This week we share a tequila cocktail with Josie McGarva! We talk about her Crohn's disease and her struggle with fistulas and abscesses. We also spend quite a bit of time talking about mental health and IBD and Josie's graduate work in health psychology....

This week we talk to Hannah Cramer! We talked a lot about surgeries, waking up with an unexpected ostomy, how the world could be more accessible for people living with ostomies, her challenging career and how her IBD influenced her career choice, and trauma and IBD....

This week we talk to Caroline Perry on being diagnosed with Crohn's disease very young, growing up with IBD, and what is was like to have a sibling with IBD as well as one without IBD. We also talk about establishing boundaries when we you have IBD and also work...

In this episode you meet Dr. Lukasz Kwapisz! Dr. Kwapisz is an Assistant Professor and IBD Specialist at the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX.  We discuss how he chose to specialize in IBD and his passion for treating our...

In this episode you meet Dr. Bincy P. Abraham! Dr. Abraham is a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Fondren Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program at the Underwood Digestive Diseases Center at Houston Methodist Hospital. We discuss her career in GI, her research...

This week we talk to Crohn's patient Jodie Delay who also has a brother and son with Crohn's. We discussed accepting and feeling all emotions, how empowering and exciting advocacy can be, and  how you can choose to live joyfully even in the face of adversity...

This week we talk to Amy Btiebet Washington on living well with Crohn's disease, self-care options, finding the right provider and the right tribe, how vulnerability can create connections, and how sometimes you just got to have that craft beer even if you pay...

In this episode you'll meet Lt. Colonel Dr. Anish Patel! Dr. Patel is the head of GI and an IBD Specialist at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. We talk to him about why he chose IBD, how an IBD diagnosis works in the military, the importance of...

As you hopefully heard in our last episodes, both Co-Host Robin and last week's guest Stacey Collins were having J-Pouch surgery. Their surgeries were quite close together and so they became surgery/recovery buddies. Unfortunately they had vastly different...

We had so much fun talking to our friend Stacey Collins in this episode! Stacey is a Dietitian who lives with UC and we talked about the field of Dietetics, diet research for IBD,  what you can find out in your bloodwork, surgery as a treatment option, road-tripping...

In this episode we talk to Dr. Ashish Patel who is the Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Phoenix Children's Hospital and an IBD expert! We discuss caring for kids with IBD, pediatric IBD research and why it's both exciting and frustrating,...

This week we had a great conversation with Grady Stewart! We talked about navigating the college health system, being diagnosed as a child vs. as an adult, grief associated with a chronic illness diagnosis, and how Grady works with and advocates for other people...