050 - One Sentence, 8 Words: The Question That Can Change A Life - Jonathan Healy

I started this podcast to be a collaborative guide to share their experience and knowledge that no matter what health issue came up or if someone was navigating, there'd be someone's experience that they could learn from.

A new diagnosis is one of the scariest experiences a person can have.

The future is uncertain, and depending on the severity, you don't know if you're going to be alive much longer, or if it's not life-threatening, you actually don't know what quality of life you'll have.

There's, of course, many, many levels to it.

But whatever level of burden, it can always be eased by listening to someone who's been there before.

That's what this is all about.

My guests have been amazing.

They've shared so openly, and I feel privileged to sit down and talk to everyone.

No story is the same, but they all have one thing in common, and that is grit.

Grit is my favourite word.

I don't like the word resilience.

I don't like inspiring.

I really feel like they've become overdone buzzwords.

Just my opinion, but the dictionary defines grit as a person's mental courage and stubborn determination to keep going through hard times.

Poor health is a hard time, no matter what level you experience it at.

And some of the people that I've interviewed should have been crushed by what they experienced.

And to be honest, some were.

And I'll tell you, none of them felt resilient or inspiring when they were going through it.

But they all did.

Every single one of them did.

They grit their fucking teeth.

They took the pain.

That was courage and determination.

Sometimes courage doesn't look like what the movies have shown us courage is.

Sometimes courage is admitting that you're just not feeling very courageous.

I started this podcast to be a collaborative guide to share their experience and knowledge that no matter what health issue came up or if someone was navigating, there'd be someone's experience that they could learn from.

A new diagnosis is one of the scariest experiences a person can have.

The future is uncertain, and depending on the severity, you don't know if you're going to be alive much longer, or if it's not life-threatening, you actually don't know what quality of life you'll have.

There's, of course, many, many levels to it.

But whatever level of burden, it can always be eased by listening to someone who's been there before.

That's what this is all about.

My guests have been amazing.

They've shared so openly, and I feel privileged to sit down and talk to everyone.

No story is the same, but they all have one thing in common, and that is grit.

Grit is my favourite word.

I don't like the word resilience.

I don't like inspiring.

I really feel like they've become overdone buzzwords.

Just my opinion, but the dictionary defines grit as a person's mental courage and stubborn determination to keep going through hard times.

Poor health is a hard time, no matter what level you experience it at.

And some of the people that I've interviewed should have been crushed by what they experienced.

And to be honest, some were.

And I'll tell you, none of them felt resilient or inspiring when they were going through it.

But they all did.

Every single one of them did.

They grit their fucking teeth.

They took the pain.

That was courage and determination.

Sometimes courage doesn't look like what the movies have shown us courage is.

Sometimes courage is admitting that you're just not feeling very courageous.