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Life can move fast when your health changes, and the pressure to “figure it all out” can take over your days. We sit down with Kodi Adamson, a writer, advocate, wife, and mom who has spent the past decade learning how to live with chronic illness while protecting her marriage, her identity, and her joy. She shares what happened when her health shifted early in her relationship and how honesty and humor helped, but also why she needed something deeper to get through the hardest stretches.
Kodiopens up about a traumatic event around Christmas 2024 and the decision to take a step back in 2025. Instead of chasing every diagnosis and answer, she focuses on a practical, body-aware reset: a three-part list that helps her find what still feels like her. She revisits old interests, tests them in real life, and then makes a clear call on each one: keep it, adjust it, or drop it. The result is fewer distractions, less overwhelm, and more emotional clarity, especially when chronic pain, fatigue, and uncertainty make everything feel heavier.
We also talk about what happens after bad doctor news and how easy it is to slip into fight-or-flight choices that don’t actually help. Kodi shares the small set of “favorites” that reliably pulls her out of a spiral, like painting, puzzling, playing piano, and riding an e-bike, plus the permission to keep simple comforts that work. If you’re looking for chronic illness coping strategies, relationship resilience, and a realistic way to rebuild self-worth, this quick, focused conversation offers a tool you can try today. Subscribe, share with someone who needs it, and leave a review with the one activity that brings you back to yourself.
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Meet Cody And Her Story
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0:41
Today
I'm
joined
by
Cody,
who
is
a
writer,
advocate,
wife,
and
mom
who
has
spent
the
last
decade
navigating
life
with
chronic
illness,
alongside
love,
parenting,
and
all
the
messy
realities
in
between.
After
her
health
dramatically
changed
early
in
her
relationship,
Cody
and
her
partner
faced
challenges
that
tested
everything
they
thought
they
knew
about
marriage,
resilience,
and
partnership.
Through
honesty,
humor,
and
a
whole
lot
of
lived
experience,
Cody
shares
what
chronic
illnesses
taught
her
about
relationships,
self-worth,
and
survival.
Not
the
polished
version,
but
the
real
one.
Join
me
in
welcoming
Cody
Adamson
to
the
table.
A Year Off From Chasing Diagnoses
SPEAKER_01
1:20
What
have
you
found
to
be
the
most
beneficial
other
than
humor
way
to
kind
of
walk
through
those
challenging
times?
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1:31
Well,
I'm
actually
actually
so
that
was
like
something
I
really
explored
this
past
year.
Um
I'll
just
I
don't
want
to
get
too
too
heavy
on
like
something
that
happened.
I
had
a
very
traumatic
thing
though
happen
Christmas
of
2024.
So
2025,
I
just
needed
to
take
the
year
off.
Like
I
just
needed
to
not
chase
all
of
my
problems.
Like
I
had
to
go
to
a
few
doctors'
things
for
a
handful
of
issues
that
were
rather
like
acute,
like
couldn't
ignore
them.
But
otherwise,
like
I
didn't
chase
for
answers,
I
didn't
chase
for
diagnoses.
And
then
what
I
took
the
time
to
do
was
like
actually
The Three-List Joy Reset
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2:11
really
explore
this.
Like,
what
makes
me
feel
like
me?
And
I
created
this
list
where
I
had
three
sections,
right?
So
the
first
section
was
I
wrote
things
I
used
to
enjoy.
And
that
could
just
be
in
any
phase
of
my
life
from
when
I
was
a
kid
to
even
presently,
things
I
used
to
enjoy.
And
then
I
would
go
and
do
that
thing
again.
Um,
like,
like
for
example,
I
used
to
play
at
open
mics
a
lot.
I
used
to
sing
and
and
play
my
instruments
and
and
everything
like
that.
So
I
would
I
went
to
the
open
mic,
tried
it
out
again,
and
then
like
I
really
paid
attention
to
like
how
am
I
feeling?
Do
I
feel
myself?
Do
I
feel
grounded
right
now?
And
then
so
that's
where
it
would
lead
to
my
second
section,
which
was
keep,
adjust,
or
drop.
So
either
I
keep
it,
like,
okay,
yeah,
I
feel
I
feel
good
right
here,
or
I
didn't
quite
feel
it.
So
I'm
gonna
adjust
it,
try
again,
or
like,
you
know
what?
Nope,
that
wasn't
me
at
all.
I've
I'm
I've
I've
that
part
of
me
is
just
gone
now.
And
so
I
would
just
drop
it.
And
then
I
that
third
section
just
allowed
me
to
kind
of
write
those
notes
of
just
like,
okay,
this,
I
think
I
need
to
adjust
this,
and
this
is
how
I'm
going
to
adjust
it.
And
I'm
gonna
try
it
this
way
next
time,
or
any
other
thoughts
that
would
come
up
about
it.
And
so
honestly,
by
the
end
of
the
year,
I
told
my
therapist,
I
was
like,
turns
out
I
was
doing
a
lot
of
things
that
like
weren't
good
for
me.
I
was
just
like
spitting
myself
out
there
in
the
world,
just
like
trying
to
find
joy,
trying
to
find
dopamine,
honestly,
half
the
time.
Just
something
to
like
feel
like
I'm
enjoying
my
life.
And
I
said,
I
was
just
doing
a
lot
that
like
I
didn't
enjoy.
I
said,
Turns
out
by
the
end
of
the
year,
I
only
have
like
four
or
five
things
that
like
I
really
enjoy
that
like
I
really
sit
with
it
and
I
want
to
do
it
and
I
feel
myself.
And
he's
like,
that's
normal.
It's
like
it's
not
normal
to
have
like
25
things.
I
was
like,
Oh,
I
did.
So
overachiever.
I
wasn't
trying.
I
think
my
brain
just
like
was
never
really
checking
in
with
like,
does
this
actually
feel
like
me?
Cause
like
you
hear,
you'll,
you
know,
you'll
see
like
trends
online.
You're
like,
well,
that's
cool.
I'll
try
that,
or
you
know,
and
so
I
was
collecting
just
too
much,
and
I
was
like
overwhelming
my
system
with
just
nothing
that
really
helped
me
enjoy
who
I
am,
or
to
like
climb
out
of
like
really
Using Favorites To Avoid Spirals
SPEAKER_00
4:44
rough
moments.
So
like
I
just
had
another
like
phase
of
one
of
my
so
this
year
I'm
now
starting
to
go
back
to
like
trying
to
figure
things
out
with
my
body
and
the
past
doctor
appointment
I
had
gave
me
some
news
that
I
didn't
love.
So
I
was
sad,
ate
some
chocolate
because
that's
one
of
my
things.
Turns
out
not
dropping
chocolate.
Nope.
Turns
out
that
is
on
the
favorite
list,
on
the
top.
And
then
I
came
home
though
and
I
painted.
And
normally
I
would
have
gone
and
done
something
arguably
like
borderline
reckless
because
I
have
really
bad
habits
of
like,
I
don't
like
my
life.
I'm
gonna
do
something
wild.
Um,
instead,
though,
because
of
the
year
I
had,
I
took
that
information
from
my
list
and
I'm
like,
I
need
to
paint
right
now.
And
my
insides
were
like,
no,
we
need
to
run,
we
need
to
go
and
explore
because
of
that
fight
or
flight.
Yeah.
And
like
that
like
grip
with
like
mortality
that
sometimes
is
just
really
hard
to
face.
Um
but
instead
I
came
home
and
I
painted
and
like
I
was
able
to
just
like
pull
myself
out
of
that
dragging
down
type
feeling
so
much
easier
by
the
end
of
the
day.
Anyways,
I
just
kind
of
went
off
on
a
minute
there,
but
it's
just
something
I
was
like
really
explored
this
past
year,
so
I'm
really
passionate
about
it.
So
that's
just
so
painting,
um,
puzzling,
playing
piano.
Um,
those
are
kind
of
my
things
that
I
oh,
and
riding
an
e-bike.
And
my
husband
got
me
one
for
Christmas.
So
those
are
like
my
four
things
is
that
like
I
do
any
one
of
those,
and
it
just
really
helps
me
feel
myself
and
feel
like
I'm
enjoying
life
again.
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6:24
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