Living with chronic illness is about far more than managing symptoms. It shapes your nervous system, your relationships and your sense of self. It can change the way you move through the world — and often means carrying an invisible weight that others don’t fully see.
That’s where CHRONICTALK COMMUNITY comes in.
CHRONICTALK COMMUNITY is a cyclical, trauma-informed group experience for people living with chronic illness who are also navigating trauma recovery. It offers a place to slow down, speak honestly and reconnect — without pressure to fix yourself or perform wellness.
This is not a program designed to cure your body.
It is a space designed to help restore what chronic illness often disrupts over time: safety, meaning, voice and connection.
One of the most painful messages people receive when living with chronic illness is that healing should be linear: improve, progress, return to normal.
But real life rarely works that way — especially when your body is dealing with long-term conditions and your nervous system has learned to brace for uncertainty. Healing tends to move in cycles. There are seasons of stability, seasons of grief, seasons of insight, and seasons where your relationships and boundaries need to be rebuilt.
CHRONICTALK COMMUNITY is structured around that reality.
CHRONICTALK COMMUNITY unfolds across four quarters, offering a steady rhythm of support and reflection throughout the year. Each quarter holds a different theme, allowing participants to explore their experience in a way that feels honest, grounded, and sustainable.
Stabilizing, grounding, restoring capacity
We begin by creating safety. This quarter focuses on nervous-system regulation, grounding practices, and rebuilding small pockets of energy — without pushing or forcing. The goal isn’t to “power through,” but to gently restore capacity and support your system in returning to steadiness.
Meaning-making and honoring lived experience
Here, lived experience becomes knowledge. Participants begin shifting identity from “broken” to “wise,” recognizing what their body and life have taught them. This quarter helps you reconnect with your inner knowing, and to see that survival itself carries intelligence.
Anger, grief, exhaustion, and injustice
This quarter makes space for emotions that are often held in silence. Chronic illness can bring anger, grief, resentment, and deep fatigue — not only from symptoms, but from what has been lost, dismissed, or misunderstood. In ChronicTalk, these emotions are welcomed, witnessed, and shared so they no longer have to be carried alone.
Communication and relational healing
In the final quarter, we focus on reclaiming voice, boundaries, and personal agency. Chronic illness changes relationships — sometimes in quiet ways, sometimes in heartbreaking ones. This quarter supports participants in learning how to communicate needs, set limits, and stay connected in relationships shaped by illness, trauma, and long-term care.
CHRONICTALK COMMUNITY is designed to be supportive without being overwhelming. Everything is offered with the understanding that capacity changes — and participation can be flexible.
Participants receive:
Monthly topic emails (2–3 per month) with education, reflection prompts, and grounding practices
A two-hour trauma-informed group gathering each month
A private Facebook community for connection and support between sessions
Participants are welcome to engage at their own pace — quietly or actively — based on their energy and needs.
CHRONICTALK COMMUNITY is not about pushing your body to become something it isn’t.
It’s about meeting yourself where you are — and slowly rebuilding what chronic illness can erode over time: safety in your own nervous system, trust in your lived experience, and connection that doesn’t require you to pretend you’re okay.
If you’ve been longing for a space where you don’t have to perform wellness — where you can be honest, witnessed, and supported in cycles — CHRONICTALK COMMUNITY is here.
You don’t have to carry it alone anymore.