Natasha Lipman

White text on a deep purple background reads: 'The Rest Room' with a small pink full stop next to the word room. Underneath in slightly smaller font, text reads: "understanding movement for chronic pain". Along the bottom of the image is a shelf with pink illustrations: 4 books, a laptop, a white plant pot with an unsmiling face and green leaves poking out, some more books, a pink dolls, leaning casually against a white water bottle, some books lying flat piled on top of each other with a cute succulent with a smiling face pot perched on top, and more books.

The Rest Room: An Introduction To Exercise With Chronic Illness [Transcript]

The Rest Room · Understanding Movement For Chronic Pain *Vibey music plays* Hello and welcome to ‘The Rest Room’ – a new podcast from me, Natasha Lipman! *Vibey music starts to fade out* If you’re listening to this, you may have been subscribed to ...

Introduction: Understanding Movement For Chronic Pain

Hello and welcome to my new series on understanding exercise when living with chronic pain. I’ve worked with the wonderful Claire Campbell from the Physiotherapy Pain Association to create a series of posts which will hopefully give you an insight into ...

Moving On From A Wheelchair

If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen over the last year or so that I’ve written a few posts about how the biggest unexpected benefit of using a wheelchair (for me) was that it enabled me to save energy which I could spend on getting physically ...

Video: How To Manage Diet With Chronic Illness

How can people living with existing chronic illness manage their diet when things feel so out of control (and many don’t have access to their usual care?) I interviewed Registered Dietitian, Harriet Smith, who also lives with chronic illness ...

Video: Managing Chronic Pain During COVID-19

How can people living with existing chronic pain manage their symptoms when things feel so out of control, and many don’t have access to their usual care? To try and scratch the surface of that very big question, I interviewed Clinical Psychologist ...

Lily Boulle on Chronic Illness, Sleep & Entrepreneurship

This week’s interview with a chronically ill entrepreneur is with Lily Boulle, founder of Sleep Siren, a boutique that focusses on all things sleep. We discuss what it’s like running a business with a long-term health condition (and all that ...

Listening Books: Making Reading Accessible

In the current climate, distractions and finding ways to spend time when at home, for everyone, has become a topic of mainstream conversation in a way I’ve never seen it before. But for many people living in the disability community, these have been ...