Welcome to A Body Rebels: A Chronic Illness Podcast.
I’m Tate — a private chef, writer, husband, pet parent, and long-term sarcoidosis survivor. I started this podcast because chronic illness changes more than your body. It changes your routines, your relationships, your work, your memory, your confidence, your plans, and sometimes the way you recognize yourself.
This show is my way of telling the truth about that.
A Body Rebels is not a medical lecture, a miracle-cure show, or a place where everything gets wrapped up neatly with a positive attitude. I’m not here to pretend illness is easy, inspirational, or always graceful. I’m here to talk about what it actually feels like to live inside a body that keeps changing the rules.
Some episodes are serious. Some are funny. Some are angry. Some are tender. Some are probably all of those things at once, because that is often what chronic illness feels like.
Behind the scenes, this podcast comes from my own lived experience with sarcoidosis, heart failure, rare disease, oxygen, fatigue, fear, stubbornness, and the strange little moments no one warns you about. It also comes from my life outside of illness — marriage, work, pets, memory, humor, food, frustration, and trying to keep a sense of self when your body has other plans.
My goal is simple: to make people feel less alone.
If you live with chronic illness, invisible illness, rare disease, sarcoidosis, heart failure, autoimmune disease, or any body that feels like it has gone off-script, I hope this show gives you a place to feel seen. If you are a spouse, caregiver, friend, or family member, I hope it helps you understand what illness can feel like from the inside.
This podcast is for the sick, the tired, the stubborn, the scared, the sarcastic, the hopeful, and everyone still trying to build a life in a body that rebels.
Thank you for being here.
— Tate