The Lady's Illness Library
The Lady’s Illness Library is a collection of stories about unconventional illness journeys. Here, you won’t find prescriptive health tips or quick fixes, but exploratory conversations that seek to understand these immense human experiences. Diseases that are multifaceted, sort-of-undiagnosed, and debilitating–think autoimmunity, long COVID, migraine–are more common than ever, affecting majority women. And yet, despite their growing ubiquity, they still live beneath the surface of our culture.
Let’s change that.
Podcasting since 2024 • 6 episodes
The Lady's Illness Library
Latest Episodes
Creative Priorities Redefined with Erica Vipond of A Novel Idea
What happens when chronic illness forces you to prioritize your life’s passions? In this conversation, Rachel Katz interviews Erica Vipond, a fiction writer diagnosed with a nerve-affecting autoimmune condition, to explore how these challenges ...
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Episode 6
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57:30
Very ambitious and very ill with Emma Simpson of Lemon Soul
If you're sick of the one-size-fits-all approach to managing illness, Emma Simpson's story will resonate with you. This conversation encourages us to reject the pressure to adhere to conventional wellness practices and instead personalize our r...
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Episode 5
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58:23
Sara Tasker on chronic fatigue and invisible disabilities
Ever feel like you're battling some kind of weird, unexplainable health issue that even doctors can't seem to get a grip on? Writer and influencer Sara Tasker gets refreshingly honest about her decades-long journey with chronic fatigue, narcole...
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Episode 4
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43:08
Autoimmune dichotomy: holding grief and joy at the same time
In this heartfelt episode, Rachel sits down with Julia Edelman to discuss her ten-year journey with uveitis, an autoimmune disorder affecting the retina. They explore the roller coaster of emotions Julia has experienced through the medical chal...
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Episode 3
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55:46
Living With Migraines: From Control To Creation
What does life look like when frequent migraines sap your energy? How do you find meaning in this context? Host Rachel Katz explores this question with Substack writer Amber Horrox, who shares her journey with chronic illness in her newsletter,...
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Episode 2
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42:21