126 episodes
Exposing Isolation Rebecca E. Webber
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- Health & Fitness
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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Exposing Isolation is a very personal art project, made necessary by my many health conditions which keep me housebound. This has been my state since 2015 and while there is no end in sight, there has been some profound meaning and insight gained along the way.
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Endings and New Beginings
I've graduated from therapy with Liz and am starting Animist Minister training today. What a great time it is!
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The Next Era of My Life
This past week has been FULL of love and socializing. It was a real reset for me and I am happy to be exploring this next phase in my growth.
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Breakthrough Over Pho
This episode is about having lunch with my mom and step dad and learning some very healing truths. They were also super supportive of my new diagnosis and everything I'm doing with my life right now.
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Trip Notes on Our 10 Year Meet-iversary
These are my end of trip thoughts from February 15, 2023. Definitely my most significant insights and shift so far. This also happened to be the 10 year anniversary of Thomas and I meeting.
Customer Reviews
Great Podcast
Rebecca is very motivational how she is taking control of her life. The episodes are fluid, funny, inspirational, and you can tell her enthusiasm for wanting to get her story out there and help others. I look forward to hearing more from her and seeing where this journey takes her.
She has little clue about isolation or being homebound
I listened only through the second episode, as that is all I could possibly stomach.
There are SUCH FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS with this self-described "work of art."
The podcaster is discussing having gone shopping at IKEA, etc., with her (financially and apparently emotionally supportive) *husband*, who (e.g.) takes the day off when he can, to do things with her. She has "friends" [ep. 1]' as well as supportive family members. [In ep. 1, her beloved grandmother visited & was happy about her pantry organization]. She talks of matters concerning "romance" in her life [ep. 2], and her strengths—how "blessed" she is. She has the best-ever (or however she phrased it) psychotherapist [pre-Covid, before they all changed to telehealth—so how is a housebound, isolated person even to get to this person's office? And who among us very isolated people are able even to connect with a truly good, understanding, HELPFUL shrink?]
Motivated to write "newsletters" (& ostensibly, thus, has people she expects would read such things]. How truly isolated can she be?
By episode 2, she lengthily gives herself a verbal pat on her back for having put together a "recording studio," etc.
So, how am I—one who is *truly* homebound due to severe illness, who has lost my friends due to my need to stay in after catastrophic trauma, and for whom effective treatment does not even EXIST—how am I, or any other soul who is housebound and experiencing true isolation, supposed to relate at all?
So far, this consists of quite nauseatingly, rather random self-centeredness—as she puts it, an opportunity to "talk about [her]self."
This is frustrating— even hurtful—to one who was hoping to hear the words of a *truly* compassionate [not just toward herself], collegial, relatable survivor.
At one point, she says this is about her, a kind of "diary."
Well, why, then, publish a mere diary of your activities and just whatever?
I'm finished with this "work of art" or oddly published "diary."