Emotional Wellbeing & Relationships
A healthy mind and support system can help you cope and feel better with arthritis. Learn about the mind-body connection and behaviors that promote emotional wellbeing.
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Arthritis & Your Mental Health
In this episode of the Live Yes! With Arthritis podcast we’ll explore the arthritis-mental health connection, how it affects overall health and therapies that can help.Listen Now
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Resolution Do-Over
Movement is medicine when it comes to arthritis, but motivation can be the biggest challenge. In this episode, an expert shares advice to help you get — and stay — motivated.Listen Now
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Love, Relationships & Arthritis
In this episode the Live Yes! With Arthritis podcast, we’ll explore relationships and arthritis, the challenges the two create and how to cope and overcome them.Listen Now
Change Your Habits for Good
Learn some strategies to ditch bad habits and form better ones to improve mental and physical health, as well as inflammation and pain from arthritis.Listen Now
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Newly Diagnosed: Control the Emotional Toll
Painful feelings like anger, stress and depression worsen physical pain, as well as mental health. Learn how and strategies to cope in the latest podcast.. Listen Now
Calm Your Inner Critic
In this podcast episode, you’ll learn strategies to shut down that devil whispering in your ear and focus on positivity to improve your mental and physical well-being.Listen Now
The Power of Giving
Altruism can help both the giver and receiver mentally, emotionally and physically — and even reduce pain. In this episode, we explore the power of giving and how to give back. Listen Now
Living With Arthritis: Silver Linings
Living with arthritis can be downright depressing with chronic pain and the limits it can place on doing what you love and need to do. But surprisingly, many people say it also has positive effects. From lessons in gratitude and small but hard-won achievements to teaching others compassion and empathy, living with or around arthritis can have some silver linings. In this episode, people with various forms of the disease will discuss their own experiences, and how they came to see their own silver linings.Listen Now
Gardening with Arthritis
Gardening is a wonderful pastime and research shows it can benefit both physical and mental health. But what can be done when painful, achy and swollen joints from arthritis keep you from tending to your garden’s tasks? In this episode of the Live Yes With Arthritis podcast, our experts explore tips, techniques and tools to help and hone your green thumb with less pain and discomfort.Listen Now
Self-Compassion and Chronic Pain
Self-compassion is the act of showing kindness to oneself in times of suffering. In this episode, a trained medical doctor and mindfulness practitioner shares tips on how to use self-compassion to help dial down stress, alleviate depression and even alter the pain experience.Listen Now
Sex & Intimacy With Arthritis
Learn how to improve your sex life with arthritis – including practical tips on making intimacy more comfortable, how to communicate with your partner about sexual difficulties, fostering a healthier body image and more.
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Grief and Chronic Illness With David Kessler
Living with a chronic illness like arthritis and its symptoms often means living with grief, too. You may grieve losing the ability to do things you love, the future you had dreamed of, maybe even your identity. Internationally known grief and grieving expert David Kessler joins us to discuss grief and arthritis and offer some ways to cope.Listen Now
Dating With Arthritis
Dating. It’s a weighted word that triggers eye rolls and a slew of other emotions and emotive responses. While it’s not for the faint of heart, the heart is the very reason why we put ourselves out there and through the dating gauntlet. Dating with a chronic condition like arthritis creates its own level of trials — both physical and emotional. Listen Now
Make Mental Health a Priority
Your mental health can directly and indirectly impact your physical health and arthritis. Learn why it’s so important — especially now — to prioritize your emotional well-being.Listen Now
Mindfulness for Beginners
On this episode, we’re talking about the link between stress and arthritis symptoms, like pain, sleep and fatigue, and how mindfulness can help. Get tips on getting started from special guests, Nicole Riley, MD, an integrative pain management doctor and mindfulness expert, and Meryl Arnett, a meditation and yoga teacher.This episode was originally released December 9, 2019.
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Body Image, Self Esteem & Arthritis
Learn how to foster a healthier body image to better care for your mental and physical health – despite the unpredictability of living with arthritis. Additionally, learn coping strategies for bad days, not only so you can have a better relationship with yourself, but also with those around you. Listen Now
Brain Fog, Mental Clarity & Arthritis
Mental fuzziness, or “brain fog,” is a frustrating phenomenon that often occurs with arthritis and related conditions, like fibromyalgia. Listen to experts discuss some suspected causes and ways to deal with it.Listen Now
Mind Over Stress
Hear about the connection between chronic stress and arthritis and how stress contributes to pain, inflammation and lower immunity. You’ll also learn strategies to reduce stress and manage your arthritis symptoms.
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TeleMental Health
If you’re reluctant to seek in-person counseling for anxiety and stress, consider virtual psychotherapy. Hear from a counselor who’s an arthritis patient and JA mom who’s been practicing remotely for years.Listen Now
Wellness in Challenging Times
Want some tips about how to handle change in challenging times and maintain your health and wellness? This episode’s guest is an experienced social worker and researcher who grew up with juvenile arthritis.Listen Now
Relationships
Having a chronic condition like arthritis can pose challenges to relationships. Learn how to navigate tricky emotions, open lines of communication, establish healthy boundaries and assert your own self-worth.Listen Now
Mindfulness
Mindful practices can help those living with chronic pain reduce their mental and physical exhaustion. Learn how our bodies respond to pain, what you can do to break the cycle and some techniques to get started.Listen Now
