Episode 77 Dealing with Chronic Illness and your Career

In this episode is all about dealing with Chronic Illness and how to manage that with your career. Chronic illness is an issue that can affect career happiness and motivation at work. More then that when a illness is debilitating it can affect you physically and mentally too. 

I also give some practical tips on what to do if you are dealing with Chronic illness and need support around this. 

Please note this episode may trigger or upset some of you so I am putting a written Trigger warning here in the notes for you. 

In this episode I talk about some of the illnesses that can affect you and also why it's important to get support in your workplace. 

I also previously spoke about returning to work after an illness and you revisit that episode from season 2 here https://anchor.fm/careerhappiness/episodes/Episode-48---3-tips-on-returning-to-work-after-a-illness-eh1j59 

When we interviewed Louisa Van Vessem she spoke about Chronic fatigue and how this helped her realise she wanted to set up a business see episode here https://anchor.fm/careerhappiness/episodes/Episode-56---How-can-work-in-more-flexible-way-and-look-after-your-health-at-the-same-time-interview-with-Louisa-Van-Vessem-ekp7lm 

This episode also coincides with Endometritis awareness month a illness which many women suffer with in silence and is also something very close to my own heart. Which I speak more about in the episode. To find out more about this please also visit https://endometriosis-uk.org/ 

One of the things I mentioned in the episode was also about how strokes can affect young people I have started following this charity online that helps young people and families who go through strokes https://differentstrokes.co.uk/ 

I do currently have 3 slots available to work with me I have two Career consultation slots and One Parental services slot either for the Paternal consultation or Careers Advice service. 

Please see link to the services here: 

Parental services page - https://www.somaghosh.com/parents-of-teenagers

If you have any questions about this please email me at soma@somaghosh.com please note this email will not be active after May 14th of this year 2021.