The Community Table: Chronic Illness
Thu, Dec 18
|Zoom
The invisible labor of managing your body can feel endless. At the next Community Table, we’re naming this. We're challenging the pressure to push through and pretending everything’s fine.
Time & Location
Dec 18, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST
Zoom
About the event
We don’t all have the same 24 hours.
If you’re living with chronic illness, you’ve probably felt the pressure to keep up — to work harder, try more, or pretend it’s fine. But what if the problem isn’t you? What if the myth of productivity is hurting more than helping?
At this month’s Community Table, we’re making space to talk about what it’s really like to live with chronic health concerns — the physical, emotional, and invisible parts of the experience. Together, we’ll explore three core ideas:
1. The Myth of the Same 24 Hours
Chronic illness reshapes how time, energy, and effort work. Let’s challenge the unrealistic standards we’re told to meet — and name the real cost of pushing through.