Honest conversations on lifestyle medicine and lived experience.

Lived Health Conversations is a new podcast exploring lifestyle medicine and lived experience in chronic illness, hosted by Emma Toms and Jen Wilson.

In this first video (recorded live on Instagram), we talk about how we met through the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine's Voices of Lived Experience group, why lived experience is so often overlooked in healthcare conversations, and why we decided it was time to start this podcast properly.

We get into radical responsibility: what happens after a diagnosis, when the system hands you the information and expects you to take it from there.

We talk about the difference hope makes to outcomes, and why being shown a worst case scenario without ever being shown a success story does people a disservice. We also share a story about presenting lived experience to a room full of clinicians at an NHS conference, and what that taught us both about the gap between what practitioners know and what patients actually live through.

This podcast isn't a replacement for your GP or your specialist. It's the conversation that happens in between, the one that doesn't fit into a ten minute appointment. New episodes of Lived Health Conversations are coming this summer.

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Join us on Substack to continue these conversations: https://substack.com/@livedhealthconversations

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