Maggie was 14 when she started passing out regularly, and she still does occasionally, but that didn't stop her from getting back to school, completing graduate work and becoming a Mental Health Therapist. Maggie shares how she helps others with invisible chronic illness and strategies she uses herself. Maggie also shares some statistics about living with disabilities and a recipe for cooking octopus! Maggie's website is here.

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Joanna Behm, EDD OTR/L and Madison Thornton, OTD, OTR/L are experts in occupational therapy (OT) as therapists, dysautonomia patients, and Joanna is even a professor of OT. Together they created a workbook that first shares the latest evidence and then leads readers through a series of worksheets and questions to help them find their best OT-based solutions and routines for living better with dysautonomia and related challenges. In this episode they explain occupational therapy, the workbook, and share many examples of how patients can get the most from it, and from an OT mindset in general.

The Dysautonomia Workbook is available here, and other handbooks and handouts created by Joanna and her team are available here.

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Dr. Casey Kelley is Board Certified in family and integrative medicine, teaches on the faculty of the Northwestern Medical School, and her care is informed by her own past experience having complex chronic invisible illness. Now she treats some of the very toughest cases, including Lyme, POTS, PANS/PANDAS, MCAS and more. In this episode she and Dr. Dempsey discuss cutting-edge treatment approaches for these conditions in pediatric patients, and we highly recommend this episode for anyone wanting to hear the latest thinking in treatments for these young patients. Dr. Kelley's website is here.

Dr. Dempsey's website is here.

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