How to Find Healing with Chronic Illness with Meghan O'Rourke

How do we reform healthcare and our discourses around medicine and sickness to accommodate the fact that our bodies aren't always these tidy containers that behave exactly like everyone else's? Welcome to the One You Feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have. Quotes like, garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think ring true, and yet for many of us our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.

We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.

This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, how they feed their good wolf. Thanks for joining us. Our guest on this episode is Megan O'Rourke, a journalist, poet, and New York Times bestselling author. Her work often tackles challenging subjects like grief, illness, and more. Megan's previous books include the best-selling memoir The Long Goodbye and the acclaimed poetry collections Sun in Days, Once and Half-Life.

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