Hannah Shewan Stevens

3 weeks ago | bezzymigraine.com | Hannah Shewan Stevens |Jerlyn Jones

Making meals while wrestling with a chronic illness can feel overwhelming, but optimizing your kitchen and finding the right tools can reunite you with the joy of cooking. Traditional kitchen setups, energy-intensive recipes, and the expectation of standing for long periods create barriers that many food blogs and cooking guides ignore.

3 weeks ago | bezzycopd.com | Hannah Shewan Stevens

Our bodies don’t mean to, but they do hurt us, in cycles of chronic pain, discomfort, and frustration. Before we allow this to build into resentment, we must find some compassion and forgive our illnesses. When you live with chronic illness, grief, anger, and frustration can take their toll, especially when you live in the vice-like grip of chronic pain. At times, these waves of emotion build into resentment or a sense of betrayal directed at our body’s inability to get or stay well.

1 month ago | bezzycopd.com | Hannah Shewan Stevens

We can all inspire others without being reduced to harmful stereotypes that ignore our daily challenges in a world that refuses to accommodate us. Outside supportive communities like Bezzy, stories about the disabled and chronically ill often fall into two extremes: triumph or tragedy. We become feel-good tokens or tear-inducing symbols in narratives crafted for “healthy” audiences.

1 month ago | independent.co.uk | Hannah Shewan Stevens

commentI was signed off work twice with mental illness, writes Hannah Shewan Stevens – but is it any surprise people are struggling to cope when the UK is falling apart at the seams? Health secretary Wes Streeting has put his foot in his mouth again, this time, claiming there’s “definitely an overdiagnosis” of mental illness in the UK. Apparently, those of us struggling with poor mental health are a burden to the public’s finances because we need time off work to recover.

2 months ago | metro.co.uk | Hannah Shewan Stevens

When Rosie opened a letter and saw the words ' abnormal cells ' she felt pure panic. 'I didn't think I'd be told that way,' the 38-year-old tells Metro. 'No one explained what those words actually meant. All I got was a number to make an appointment for a procedure to remove them.'The letter, which Rosie Dixon received in 2018, was inviting her to undergo a large loop excision of the transformation zone ( LLETZ) to remove some pre-cancerous cells discovered in her cervix.