Trusting Your Body When You Have a Chronic Illness - Interview with my Friends series - Shelby Hansen

I have so many friends and some loved ones who live with chronic conditions, Shelby knows a lot about this and has so much wisdom to share. Her perspective will be a gift to you if this is something you relate to or have a loved one who is going through it. And so when I invited her onto the podcast and she said yes, I knew you would love to meet her and I was so excited to share her with you. 

She’s doing some important work with others out there. And I think if you are looking for a coach who specifically can help you with managing chronic illness and still live vibrantly, then she’s your gal. I love how her message is to live vibrantly, you’ll learn more what she means by that. 

Shelby has such an amazing life with so many hardships. In the podcast she goes a little bit more in detail about it. Her insight about chronic illness and supporting loved ones with chronic conditions is something you don't want to miss. She had to have a kidney transplant at such a young age, and it rocked her and her families world. She talks about how she coped and her mindset about death and trials. 

Shelby talks about rebuilding trust with your body and being able to live vibrantly and still do fun things while living with chronic illness. She has such great insights on the fear of missing out on behalf of yourself or loved ones. 

It’s so fascinating the link between how our brains and our bodies work. And also the emotional component of how a diagnosis affects our body. There are ways we can help our bodies with working with our bodies, more than the acceptance piece, but how to shift into working with the body and create some safety in the body. That one liner, Calm is catching. The compassion of noticing this is hard, but honoring that part of us dealing with hard things and being honest with ourselves in a radically compassionate way. 

Mindset coaching is powerful, as many of you know. But it’s tricky to just shift your mindset when you don’t feel neutral about your circumstance or diagnosis. 

To listen to the conversation and all of the details she shares about life and continuing to trust your body with chronic illness, listen to episode 57 on the podcast today. (you'll find the episode player above.)