Thoughts While Surviving Chronic Illness is a lived-experience podcast about life with sarcoidosis, heart failure, and the strange realities of long-term illness that no one prepares you for.

This podcast is for people living with sarcoidosis, navigating chronic illness, managing heart failure, or supporting someone with a rare disease.

Hosted by Tate, a private chef living with cardiopulmonary sarcoidosis, this podcast explores what it’s really like to survive chronic illness—not just medically, but emotionally, mentally, and socially.

From symptom flares and medical fatigue to identity shifts, dark humor, grief, resilience, and the quiet victories that keep you going, these episodes reflect real life as it’s actually lived.

This is not a medical podcast. There are no miracle cures and no toxic positivity—just honest reflections, lived experience, and patient-voice storytelling for people living with chronic illness, rare disease, disability, or caring for someone who is.

If you’re learning to live with sarcoidosis, navigating long-term illness, or simply trying to make sense of a body that doesn’t follow the rules anymore—you’re not alone here.

New episodes explore survival, adaptation, and finding meaning in a life that looks different than expected.

Follow the podcast to hear new episodes about living with chronic illness, surviving sarcoidosis, and the small victories that make the journey worthwhile.