In this episode, Susie and Erica chat about the intricacies of friendship when living with chronic illness.

Often, we don’t feel understood by our friends. With ebbing and flowing symptoms, what we are capable of on any given day can be confusing. Trust us… we don’t want to cancel plans. We don’t want to miss out! And we get into it in this episode.

We also dive into the need to sometimes set some boundaries with our friends, to protect our health and manage our symptoms. Did we mention it can get tricky?

Self-validation versus external validation? We even brave this topic.

Join us as we walk the line of this delicate conversation. And listen as Susie shares a ridiculous story of put-in-mouth disease! (She should know better.)

Oh! And a third cohost by the title of ‘Therapy’ joins us, and get used to it, because therapy gets thrown around a LOT in this podcast!

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PS: reminder that the average person on social assistance is 25% below the poverty line in the UK and 30% below the poverty line in Canada
https://campaign2000.ca/disability-poverty-report-card-2025/?utm_source=perplexity

Erica’s article: https://www.theartoftakingupspace.com/post/my-friend-has-a-chronic-illness-and-i-don-t-know-what-to-do

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