Chronic illness
We support and affirm people living with chronic illnesses and disabilities and their right to safety, pleasure, autonomy, care and support.
Living with chronic illness is complicated and often incredibly isolating. It can be lonely, exhausting and disempowering to navigate the healthcare system, insurance institutions, medical trauma, managing energy/capacity for daily life, work, relationships, grief and loss, safe housing - all while coping with symptoms that likely significantly impact your ability to engage in these areas.
We understand that for a lot of people, living with chronic illnesses is a lifelong process and it may evolve as you age, symptoms worsen or get better, new diagnoses are added, or as other life changes happen. We can help you identify your needs, help come up with coping strategies that work for you, process the way that illness impacts your relationships - with self, others, and the world - and identify the ways that living in an ableist society will blame you rather than support you, which often leads to internalized ableism. We understand how all of these factors are complicated further by institutional racism, transphobia, saneism, queerphobia and fatphobia.
