LIVE! Unfixed: Uncut with Kathleen Kiddo

LIVE! Unfixed: Uncut with Kathleen Kiddo

From Unfixed Podcast by Kimberly Warner

March 10, 2026 · 1h 6m

About this episode

A conversation with Heather Kennedy about living with Parkinson's and the complexities of invisible illness.

Heather Kennedy, also known as Kathleen Kiddo , joins me for a deeply honest, funny, and tender conversation about living with Parkinson’s, invisible illness, and the strange spiritual terrain of a body that no longer behaves the way it once did. We talk about suffering as teacher, humor as survival, the pressure to make illness sound inspirational, and the quiet difference between fighting and allowing. Heather reflects on Parkinson’s as both poison and gift, on becoming a “human Rorschach blot” for other people’s fears and projections, and on what it means to live well right now, in the moment that matters. We also wander into advocacy, art, adaptation, motherhood, medicine, shame, gut health, healing, and the possibility of finding peace not after the storm, but in it. I GENUINELY LOVE THIS WOMAN. Thank you Amy Gabrielle , Nan Tepper , Eileen Dougharty , , Monica Ticknor , and many others for tuning into my live video with Kathleen Kiddo ! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to Unfixed at unfixed.substack.com/subscribe

People in this episode

Host: Kimberly Warner

Guests: Heather Kennedy, Kathleen Kiddo

Topics covered

  • Parkinson's disease
  • invisible illness
  • spirituality
  • advocacy
  • humor
  • motherhood
  • healing

Keywords

  • Parkinson's
  • invisible illness
  • spirituality
  • humor
  • advocacy
  • motherhood
  • healing
  • suffering
  • self-acceptance

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