Today I talk to my friend Elizabeth Ann about Living with Chronic Illness. Elizabeth is a Music Therapist who herself has living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for many years now. We thought it was time to have a discussion about Chronic Illness which is so prevalent in our society now days and so poorly misunderstood.

Elizabeth’s journey of Chronic Illness lead her to change her career and she went back and retrained to become a music therapist. Reinvigorating her long love affair with music and being a musician, which is a natural talent that she is incredibly gifted with, and supporting others on their health journey through the therapeutic modality of music therapy.

In this episode we talk about:

What music therapy is and how it can support you in your health journey,
What Chronic Fatigue is and the systems in the body it affects,
How living with Chronic Illness impacts on the relationships in our lives and the power dynamics that exist within them,
How music, dance and singing are a tool that connects us with our past stories and history,
How becoming chronically ill can support us to get really good at expressing our boundaries,
How our current cultural paradigm makes it hard to heal and function because we need so much more downtime,
How illness can become our identity if we are not careful,
The notion of what wellness actually is and having the identity of being unwell can be really disempowering for some people,
How to clean out your cupboards to detox your life. If you want to reference the Dirty Dozen food list we talk about click on the link.

Please contact me if you would like to get in contact with Elizabeth regarding Music Therapy and I can forward on your enquiry to her.