Chronic and Iconic - Episode 5 - Finding Ourselves

Send us Fan MailWe received so many questions and we've answered them honestly and laughed a lot!Content warning: This podcast contains sensitive subjects. Contents may include medical trauma, physical assault, child birth, parenting, relationship breakdown and childhood trauma

Send us Fan MailIn today's episode we discuss how we found out about getting carer support through Direct Payments. What our experiences have been, how we've built a team of kick-ass women and how they have changed our lives for the better. We also touch on when things weren't great, how sometimes the carer can be amazing but just not gel with you (and that's ok!) and that it can occasionally feel exhausting to have someone with you most of the day. We like our down time and that can sometimes be a struggle when you have someone in your home.But overall, how lucky we are to have a team of girls with so many skills, from an amazing chef, a makeup artist, hairdressers, DIY Queens, and cleaning fairies that would make Kim & Aggie proud!Content warning: This podcast contains sensitive subjects. Contents may include medical trauma, physical assault, child birth, parenting, relationship breakdown and childhood trauma

Send us Fan MailIn today's episode we discuss divorce, finding happiness, dating and the lives we've built. We talk about dating disasters, one of us having a date walk out on them mid-way, being stuck in someone's flat as the lift broke and the other dipping their toe in the dating pool.We also discuss what we are looking for in a relationship and we celebrate each other and how far we've come to be the women we are todayContent warning: This podcast contains sensitive subjects. Contents may include medical trauma, physical assault, child birth, parenting, relationship breakdown and childhood traumaContent warning: This podcast contains sensitive subjects. Contents may include medical trauma, physical assault, child birth, parenting, relationship breakdown and childhood trauma

Send us Fan MailIn episode 5 we share some of our darkest times, including career, grief, divorce and heartbreak. However, it shaped us into the women we are today and made us stronger than ever.We also talk about how the Motability scheme opened our worlds and gave us freedom and independence. You probably know that we always try to find humour in everything but sometimes you just need raw honesty and to talk about being broken and how you rebuilt yourself. Content warning: This podcast contains sensitive subjects. Contents may include medical trauma, physical assault, child birth, parenting, relationship breakdown and childhood trauma

Send us Fan MailIn episode 4 we discuss our 20's - Our careers, mental struggles, major surgeries, online relationships that developed into the real world, meeting our (now ex) husbands, finding out we were pregnant and how we coped with it, despite our disabilities and how our confidence began to grow Content warning: This podcast contains sensitive subjects. Contents may include medical trauma, physical assault, child birth, parenting, relationship breakdown and childhood trauma

Send us Fan MailIn episode three we discuss teenage years. How despite the same diagnosis and treatments, we were very different in high school (one of us was the nerd and the other, was the wild child!). We also discuss becoming young adults, college and the start of entering the working world for one of us.Content warning: This podcast contains sensitive subjects. Contents may include medical trauma, physical assault, child birth, parenting, relationship breakdown and childhood trauma

Send us Fan MailJoin us for episode two where we discuss our childhood years. Feeling like medical experiments, a trip to Lourdes where Lisa thought she'd be cured and the impact of living with a disability as a child. Did we feel different? Did it impact on friendships? Tune in to find out!Content warning: This podcast contains sensitive subjects. Contents may include medical trauma, physical assault, child birth, parenting, relationship breakdown and childhood trauma

Send us Fan MailIn episode one, we discuss how we met, how we were first diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (with two very different stories) and the treatments we underwent.Content warning: This podcast contains sensitive subjects. Contents may include medical trauma, physical assault, child birth, parenting, relationship breakdown and childhood trauma