This is for you, spouses and friends, coworkers and caregivers, doctors and medical professionals, family members, casual acquaintances, and the entire general public:

• Because we know you don’t understand what’s happened to the person you used to know.
• Because we know you have no frame of reference for chronic illness and how it differs from its acute counterparts.
• Because we know most of you truly desire to say something helpful and encouraging, but you have NO EARTHLY IDEA what that might be.
• And because this darn chronic illness thing doesn’t come with so much as a flyer, let alone a handbook.

Join me—a clinical counselor AND a professional patient—as I draw back the protective curtain just for you and reveal the words the chronically ill person in YOUR life wishes they could hear from YOU.

It’s time to talk about

#whatweneedtohear

(You’re welcome.)

COMING SOON!!!