312: What if you believed your love could cure him?

312: What if you believed your love could cure him?

Finally finding love and marriage after feeling unworthy of romance, a woman develops symptoms of a mysterious and debilitating illness, but in the roller coaster of recovery, her husband’s mental illness creates a new level of chaos.


Today’s episode featured Marabai Rose. To find out more about Marabai, you can find her on Instagram @marabai.rose, and on her website marabairose.com. There you can find links to her podcast, Badass: Tales of Resilience @badass_tales_of_resilience, which showcases authentic conversations about trauma and resilience. You can also find links to her memoir, Holding Hope: One family’s Odyssey Through Lyme Disease and Psychosis, which dives deeper into many aspects of the story you heard today and more. If you'd like to reach out to her, you can email at contact@marabairose.com or on Facebook at facebook.com/marabai


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Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Sara Marinelli


Content/Trigger Warnings: medical trauma, domestic violence, severe mental illness, psychosis, explicit language

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Intro Music: "Illabye" – Tipper

Music Bed: “Union Flow” – Spuntic

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