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Carley | Chronic Illness, POTS + Hypermobility

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Living with POTS, hEDS & MCAS 💕
Hypermobility challenges + medical stories 🥄
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I make passive income from bed with chronic illness, and Claude does the parts that drain me 🛏️

I have POTS and hEDS, and most days I don’t have the energy to run a whole business. So I trained Claude on my voice, my style and my rules. It drafts my emails, runs my to-do list and helps edit my products (and this video). I still review everything myself.

I’m turning my exact setup into a step-by-step kit for the chronic illness community. Comment CLAUDE and I’ll send you the waitlist link 💜

What would you hand off to Claude first?

(Results vary. This isn’t a promise of income.)

#chronicillness #spoonie #potssyndrome #claudeai #smallbusiness by @restingisproductive

Hypermobility Challenge Part 8! ✨

Can your palms touch your shoulders? ✋🏼✋🏼

(please don’t hurt yourself trying to do this 💕)

#hypermobilitychallenge #hypermobility #hypermobile #heds #hypermobileehlersdanlossyndrome by @restingisproductive

If Netflix made a documentary about medical gaslighting… imagine the stories we could all tell. 💔

Being dismissed, told “your labs are normal,” or made to question what you know about your own body can leave lasting scars. You deserve to feel heard, prepared, and confident walking into every appointment.

That’s exactly why I created my Don’t Get Medically Gaslit toolkit. It’s filled with practical tools to help you organize your symptoms, communicate clearly, ask the right questions, and advocate for yourself without second-guessing your experience.

✨ Comment GASLIT and I’ll send you the link.

You deserve doctors who listen, but until every patient gets that, let’s make sure you have the tools to advocate for yourself. ❤️

#chronicillness #medicalgaslighting #patientadvocate #spoonie #chronicillnessawareness by @restingisproductive

The ultimate hypermobility challenge! ✨

Some call it shrimp hands, some call it a middle school party trick, I just call it hypermobility 🫶

Can you do this one? 💁🏻‍♀️

#hypermobility #heds #hypermobile #hypermobileehlersdanlossyndrome #pots by @restingisproductive

Hypermobility Challenge Part 28! 🫠 How stretchy is your skin?

Stretchy, soft skin is one of the lesser-known signs of hEDS. I used to think everyone’s cheeks could do this 😅

Try it and tell me in the comments: can yours stretch like this? 👇

#hypermobility #heds #hypermobile #hypermobilitychallenge #hypermobileeds by @restingisproductive

I’m not judging you… but I definitely see you 👀😂

If you rest and then feel guilty about it, say “I’m fine” at every appointment, or have a Notes app that’s half symptoms and half business ideas… hi, it’s me. I was all of these too 🙋‍♀️

What changed for me wasn’t pushing harder. It was letting Claude handle the busywork, so my energy goes to the parts only I can do and I actually get my rest days back 🛋️💛

I’m putting exactly how I do it into Resting Is Profitable, a guide to Claude for spoonies.

✨Comment KIT ✨ and I’ll send you the waitlist link! Waitlist gets first access and the founding price on Nov 17 ✨

Which slide called you out the most? 👇

#chronicillness #spoonie #chronicallyill #invisibleillness #workfromhome by @restingisproductive

We decided to go as Chloe for Halloween this year 🤍🖤🎃

Best costume ever!! 🐾🤍

#halloween2026 #halloween #costume #couplescostume #dogcostume by @restingisproductive

If you take meds every single day, you know your pill case quietly becomes part of your whole life. #ad 💊 It’s on your nightstand, in your bag, out on the table at dinner. So why does it always have to look so sad and clinical? 🥺

I’ve tried so many over the years and they were all just sad, boring boxes… until I found these from @chronicallychic ✨ Everything has its own spot, it closes up tight so nothing spills, and somehow it makes taking my meds feel a little less like a chore and a little more like taking care of myself 🫶

It’s such a small change, but it makes me feel more like a person and less like a patient 🥹 Go check out their whole collection, it’s all this cute 🤍

Shop the link in my bio. Use code RESTING20 for 20% off 🛍️

#chronicillness #spoonie #POTS #invisibleillness by @restingisproductive

When I was little, I had so many dreams about who I wanted to be when I grew up. 🥹💗

But you know what I never thought about? Being healthy.

I never imagined that one day, feeling good in my own body would become one of my biggest wishes. That I’d spend so much of my adult life searching for answers, managing symptoms, and just wanting to feel better.

If I could go back and talk to that little girl, I’d tell her that life might look different than she imagined, but there’s so much about her that will never change. 💕

She’ll still be funny, determined, surrounded by people who love her, and incredibly close with her family. 🥹

And while I wish I could give her a future without chronic illness, I’m proud of the person she’s become.

I may not have grown up to be everything I imagined, but I hope little me would still be proud of who I am today. 💗

What would you tell your younger self? 🫶🏻

#ChronicIllness #InnerChild #InvisibleIllness #ChronicIllnessJourney #tbt by @restingisproductive

Chronic illness brain: you should rest 🛌
Also chronic illness brain: but what if we started 6 businesses from the couch 🤪💜

Resting is still my job. I just found a way to do the rest of it with less energy.

Comment KIT and I’ll send you how I do it all with way fewer spoons 🥄

#chronicillness #spoonie #invisibleillness #chronicillnesslife #workfromhome by @restingisproductive

Even the elevator emergency line gets spam calls sometimes…😂

I was in the elevator and it started…ringing?! Then a robo voice got on. Such a weird experience! 😂

#elevator #robocalls #funnystory #funny #viralmoment by @restingisproductive

“I’m fine” is the most-used sentence in my vocabulary 🙃

Most of the time it means I’m bloated, in pain, dizzy, or exhausted by 10 AM. Sometimes it means I’m holding it together until I get home. And sometimes it means I miss who I was before I got sick.

I don’t say it to lie. I say it because explaining takes spoons I don’t have, and I don’t want anyone to worry.

So if you love a spoonie, ask twice. 🤍

What does “I’m fine” really mean for you? Tell me below 👇

#chronicillness #invisibleillness #spoonie #pots #chronicillnessawareness by @restingisproductive