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New Chronic Illness Podcast Calls Out Ableism in Wellness Culture

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What’s new: Editor Lucy Pasha-Robinson launched the podcast “Chronic” via HuffPost UKon Tuesday. In an essay for HuffPost, Pasha-Robinson shared how her experience with endometriosis inspired her to create this podcast.

After being diagnosed in 2014, Pasha-Robinson wrote that she “bought into those marketing messages with all my earning power and the naivety of someone who hadn’t yet had much life experience.” A year later, she was hospitalized for a second, extensive operation and hormone treatment.

Pasha-Robinson then started to question wellness culture and realized that “its sermon of constantly striving to ‘fix’ something, and asking you to part with money in order to do so, is inherently ableist.” It was only in the years of grief

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