74: Managing chronic illness (Personal, Emotional, Social) | Joelle Prevost

Are you someone who is having trouble managing through the personal, emotional, and social aspects of a chronic illness? Joelle Prevost, a registered Counsellor from British Columbia, Canada discusses strategies and her new workbook of how to deal with these factors. We also discuss how families and friends of those surrounding someone with a chronic illness can support their loved ones.

Workbook: https://a.co/d/1kjOC5H

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Joelle Prevost holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology, is a registered clinical counselor (British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors), has a teaching degree, and has her own personal experience with chronic illness as she was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis in 2011. In private practice, Prevost works with individuals experiencing communication challenges, anxiety, trauma, and, of course, chronic illness. In her spare time, she writes music, makes cold-process soap, plays pool, and enjoys hanging out with her cat and dog in her native British Columbia, Canada.

For more information, visit www.JLPrevost.com.

 

Chapters:

00:00-Intro

02:16-Managing Personal, Emotional and Social Aspects of Chronic Illness

09:45-Setting boundaries - Joelle’s 3rd book

14:45-Setting boundaries at work versus personal life

18:00-3 aspects of chronic illness

24:50-Relationship challenges and chronic illness

30:15-Being forced to deal with personal, emotional, and social aspects

32:00-Having a balanced attitude

34:00-Joelle’s YouTube channel

35:00-What is chronic illness?

37:40-People who don’t have chronic illness want it to have a finish line

41:32-Coaching family members on how to support those with chronic illness

44:18-Supporting children with chronic illness

47:35-Don’t you want to get better?

51:10-Loneliness and chronic illness

57:08-Social media comments to create connection

01:00:20-Adult bullying

01:06:15-How to talk to an adult bully?

01:08:20-Joelle’s curiosities

01:10:20-Are there things about people that get you frustrated?

01:12:45-Online counselling

01:18:40-Inside Out 2

01:19:30-Wrap-up