Still Breathing Against Odds: Life, Hope and Identity Beyond Chronic Illness

About Still Breathing Against Odds: Life, Hope and Identity Beyond Chronic Illness

A Body Rebels is a lived-experience podcast about sarcoidosis, heart failure, rare disease, chronic illness, and the strange daily reality of living in a body that does not always cooperate. I’m Tate — a private chef, writer, husband, pet parent, and long-term sarcoidosis survivor. This podcast is not about miracle cures, medical lectures, or pretending a positive attitude fixes everything. It is about the honest middle of chronic illness: the fatigue, fear, grief, humor, stubbornness, absurdity, and small victories that come with surviving day after day. These are first-person stories about illness, identity, marriage, work, memory, resilience, and learning how to live inside a life that changed without asking permission. This podcast is for people living with chronic illness, sarcoidosis, rare disease, heart failure, autoimmune conditions, invisible illness, or any body that feels like it has gone off-script. It is also for caregivers, spouses, family, and friends who want to understand illness from the inside. If you are tired of toxic positivity, pity, miracle-cure noise, and being told to “just stay strong,” you are in the right place. This is for the sick, the tired, the stubborn, the scared, the sarcastic, the hopeful, and everyone trying to build a life in a body that rebels.

Publisher

Tate Basildon

Category

health & fitness · health & fitness · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Oct 2025

Latest episode

3 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

116 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Nov 2026

   One Year of A Body Re-bells: More Than 110 Episodes and Still Talking

   A Body Re-bells celebrates its first birthday with more than 110 episodes and listeners in 68 countries and 390 cities. Tate reflects on a year of sharing life with sarcoidosis and chronic illness, finding humor in difficult experiences, and discovering how far a personal story can travel. This podcast is narrated using an AI voice. The words, reflections, and lived experience are my own. Contact A Body Rebels More info about Sarcoidosis and to donate toward research: The Foundation For Sarco...

2. 

   30 Oct 2026

   Chronic Illness and Marriage: How Sarcoidosis Changed Our Lives

   I’ve lived with sarcoidosis for twenty years, but my wife has lived with its consequences alongside me. After forty-five years together, I’ve begun thinking about everything chronic illness has changed in our marriage, including the freedom we once enjoyed, the plans we abandoned, and the sacrifices that never appear in my medical records. This episode explores the quieter cost of chronic illness on a relationship, and why I believe my wife’s experience deserves to be recognized as much as my...

3. 

   27 Oct 2026

   When Chronic Illness Makes Dreams Go Quiet

   I remember my wife asking whether I still had dreams, and having no answer. Chronic illness had narrowed my attention to appointments, medications, fatigue, and getting through another day. In this episode, I reflect on living with sarcoidosis and heart failure, the caution I began confusing with wisdom, and a rainy drive to hear Olivia Newton-John after forty years of waiting. I explore the difference between respecting my limits and silencing my desires, and how music helped me recognize so...

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