A Body Rebels: A Chronic Illness Podcast
A Body Rebels is a lived-experience podcast about sarcoidosis, heart failure, rare disease, chronic illness, and the strange daily reality of living in a body that does not always cooperate.
I’m Tate — a private chef, writer, husband, pet parent, and long-term sarcoidosis survivor. This podcast is not about miracle cures, medical lectures, or pretending a positive attitude fixes everything. It is about the honest middle of chronic illness: the fatigue, fear, grief, humor, stubbornness, absurdity, and small victories that come with surviving day after day.
These are first-person stories about illness, identity, marriage, work, memory, resilience, and learning how to live inside a life that changed without asking permission.
This podcast is for people living with chronic illness, sarcoidosis, rare disease, heart failure, autoimmune conditions, invisible illness, or any body that feels like it has gone off-script. It is also for caregivers, spouses, family, and friends who want to understand illness from the inside.
If you are tired of toxic positivity, pity, miracle-cure noise, and being told to “just stay strong,” you are in the right place.
This is for the sick, the tired, the stubborn, the scared, the sarcastic, the hopeful, and everyone trying to build a life in a body that rebels.
A Body Rebels: A Chronic Illness Podcast
Latest Episodes
Chronic Illness, Anger, and Finding the Right Kind of Therapy
I’m talking about the assumptions people made about my mental health after I became seriously ill, and why sadness, grief, anger, and depression aren’t interchangeable. I share what happened when my first therapist insisted on treating a diagno...
Outliving a Chronic Illness Prognosis
In this episode, I talk about what it felt like to hear doctors put numbers on my future, then keep living past the dates that once scared me. I’m reflecting on stage four sarcoidosis, heart failure, scarred lungs, medical uncertainty, and the ...
Kindness in Healthcare and Chronic Illness Care
In this episode, I’m talking about kindness in healthcare, bedside manner, chronic illness care, and why the emotional side of medical appointments can follow me long after I leave the room. Living with sarcoidosis means I’ve spent years around...
The Fake Chinese Song That Became a Chronic Illness Poem
In this episode, I’m talking about a silly song I sing to my dogs, a language I don’t actually speak, and the strange AI surprise that came back when I finally let technology listen. I’m reflecting on ancestry, imagination, chronic illness, mem...
Childhood Memories, Chronic Illness, and the Cousin I Never Forgot
In this episode, I talk about my cousin Jenny, a childhood memory I’ve carried for more than fifty years, and the way grief can return through laughter before it ever knows what to do with itself. I’m reflecting on family distance, ovarian canc...
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