Love your Diagnosis

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By: Lainie Chait

Love Your Diagnosis is a podcast that dives deep into the world of health, wellness, and empowerment. In each episode of Love Your Diagnosis, we'll interview individuals who have successfully managed their diagnosis. These stories will showcase inspiring journeys of resilience, courage, and the pursuit of health in and outside of traditional Western medicine. My goal is to educate, discuss, build a community, support, and raise awareness around alternative approaches to health and empower listeners to get back in the driver's seat of their own well-being. Through our raw and honest discussions, we aim to provide the listener with valuable...

Surviving Military Sexual Trauma and addiction with Kimberly Clarke
#31
02/22/2024

In this episode I talk with the inspirational Kimberly Clark, a Navy veteran who used her biggest obstacles to find opportunities for empowerment and recovery. Kimberly talks about her horrific childhood and military sexual trauma experiences, her battles with addiction, and her road to recovery that made her an inspiration to those going through similar difficulties.

Because of her dedication to her own recovery, Kimberly has learned about the therapeutic benefits of Brazilian jiu-jitsu and the job of a peer support specialist, where she uses her personal experiences to help other veterans get well. Her writing and...


Kim Kid Curry talks living with MS and the importance of Vitamin D
#32
02/22/2024

As a 33 year radio broadcaster, Kim Curry was forced into retirement after a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis at age 50.

We discuss his life before, when he was a radio presenter and the crazy things he got up to during that time.

During the diagnosis, as in, what the symptoms where that led him to see a doctor and then about the lesions that started forming on his brain, the myelin disintegrating and how Vitamin D changed his world.

And finally, current day conversations about his book, the lifestyle choices he makes to prolong...


Joshua Shea talking about healing from Porn Addiction
#30
12/12/2023

Joshua Shea is a pornography addiction expert, certified betrayal trauma coach, therapeutic disclosure specialist and the author of four books about pornography addiction, including I’m Reading This Book About Porn Addiction For a Friend (2022).

Since 2018, Joshua has given more interviews about pornography addiction and betrayal trauma than anybody in the world. To date, he has internationally appeared on nearly 400 podcasts, television and radio shows using his wealth of research and personal story to promote the ideas that porn addiction spans all demographics and those with a problem should seek help before it’s too late. He also...


Amy Behimer on how to manage MS (multiple sclerosis) holistically
#29
08/26/2023

Amy Behimer is a multiple sclerosis warrior, wife, daughter, sister, aunt, friend, leader, pharmacist, and coach.   She uses her unique first hand experience, education, and training to help others shift from managing their autoimmune disease to creating autoimmune health using the thing that she credits for helping her LOVE HER DIAGNOSIS. 

Coaching!

As a doctor of pharmacy and certified health coach with expertise in functional medicine, habit change, and autoimmunity, she creates a space for those wanting to find the synergy between conventional and lifestyle medicine. 

Amy offers online courses, group coaching memberships, and...


Dale Allen-Rowse talking about holistically managing Dystonia
#28
08/07/2023

Dale Allen-Rowse and I unpack parts of his journey living with generalised Dystonia. We get to know Dale and really get an understanding of what Dystonia is, which is essentially part of the Tourette's family.

Below is a little excerpt from Dale:

"Do you know what it's like to be a teen and have to run for your life to avoid being put into Conversion Therapy? I do. Do you know what it's like to show up at your baptist minister father's funeral and be told that the reason he's dead is because of you...


Heather Hausenblaus talking managing Chrons Disease
#27
06/19/2023

Heather Hausenblas, PhD, believes we can have healthy and happy lives through simple wellness habits. She’s a health psychology expert, international award-winning scientist, public speaker, and best-selling author. Her research focuses on how our health habits effect our well-being.

Heather has published 7 books and over 100 scientific articles. She has appeared on radio shows and podcasts and her work has been featured in magazines such as SELF, Real Simple, Women’s World, O The Oprah Magazine, and dozens more as well as in news publications such as The Times London and The Chicago Tribune.

Even with...


Peter Hursey holistically managing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
#26
05/16/2023

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is quite a common experience for many people and yet it is very difficult to diagnose as it is a "syndrome" not necessarily a diagnosis.

Pete talks to me about his situation and how he went from being unable to be diagnosed for many years to finding out for himself how to manage and work with reducing the crippling fatigue that he was experiencing.

Pete currently lives in Tasmania and works internationally as a professional dowser/geomancer, healer, and life’s/ consciousness coach.

He is both a reiki and seichem ma...


Karese Laguerre talking Sleep and Airway Centred Disorders
#25
04/18/2023

Karese is a Registered Dental Hygienist and Myofunctional Therapist. She founded The Myo Spot, a practice aimed at amplifying oral wellness to whole body wellness.

Through tele-therapy she helps clients of all ages overcome tongue ties, TMJ disorders, sleep apnea, grinding, anxiety, and various breathing and orofacial dysfunction.

Passionate about education and self-help, she published Accomplished: How to Sleep Better, Eliminate Burnout and Execute Goals. When not working with clients globally she spends time with her husband and four kids.

We unpack how her four kids were misdiagnosed with other conditions when the...


Miles Levin talking Advocating for Epilepsy through Film
#4
03/20/2023

Miles is a filmmaker with lifelong epilepsy.

He is a board member on two epilepsy foundations and has long fought for the use of cinema to end stigma.

His recent epilepsy film Under the Lights played film festivals internationally and started conversations on representation with the public. He is developing and raising money to make the feature film, which he believes could be the most far reaching awareness effort ever done.

Under the Lights is the story of Sam, a boy with epilepsy, so desperate to feel like a normal kid, he goes...


Our Carlson talking advocating for Epilepsy through Music
#3
02/11/2023

What a bloody legend Carlson is!

Quite late into the diagnostic realm of having epilepsy at age 33 and 5 years later, even though he is still working it all out, he has leapt into the music scene and is now advocating for epilepsy through spoken word, with electronic music in the background.

What started as just shouting his frustration into a voice recorder about his diagnosis has now taken the music scene by storm.

So grateful to have someone like him dispelling myths, taking risks and educating through art and music.

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