Spoonie Support Group: Loving Yourself and Your Body While Living With Chronic Illness

An affirming community of folx with chronic conditions (disability, illness, pain) who support one another in their experiences, struggles, and triumphs. Enjoy mutual support, improve self esteem, share resources with people going through the same thing, and learn skills to manage the impact of these conditions. Focus is on physiological conditions and their impact on mental health and quality of life. This group uses an anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, and intersectional perspectives in our discussions and connections with one another.

Please note that you do not need a formal medical diagnosis to join. It is okay if you are still exploring your own lived experience to disability or any chronic health condition and have questions about whether you belong in these communities. Auto-captions will be available. For any other access needs, please contact the facilitator.

Note: A SPOONIE is a person with chronic conditions or disabilities. From “Spoon Theory,” developed by Christine Miserando in her blog “But You Don’t Look Sick,” which is the idea that people with chronic conditions and disabilities experience varying levels of energy and functioning from day-to-day, using the metaphor of waking up with a varying number of “spoons” each day that then need to be traded for being able to function that day.