Against the Odds

Reclaim Your Life Even in Times of Chaos

05/21/2020
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Reclaim Your Life Even in Times of Chaos

Listen to “Reclaim Your Life Even in Times of Chaos” on Spreaker.

Often with a long-term medical condition, it’s easy to feel as if you have lost control over your health, body, and life, including your rights. Regaining your sense of control by successfully advocating for yourself and others can give you back hope and self-esteem — two powerful factors in recovery. Kristal shares how to use patient advocacy skills in many areas of your life plus she shares:

• The importance of self-advocacy and self-care, especially now,

• Ways to build a community online and offline,

• How to rewire your brain to focus on the positive regardless of what’s going on around you
plus so much more…

About our Guest: Kristal Kent is an Army Veteran, Fibromyalgia Advocate, Veteran Advocate, and Patient Leader Expert. With 20 years of Social Service experience, Kristal’s advocacy work focuses on educating the Fibromyalgia Community on their illness, how to best advocate for their healthcare needs, and apply for Medical Disability Benefits. As a Veteran with Fibromyalgia, Kristal also advocates on behalf of Military Veterans diagnosed with PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injury, Chronic Pain Conditions, and Fibromyalgia. She works beside other Military Veterans and Veteran Organizations to bring about legislative changes at the VA. Her advocacy effort, for the Military Veteran Community and Fibromyalgia Community, has garnered several recognitions and awards. Kristal Kent is a member of “WEGO Health,” “Society for Participatory Medicine,” a Co-Op Member of the “Savvy Cooperation for Patients” and is a Board of Trustee Member for the “Fibromyalgia Care Society of America.” Kristal is the Founder of “The Fibromyalgia Pain Chronicles,” Founder of the “National Alliance of Fibromyalgia Advocates” and Co-Founder of “Veteran Voices For Fibromyalgia.” You can connect with Kristal and read about her Advocacy Initiatives on social media at https://www.facebook.com/FibroPainChronicles and https://www.facebook.com/VeteranVoicesForFibromyalgia/

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About Your Host, Sharon Sayler

Your host, Sharon Sayler is a certified executive and wellness coach, communications trainer, public speaker, best selling author, and the founder of Competitive Edge Communications who specializes in teaching professionals critical nonverbal and body language skills including how to have those critical “tough” conversations. She teaches how to up-your-impact on the stage, in the boardroom, with clients, customers, team members and even how to deal with difficult people.

Now, she's taken those skills, her passion for clear and competent communication, her own experience dealing with a rare medical condition and her frustration with the medical community in understanding what it is like to have a chronic and complicated medical condition to teach others to become courageous self-advocates so they too can turn life transitions into triumphs. One way she spreads the word is through the podcast and videocast called The Autoimmune Show: Inspiring hope and help for those with autoimmune.

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