Category Archives: Podcast

Episode 17 – When IBD Gets Married With Jaime Weinstein

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Getting married is a joyful time in one’s life. Until you have to bring your IBD along when you shop for your wedding dress, that is. Learn how Crohn’s disease affected Jaime’s perceptions about body image throughout her life and how it all culminated in a trip to a bridal shop that left her angry and frustrated. Plus, we share our best tips for making the dress shopping, and eventual wedding day dress wearing, go more smoothly if IBD decides to make make an appearance.

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We Are Not Unique With Christy Stone of Crohnie Bologna

Episode 16 – We Are Not Unique With Christy Stone of Crohnie Bologna

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Are you unique? Do you represent most patients with IBD? Christy Stone of Crohnie Bologna tells the story of her disease journey, how she feels that she’s not unique as an inflammatory bowel disease patient, why she chooses kindness, and why these things make her a better advocate.

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About IBD Podcast 15 – 2017 Year End Wrap-Up

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Welcome to the year-end wrap up show! I put together clips from my first 14 shows that drop the heaviest knowledge bombs about how life with IBD affects us, our careers, our relationships, and our stress levels.

Do you have an IBD Elevator Speech? I got you, here’s where you can learn to create yours after you listen to Brooke Abbott give hers: www.verywell.com/how-to-create-yo…r-speech-1942452

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About IBD Podcast 14 – We Are All Capable of More Than We Think With Brian Greenberg

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What are your goals? Are you taking steps each day to move towards those goals? Brian Greenberg, endurance athlete and president of Chronically Better You, tells us how he moved from goals after surgery—getting out of bed and making his own lunch—to training for an Ironman in 2018. People with IBD know the value of structure and Brian explains how he has learned to manage his life with Crohn’s disease and an ostomy through careful planning and setting goals.
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About IBD Podcast 13 – Growing Up IBD with Brian Greenberg

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Being diagnosed with IBD as a child presents special challenges for kids and for parents. Learn how Brian Greenberg of Intense Intestines Foundation dealt with a Crohn’s disease diagnosis at a young age and transitioned from being a child reliant on parents to help manage his IBD to learning how to manage it all himself.
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About IBD Podcast 12 – Don’t Let IBD Ruin Your Day

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Did you know that more than 70% of people with IBD have reported bathroom accidents (fecal incontinence)? Did you also know that only around 20% ask for help from their physicians? It’s a sensitive topic, to be sure, which is why I offer advice on how to cope with this problem and how to avoid it in the first place. If you’re struggling with this issue I have tips that you can use today but the best advice is to talk to your doctor about it (and I discuss that also!).

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About IBD Podcast 11 – Relieving Stress With Dr Tiffany Taft

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How does stress affect IBD? We know that stress does not cause IBD, but it does affect the disease. How does IBD actually cause stress, and what can we do to balance our lives in such a way that it does not affect us in a negative way? I talk with my guest, Dr Taft, about how she advises patients with chronic diseases on relieving stress and the tips and tools that have worked for her and her patients in integrating a comprehensive stress relief program into daily life.

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About IBD Podcast 1 – Let’s Talk About That Fungus Thing

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The first edition of my About IBD Podcast where I talk about this fungus fracas, how it relates to IBD, and why I’m not too worked up about IBD research done on mice.

Music:
Happy Rock – Bensound.com – http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

 

About IBD Podcast 2 – Let’s Talk About “The Talk” With Your Partner

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The second edition of the About IBD Podcast where I talk with 3 women with IBD about their experiences in telling their partners about their illness.

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About IBD Podcast 3 – My J-Pouch Is My BFF

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On this episode of the About IBD Podcast, I discuss j-pouches and bust some of the misconceptions that surround them. I also give my firsthand experience as a poucher, a j-poucher who gave birth twice, and let you in on what it’s like for me to have a midline scar.

Music:
Dance – Bensound.com – www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music