Sick Girl

Interview with founder of PLUS POUCH.

On this episode, I interview the hilarious Kirsten Cill to talk about her life with ⁠Cystic fibrosis⁠.

This episode explores pacing with chronic illness and the role music can play in bringing comfort, energy, and small moments of happiness while learning to live within your limits.  

In this episode, I sit down with a fellow comedian living with trigeminal neuralgia to talk about performing through chronic pain, navigating the medical system, and finding humor in the middle of something incredibly hard.  

Medical gaslighting is more common than people realize. In this episode, I share my experiences, break down what gaslighting can look like in healthcare, and talk about how it affects those living with chronic illness.

Traveling with chronic illness looks very different. In this episode, I talk about the realities of traveling while sick, what helps, what doesn’t, and how I navigate trips with limited energy, pain, and unpredictable symptoms.

Discovering what body positivity means to me. 

On this episode I interviewed a truly hilarious friend Becca Farewell! 

Difficulties of socializing and dating with chronic illness. 

In this episode, I’m opening up about Complex Regional Pain Syndrome—often called the “suicide disease” because of how relentless and misunderstood it is. I talk about what CRPS actually feels like, how it impacts daily life, the challenges of getting care, and what it means to live with constant pain that others can’t see.

Chronic illness changes a lot, but it hasn’t taken away my love for style. In this episode, I share how fashion brings me small moments of joy, helps me feel like me again, and gives me control in a body that often feels out of control.

Getting chronically ill flipped my life upside down—but no one handed me a guidebook. In this episode, I’m sharing the things I wish someone had told me when I first got sick. From medical gaslighting to managing energy to losing parts of your identity, this is the real talk I needed back then—and maybe you do too.

Living with chronic illness means grieving the version of yourself you used to be. In this episode, I talk about the emotional rollercoaster of losing your old life, learning to accept your new reality, and why acceptance doesn’t mean giving up.

Episode 2: The Trifecta – POTS, MCAS, and hEDS In this episode, we're diving into the chaotic trio known as the Dysautonomia Trifecta: POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome), MCAS (Mast Cell Activation Syndrome), and hEDS (Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome). I break down what each one is, how they show up in my life, and why so many chronically ill people are stuck managing all three. If your body’s allergic to being upright, food, and itself—this one’s for you.

Before I became the "Sick Girl," I was living a completely different life. Working, & & performing. Then I got Covid, and nothing was the same after that. In this first episode, I’m taking you back to the beginning: life before Long Covid, how I got sick, what changed, and why I started this podcast. This is the start of something honest, raw, and maybe even a little funny.