In this episode of To The Bone, Dr. Jeffrey Bone explores how people living with chronic illness learn to manage how much truth is safe to share. Drawing on the work of Erving Goffman, the conversation looks at social life as performance, illness as a stigmatized identity, and the quiet emotional labor of appearing well in public while living most of life backstage. This episode speaks to the exhaustion of self editing, the fear of being too much, and the longing to be seen without having to perform wellness. (YouTube/Spotify/Apple)

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