
LIVE! Unfixed: Uncut with Elizabeth Jameson
From Unfixed Podcast by Kimberly Warner
February 4, 2026 · 1h 1m
About this episode
Kimberly Warner and Elizabeth Jameson discuss living with an imperfect body, the transformation of medical data into art, and the complexities of intimacy and caregiving.
In this joyful, intimate conversation, Kimberly Warner reunites with artist and writer Elizabeth Jameson—whose work many listeners may remember from the original Unfixed docu-series and their later collaboration, MS Confidential . Together, they explore what it means to live inside an “imperfect body” without reducing that life to tragedy or inspiration. Elizabeth shares how she once refused to look at her MRIs—“horrifying” proof of a progressive disease—until she made a radical pivot: transforming those clinical images into art, reclaiming her medical data and finding unexpected beauty in brain folds that resemble calligraphy. As MS progressed and she became quadriplegic, she adapted again, turning toward writing, speaking, and the ongoing practice of “making friends” with her body. The conversation moves through reinvention, intimacy, and agency: how to articulate what you need when your body changes; how caregiving reshapes relationships; how swearing can be its own kind of medicine; and how aging, in a strange way, can become a homecoming—“I love getting older because I’m now normal.” What emerges is not a neat lesson, but a lived philosophy: let it suck when it sucks, stay…
People in this episode
Host: Kimberly Warner
Guest: Elizabeth Jameson
Topics covered
- imperfect body
- reinvention
- intimacy
- agency
- caregiving
- aging
- art and disease
Keywords
- imperfect body
- MS
- art
- intimacy
- caregiving
- aging
- reinvention
- quadriplegic
- medical data
- self-acceptance
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