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The Invisible Illness Club | Chronic Illness, Auto Immune

April Aramanda, Invisible Illness Club

The Invisible Illness Club is a podcast and community for people living with chronic illness and the grief, faith questions, identity shifts, and everyday realities that come with life in a difficult to manage body. Hosted by April, each episode offers honest conversations rooted in Christian faith and lived experience. Here, you do not have to make your pain sound prettier, rush toward a lesson, or pretend you are fine. There is room for grief, anger, uncertainty, laughter, hope, and trusting God

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075 When Your Labs Are “Normal” but You Still Feel...

The Invisible Illness Club | Chronic Illness, Auto... ·

2026/10/06

The results say everything looks normal. You still feel exhausted, foggy, or unlike yourself. What do you do with the distance between those two things?In this IIC conversation, April talks with healthcare attorney and author Joy Stephenson-Laws about asking questions when lab results have not explained how you feel. Joy shares how her work and her mother’s experiences with medical care shaped her interest in patient advocacy and her book, Your Labs Are Fine. You’re Not. They discuss understanding

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074 A Valley of Worship: Faith When You’re Still Hurting

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2026/09/29

You pray for healing and wake up hurting again. You pray for answers, and another test leaves you with more questions. What does worship look like in that kind of waiting?In this episode of The Invisible Illness Club, April reflects on a valley of worship: turning toward God in the middle of pain, disappointment, exhaustion, and prayers that still feel unanswered. Through Habakkuk’s honest questions and the words “though” and “yet,” this conversation explores faith that makes room for what is

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68:51

073 Learning to Enjoy Life With Chronic Illness, with...

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2026/09/22

What does it mean to enjoy your life when illness still shapes it?For Lauren Watt, that question includes eight years spent largely in bed, the loss of expected teenage milestones, and the work of building an adult life with ongoing health limitations. Lauren became ill at fourteen. While her peers were learning to drive and graduating, her days were often shaped by pain, fatigue, sensory sensitivity, and the effort of getting through ordinary tasks. Even when her body began to improve, the

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12:47

072 The Fear That Never Fully Leaves: Living With...

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2026/09/15

A familiar ache. A lower energy day. A call from the doctor's office. A test result in the patient portal.Sometimes one small moment is enough to send the mind racing toward the next flare, the next cancellation, or the next piece of news that could rearrange life again. The fear is not only about what is happening now. It carries the memory of what your body and heart have already survived. In this episode of The Invisible Illness Club, April names the fear that often remains beneath chronic

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071 How to Talk to Children About Chronic Illness,...

The Invisible Illness Club | Chronic Illness, Auto... ·

2026/09/08

Trigger Warning: This episode includes conversations about cancer, chronic and terminal illness, death, anticipatory grief, and talking with children about a loved one’s health.Children notice the canceled plans, appointments, changes in energy, and uncertainty that enter family life when someone they love is ill. When adults do not explain what is happening, children often create explanations of their own. In this episode, April talks with author, illustrator, cancer survivor, and Mighty + Bright

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12:34

070 The Apology Habit: You Do Not Have to Be Sorry...

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2026/09/01

How many times have you said “I’m sorry” this week?Sorry I canceled. Sorry I am tired. Sorry I need help. Sorry my body changed the plan again. For many of us living with chronic illness, those words become a reflex. We are not always apologizing because we harmed someone. Sometimes we are trying to soften the inconvenience of having needs, limits, and a body we cannot always control. In this episode of The Invisible Illness Club, April talks about what happens when apologizing becomes more than

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60:22

069 Building a Business That Lets You Rest, with...

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2026/08/25

What if your business expected your body to have hard days?For chronically ill and neurodivergent entrepreneurs, conventional business advice can feel impossible to follow. Post constantly. Stay visible. Be consistent. Push through. But when pain, fatigue, brain fog, or a flare up can change the shape of your day without warning, building a business around constant output is rarely sustainable. In this conversation, April talks with Randi Pullar of Chronically Cozy about creating a business that

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068 Chronic Illness and the Lonliness of Being...

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2026/08/18

Some of the loneliest moments happen beside people who genuinely love us.They may pray for us, bring dinner, sit in waiting rooms, and help however they know how—and still struggle to understand what living with chronic illness asks of us every day. In this episode, April talks honestly about the grief of being cared for without feeling fully understood. She explores why ordinary words such as tired, pain, rest, and better can carry completely different meanings inside a chronically ill life—and

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14:04

067 The Things I Never Thought I’d Miss With Chronic...

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2026/08/11

Before chronic illness, I never thought I would miss walking through Target, standing in line, helping Victor drive on a long road trip, or sitting comfortably in one position for more than a few minutes.They were ordinary parts of life—so ordinary that I barely noticed them. Some were inconvenient. Some felt like chores. But each one carried a kind of freedom I didn’t recognize until my body could no longer move through them so easily. In this episode of The Invisible Illness Club, I’m talking

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066 When Chronic Illness Makes Your World Feel Smaller

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2026/08/04

Chronic illness rarely changes everything at once. More often, your life becomes smaller one quiet “no” at a time.You make fewer plans. You start calculating the physical cost of every invitation. Places that once felt ordinary begin to feel out of reach. Eventually, you may realize you’re grieving more than the things you can no longer do. You’re grieving the life you thought you would have. In this episode, we’re talking about what it means to mourn possibility—the experiences, relationships,

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14:47

065 The Version of You No One Sees: Invisible...

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2026/07/28

There is a version of you that almost no one knows—the one carrying private fears, unseen grief, unanswered questions, and struggles that never become visible enough for other people to recognize. In this episode, we explore the loneliness of living a life that looks ordinary from the outside but feels overwhelming from within. We talk about the pressure to perform “fine,” the way invisible pain can make us question our own reality, and what happens when strength becomes an identity we are no longer

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49:29

064 When Your Body Finally Feels Safe: Trauma,...

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2026/07/21

What happens when the body you live in becomes a daily reminder of trauma?In this episode of the Invisible Illness Club, April Aramanda talks with Leanna Wydick about surviving domestic violence, sustaining a traumatic brain injury, and navigating life with fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, migraines, and pancreatic enzyme insufficiency. Leanna explains how trauma can rewire the nervous system and influence pain, fatigue, sensory processing, relationships, and chronic illness flares. She also shares how

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063 The Faith Questions We Whisper: Trusting God...

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2026/07/14

What happens when you know all the right answers about God, yet your heart still whispers, “Are You still there?” Chronic illness has a way of making our world feel very small. Symptoms get louder. Appointments take over the calendar. Survival starts replacing living. Somewhere in the middle of the pain, many of us quietly begin asking questions we feel guilty for asking out loud. Does God still see me? Does He still have this? Has He forgotten me? In this episode, we’re talking honestly about the

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062 The Laundry Can Wait: Learning to Leave Things...

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2026/07/07

Lately, I’ve been spending more time sitting in the pool with my husband while the laundry waits inside. The dishes still need to be done. The emails are still there. The to-do list hasn’t magically disappeared. I’m still tired. I’m still in a flare. For most of my life, I believed rest was something you earned after everything else was finished. Chronic illness only amplified that belief. There is always another symptom to manage, another appointment to schedule, another piece of paperwork to

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57:42

061 Disability Is Not a Bad Word: Jenna D’Angelo...

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2026/06/30

What does it look like to navigate life when the world isn’t always built with disability in mind? In this episode, I’m joined by Jenna D’Angelo Shiner, who shares her journey from being able-bodied to living with chronic illness and disability. We talk about mobility aids, internalized ableism, accessibility, faith, church culture, and why disability is not a bad word. This honest conversation explores what it means to live fully, advocate well, and create spaces where everyone belongs. What You’ll

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060 Faith in Different Seasons: Remembering That God...

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2026/06/23

Faith can look different in different seasons. Not because God changes, but because our view of Him often changes with what we’re walking through. In this episode, April shares how chronic illness can become so loud that it fills the entire frame. Appointments, symptoms, pain, exhaustion, and uncertainty demand attention, and before we realize it, we’ve forgotten to look up. After watching Disclosure Day and reading a thought-provoking quote that pointed to the vastness of God’s creation, April was

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059 Faith, Chronic Illness, and the Pressure to...

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2026/06/16

What happens when chronic illness changes your identity, your relationships, and even the way you show up at church? In this conversation, April sits down with Kaylen Soriano of Chronic Yet Undefeated⁠to talk honestly about epilepsy, masking, loneliness, faith, emotional exhaustion, and learning how to trust God in seasons that feel unpredictable. Together, they explore church culture, gratitude without toxic positivity, and the difference between real hope and pretending everything is fine. What

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058 The Invisible Full-Time Job of Chronic Illness

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2026/06/09

There’s a kind of exhaustion that comes from living inside constant management mode. Not only physical exhaustion. Mental exhaustion too. In this episode, I’m talking honestly about the invisible workload that comes with chronic illness — the symptom tracking, energy calculations, recovery planning, medication management, decision fatigue, and emotional weight people rarely see. Because chronic illness is more than symptoms. It’s the nonstop mental tabs running in the background all day long. If

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057 Why Rest Feels Unsafe with Chronic Illness | Rest...

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2026/06/02

Rest sounds peaceful in theory. In real life with chronic illness, it can feel anxious, guilty, frustrating, and emotionally unsafe. In this episode, April Aramanda talks honestly about the pressure to always be productive, the guilt that comes with slowing down, and why rest can feel so hard even when your body desperately needs it. This conversation explores chronic illness, emotional exhaustion, faith, and the struggle to believe your worth still matters when your output changes.What You’ll

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056 When Chronic Illness Changes Your Identity with...

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2026/05/26

In this episode, April talks with podcaster and chronic illness advocate L. A. Sprague from the podcast Christians with Chronic Illness. Together, they dive into the grief that comes when chronic illness changes your identity, your energy, your plans, and even the way you see yourself. L. A. shares her experience living with POTS and major depressive disorder, the tension between ambition and rest, and the pressure many chronically ill people feel to constantly prove their worth through

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