Healing Stories Network

The Reading Room

Honest, first-person companions to the conditions, treatments, and choices explored across our library.

Research estimates lipedema may affect as many as one in ten women; most spend decades told to diet harder. The clinical finger...

ME/CFS is not tiredness — it is exertion punished on a delay. Patients describe post-exertional malaise, pacing as survival ski...

A guide to our Chronic & Invisible Illnesses shelf — ten anthologies of first-person testimony, from long COVID and POTS to...

Standing up should not be hard, but with POTS it can be. What this often-misunderstood condition is really like, and what peopl...

The years before a name, why "push through" is the wrong instinct, the friendships lost to cancelling, the paperwork of proving...