Chronic, Not Curable: When Life Doesn’t Get Better with John Green

Video from Kate Bowler

Chronic, Not Curable: When Life Doesn’t Get Better with John Green

What if healing doesn’t look like getting better? In this episode of Everything Happens, Kate Bowler talks with bestselling author and mental health advocate John Green about what it means to live with an unfixable reality.

They reflect on the limits of agency, the myths of self-help, and the profound human truth that some things—like chronic illness or mental health struggles—are not problems to solve but companions we carry.

Together, they explore how to stay tender in a world that prizes strength, and how to frame our lives with meaning when we can’t choose the painting.

If you've ever felt like your reality is too much—or not enough—this conversation offers a different kind of hope. Not the kind that denies suffering, but the kind that makes space for it." from the video introduction

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