Living with EDS: Secrets of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome w/ Catching On Thieves

Light Alchemy

We chat w/ fellow Ehlers Danlos Zebra bae Catching On Thieves about all things EDS, healing, pleasure, pain without suffering, and so much more!

Catching is a multimedia artist who creates to both understand what is to be & to stay alive. She writes of spies & prophets, Y2K conspiracies & the relationship between abstraction, perception & interoception. Titles of her recent works include, "Memory, Vein," “Mulata She-male Gets it From All Sides,” & “Not One & Simple, or, What Would James Baldwin Do?” She was resident at the Queer Materials Lab, Translab, The Performance Intensive, PAPA, PAAFF, and Session 9 of the Raw Materials Academie hosted at the Philadelphia ICA in Spring 2022. She is currently getting her MFA from UPenn in fine arts, and is a 2023 Queer Art mentorship fellow. Under the mentorship of Lilly Wachowski, co-creator of the Matrix franchise and Sense 8, she will be working on her first feature film. You can find her online at www.catching on thieves.com

EDS/Dysautonomia Resources + Tools we discussed today:

• Internal Family Systems: ifs-institute.com
• Article on effortless mindfulness by Loch Kelly with guided mediation for pain: www.lochkelly.org/effortless-mindfulness-for-pain-relief
• Papers on estrogen and athletic performance/ injury risks: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6341375 + www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4805849
• Relaxin and its relationship to joint/muscle performance: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4282454