigating the tricky dynamics that come from merging families and how that has gone with our unusual mixed-ability relationship. Topics include what support and understanding we hoped to have from family and friends (and…
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S1E5: Day-to-Day Dynamics | Keeping our Marriage Healthy while Balancing Chronic Illness
In this episode of An Issue with Kodi, Kodi and her husband Kenyon discuss the complicated day-to-day dynamics of touch and intimacy, balance within their roles, and what it is to have a social life and a sick life that are included within a relationship that also deals with chronic illness. Join...
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S1E4: Using Humor to Survive | The Best Unprescribed Medicine
In this episode Kodi and Kenyon share which chronic illness survival tool they could never live without: humor. Listen in as they share inside jokes and relatable stories as to why for them, laughter has always been the best medicine.
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S1E3: Money, Careers & Dreams | Redefining Success
In this episode Kodi and her husband Kenyon discuss the challenges of how chronic illness has impacted both of their careers and dreams, the pressures of being a breadwinner, the guilt of having to conserve energy to prevent flares, and how they've redefined success over the past decade.
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S1E2: The Emotional and Mental Load of Chronic Illness in our Marriage
In this episode Kenyon and Kodi dive deep into what the emotional and mental toll of living with chronic illness has done to their marriage. *Disclaimer* The original files for this episode got erased. There were two video files and the first videos' audio was recovered, but the second was lost…
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S1E1: Origin Tales | How my Husband and I Met
In this episode, Kodi and Kenyon introduce themselves and their story of what brought them together and what has kept them together the past 10 years. They had only been dating for two months when Kodi's health took a terrible turn, and hasn't recovered since. Listen to hear more from the dual…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Miixed explores mixed-ability relationships, chronic illness, intimacy, identity shift, and partnership. Hosted by An Issue with Kodi, Kodi invites couples and professionals to have conversations that are both relatable and resourceful for those seeking a community of others in mixed-ability relationships. Click follow to receive updates as each new episode is shared.
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Miixed explores mixed-ability relationships, chronic illness, intimacy, identity shift, and partnership. Hosted by An Issue with Kodi, Kodi invites couples and professionals to have conversations that are both relatable and resourceful for those seeking a community of others in mixed-ability...
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