Ep. 73 - A Mother & Daughter's Journey Through Chronic & Invisible Illness with Anna & Dana Penenberg

Chronically Healing Podcast

Today’s episode is with mother / daughter Anna & Dana Penenberg! In high school, Dana unfortunately grew very ill with invisible illnesses including an extreme case of Lyme Disease and Fibromyalgia. This episode is their story navigating Dana’s health healing journey together using all kinds of modalities (Western, Chinese and Alternative medicine, etc.)

Anna ended up writing a book called “Dancing in the Narrows: A Mother Daughter Odyssey Through Chronic Illness.” This book is the experience through her own eyes of their experience with chronic illness that attacked Dana’s health.

Now both Anna and Dana work as healers for others. Anna works with individuals and families affected by trauma. A healer by nature and training, her approach integrates neurobiology, psychotherapy, and wisdom traditions into personal pathways of re-patterning. Dana is a certified master practitioner of Holy Fire Reiki and Integrative Craniosacral Unwinding. She also offers doula services to support this experience with energy work and trauma processing.

Listen in to this amazing story and grab Anna’s book here!

In today’s episode we chat about:

• Talia's takes us through living with Primary Juvenile Fibromyalgia, what that is and how she’s dealt with it throughout her life

• Talia's story as a biracial and bicultural Latina woman living with chronic illness

• When implicit bias becomes explicit bias

• Jessie's learnings with her own privilege and what she's started learning during the Black Lives Matter movement

• Color blindness vs. color acceptance

• How race effects those within the chronic illness community

• The privilege of finding a doctor that works for you

• Becoming your own advocate and how to invest in yourselves while living with invisible illness

Links and things…

• Anna’s Website

• Dana’s Website

• Anna’s Instagram

• Dana’s Instagram

• Buy “Dancing in the Narrows”

• Jessie's Instagram

• Jessie’s TikTok

• Chronically Healing Facebook Group

• www.betterhelp.com/healing