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Loving Your Body through Fitness and Sexual Intimacy: Insights from Liv Loo

Episode Summary

Living with chronic illness can make it hard to love your body. In this episode, personal trainer and juvenile idiopathic arthritis warrior Liv Loo shares how she learned to love her body through fitness, sexual intimacy, mindfulness and more.

Episode Notes

Content Warning - This episode contains profanity and explicit sexual content 

Episode at a glance:

• Liv’s diagnosis story for juvenile idiopathic arthritis and uveitis
• Highlights and lowlights of growing up with juvenile idiopathic arthritis
• Liv’s Fitness and self-advocacy Journey: switching jobs to protect her energy and stress levels and finding her own personal training business MovetoLiv
• When to push and when to rest?
• Mindfulness and being present even in pain discussion
• Busting the biggest myths about arthritis-friendly / flare friendly workouts
• Why is intimacy is so important for spoonies  - learning to connect with our bodies, trust them, and communicate with partners. Live shares how sexual intimacy, kink, and BDSM found a place in her chronic pain management.
• Liv’s best Advice for the Newly diagnosed

Medical disclaimer:

All content found on Arthritis Life public channels was created for generalized informational purposes only. The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

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Full episode details including transcript:

Go to www.MyArthritisLife.Net for full details and a transcript.