This is such an important topic for people with disabilities and chronic illness. If you see me out in the wild, I am having a good day. For every day I can get out and interact with people, there are at least five spent mostly in bed, never venturing out of the back half of my house.

John Green has boiled this down to "Imagine others complexly." It's a lovely idea to put into practice.

Mental issues are also important to keep in mind. I am autistic. So my ability to do things isn't just a matter of my physical disabilities and chronic illness. My autism is also a factor. So I try not to judge myself based on other people. Not to mention that other people may have supports that I don't. I don't have a caregiver. I have to do everything for myself. So I am really proud of the fact that I can buy and prepare food, go to medical appointments etc. Sometimes just doing the basics is commendable.

Sick or not Claudia calling you out for the hair washing was excellent. Love Claudia always keeping it real.

Stumbled onto this video while lying in bed trying to figure out how to deal with absolutely debilitating anxiety. Thank you.

The is a really specific moment in this, around 15:35 where Jessica pulls a pain- face, and it looks exactly like my mum when she's got a migraine (which is frequently 😓) and it just broke me a little bit because I totally understand how this expression is a tiny fraction of the pain going on inside, and I just want to send you huge gentle hugs Jessica, and all you other chronic illness havers 🤗🤗🤗

Thank you so much for this! I've had a chronic illness since I was 8 years old, and I had parents who wanted as normal a life as possible for me and sort of encouraged me to put on a good face, so I learned at in early age to do that, thus fooling a whole lot of people into thinking I wasn't in a lot of pain all the time. Fast forward a decade or two to my adulthood, and I get doctors to whom I tell I have debilitating chronic fatigue and they act sort of like they take me seriously, but then my husband tells me later that no one would know because I act like I'm feeling so well. And I do it unconsciously. So at times when I'm having a fatigue crash, especially when I need my husband to drive me to an appointment, I ask him to come in to the appointment with me so that he can tell the doctor that what they see is not what's really going on with me. I think that has helped sometimes.

Thank you so much for this video! It’s cheesy as hell, but I had a therapist say something along those lines- ‘don’t compare other people’s highlights to your own blooper reel’. That phrase keeps me sane when I’m on social media now.

This was a very validating video - I’m autistic, and even before I knew that I knew I just could not do things other people could and felt so weak because of it. Now I know I’m super strong because I do so many things despite my disability! I may order my groceries delivered 90% or the time, and stay in my pajamas and work from bed most of the time, but I also lead meetings and go to the gym several times a week, and that’s strong too ☺️💕

My heart felt like it was going to explode when Claudia casually draped her arm around Jess’s waist. Love these 2 ❤

I am going through chemotherapy for breast cancer. And I really hoped to work more than I have been able too this week. Your video reminded me sometimes that is just how it works out.

I've been thinking about this for a while. I often feel like I'm pretending to be or not to be chronically ill, because I'm either disguising my bad days or, if I talk about my bad days during a good day, it sounds like it exaggerating them and putting them out of proportion. I've been wanting very much for people to not see me as split down the middle like that, trying to learn how to reach out and share all kinds of days, to be able to revel in feeling good and share what the bad times really look like, and still feel like someone with agency during them.

I became bedridden and solo back before the internet existed. I didn’t have staged lives on instagram to depress me. But neither did I have videos like yours to make me feel less alone in what I was going through. Bedridden and solo watching this now. (ME/CFS is such fun!) Thanks for sharing ❤ Wishing you good rest and clear lungs!

I would love some more chill videos honestly Jessica. There are so few people with invisible illnesses just showing the daily realities, so I don't have a huge amount to relate to online. Sending love

Thank you Jessica, it is so frustrating when people say "but you don't look sick" for a 64 year old chronic pain sufferer who has had chronic pain since my early 20's it really does get boring & annoying. I wish you a very speedy recovery. 💛💛🧡🧡♥♥💜💜💙💙💚💚🖤🖤

I’m dealing with depression. Some days all I do is sleep, let my dog out in the yard and take meds. Then there are several days in a row I act like a normal person doing errands and stuff around the house. I understand how you feel. I have had bronchitis several times and it can really hurts. I hope you feel better. I’m glad you have Claudia to be there for you.

I'm on 8 hrs sleep in 3 days, diabolically messy home, chronic illness playing up, and about to start another round of IVF meds. I needed this to make me feel validated enough to just eat some crappy noodles and play a video game rather than try and somehow make this a 'good' (basically a 'productive') day. Get well soon and keep making your wonderful unfiltered content 💛

I wish I had your videos back in high school. They would have not only helped me get through my toughest moments, but I think they could have helped my parents and more specifically my dad, understand me. He would say, "if you can lay in bed and watch KZfaq all day, why can't you go to school?" and I tried to articulate why I can do one thing but not another, but I just didn't know how to.

indeed, i do feel better watching you share about your bad days. not in a "harrharharr (Mr. Burns laugh) I´m better than her!"-way, but in a "I´m not alone with my bad days" way. i hope you feel better soon!

I didn't know how much I needed this. I don't usually write comments but I just wanted to say thank you for sharing this, I've been feeling pretty down on myself for being sick lately and I feel a lot less alone when I see stuff like this ❤️

I also have a handful of chronic illnesses and am sick. This video made me feel like I wasn't hidden away in my room alone but hanging out with my sick friend. Thank you for that!

Love the "Edna Mode" glasses.👓 Please keep them!!😊😊

I know there’s more than one person that was helped with this video, but this really helped me. I’ve barely been able to leave the house or see people since 2019. Today really hit me with feeling like my life is meaningless. This helped me so much. I need to work on being ok with just being. It’s hard. Thank you for this. 💜

Thank you for sharing this

First of all, I'm so sorry you have such a terrible lung infection. I hope you get better soon ❤ Secondly, this video was so needed. For so many reasons. People that don't have chronic illness/disability need to see this video so they can understand that when they see someone out and about having a good day, they are seeing them at their absolute best, and unfortunately that is not their day-to-day reality. Those of us with disabilities or chronic illnesses needed this to remind ourselves of the same thing, and not to compare ourselves to others on their good days.

Thank you for something I sometimes forget. I have metastatic breast cancer. It’s not that I feel unhealthy, it’s that I am always -always- so very tired. I have days where I’m able to do things and days I’m lucky I can get out of bed & get dressed. My problem is on good days I over do it. I still can’t figure out how to pace myself. And when people see me having a good day they say, “you’re handling it so well.” No. No, not really. Just not good at not being upbeat when others are around. Hope you feel better soon. ❤

Really appreciated what Claudia said at the end! I've been learning aerial hoop for about a year and it's been incredibly hard with my disabilities. I started with basically no muscles at all and I find it so much harder than everyone else. It's really difficult to focus on my own progress and not just feel rubbish because everyone else can do so much better than me. I feel the same as an author, I often look at people who win awards and have huge success and feel like I'm not good enough. I like the idea of instead thinking about how I can be a positive presence and if helped anyone or made them smile etc, to take my mind off comparisons. Thank you!

Jessica and Claudia, you don’t realise how your words impact people in a positive way. To know that people who follow you, feel comforted in the knowledge they are not the only ones who feel they way they do. You two bring smiles back on people’s faces and positive thoughts to enable them to fight their own battles, physical or mental. ❤❤❤

The mentality of I suffered so you should too is something I don’t understand. If I suffered, I don’t want someone else to suffer in the same way. I try to help others when I can. Literally just kind words can help.

I really needed this today. We're sick today and have been struggling for a while, and keep thinking recently about how it hurts that the people around us mostly don't know, that when we go out it's only when we're able to and that's how they see us.

I'm feeling this so much right now. I have a five-day Holter heart monitor strapped to my chest, and of course, the days I've had it on are some of the best I've had in over a year. I'm afraid that when my cardiologist sees these results, he may think that I don't need the treatment I'm scheduled for, when I absolutely do - he's just seeing an unnaturally, unexpectedly good moment in my health, which is very uncommon for me! Seeing only the "good" moments could literally deny me care right now, and it's throwing into sharp relief that it's so vital in so many ways that chronically ill folk are believed when we articulate when we're doing poorly! I hope you get back to baseline soon, and are able to kick this infection with as few lasting effects as possible! 🌈

Such a good point that’s so hard for everyone to remember - us as chronically ill or disabled people ourselves AND those not experiencing it. Even the editing you choose to make a point out of your coughing but that’s only the most obvious symptom. Depending on the day I find it either inspiring or demoralising to see. Nothing is different on either day except our perspective.

Thank you for sharing this. Having autism, anxiety, and depression means my hard days don’t have a visible reason. It bugs me when people judge what I can do and disbelieve me when I say I struggle. Hope you feel better soon 💕

In Denmark a group of chronically ill people have started a thing called “chronic influencers” and we share the good and the bad on insta and Facebook ❤ I started shading myself some years ago but Instagram bullied me too much technologically with not letting me have an account for my art and one for my illness stuff seperately but switch between them. But if one doesnt have that problem I recommend ❤

I just want to appreciate how much effort you're putting in when you're feeling so terrible. Even if it's just you doing what you can, it's still a lot of effort and a lot to share. Feel better!

i was just talking about this! visited family and they all think i’m well again because they saw me at a few dinners. very difficult experience. thank you so much for bringing positivity and encouragement to my life

Dog [not sure whether it is Walter or Tilly] is there for you! She/he is noticing your every move and cuddling in close. She/he is very empathic. Beautiful little dog. Sweet.. ps: Can we have a video all about Tilly and Walter, please?

Claudia is a lovely person! It's a great feeling to help someone you love, and Claudia seems to be pretty great at it. (Though naturally I am judging her by her good days, the ones I am privvy to - but it's a good example to attempt to emulate)

The intro scared the life out of me 🤣

I’ve always said everyone is absolutely different from everyone else. So of course no one else is the same. You don’t share the same body for one thing. From there the list just goes on.

Very much needed this video today. As an autistic person, my executive functioning isn't exactly spectacular. I feel like it's been worse than usual lately, but who knows, definitely not great to begin with. Anyway, I've been unintentionally comparing myself to my peers quite a lot these last couple weeks, and I've just felt like I'm not doing well enough, not trying hard enough, that I should be able to do better. I do know that I'm doing my best, but that just doesn't feel like it's good enough. I brought this up during the autism support group I go to at my university, and we had a sort of similar conversation, about how well we've managed to do in our classes academically but how that doesn't portray how much of a struggle it is for us to get those grades. It was more about that than comparing ourselves to others, but that's also super important and probably something we should talk about.

I had to give up social media because the comparison happened even when I wasn't aware of it. It's been super helpful for me. Although not necessary for everyone.

I can relate a lot to this today. I’m also stuck in bed with what feels like the worst chest infection I’ve ever experienced and I needed this video so much. It made me feel much better about myself and reminded me to be kinder to myself when I need it most! I hope you feel better soon, sending love 💜

You made somebody feel better for sure! Me! I'm dealing with post-covid on top of my usual stuff (RA, CFS/ME and post brain injury seizures and other lovely things) and even though I have deleted social media specifically because I wanted to feel less rubbish, I still see people around me and how they function in ways I'm not able to and it makes me feel very useless, powerless, demotivated at times. In the "I am trying so hard and yet I'm failing" kind of way, maybe more in competition with fictitious healthy self more than with other people. ANYWAY, my point is that your bad days videos help me immensely. They help me accept over and over that I am sick and I am not choosing to be unproductive. Thank you, Jessica. Thank you for all the gentle reminders that it's okay to be disabled and take time to care about your needs. Hope you feel better soon, sending all the spoons I have left And to all of the others having a day as well.

I'm in a depression episode. We'll be sick together Jessica!

I’ve been going through CBT lately and this part about “changing the thought” and “don’t compare yourself to other people” and I’m so glad these things are connecting. I struggled with like serious social media sadness lately too. Thanks so much!

Who you are as humans together, and your presence on social media. You make a difference in my life. Jessica and Claudia thank you!

So true that you shouldn't judge strangers by the one encounter you had with them, I always try to give people the benefit of the doubt. I hope others are like that for me too. I mean, I'm generally a nice person but 12 hours of travel, no food all day, and a missed train was the reason I told some fools who were bashing their way into the air train to "Just fucking wait!" when ordinarily I would have kept my annoyance to myself. Being "Hangry" is a real thing!

Thank you so much for this, people tell me all the time "you look great today!" and it's always awkward when I correct them

When I'm feeling depressed, my body put it's foot down and made me quit my job for three months, I enjoy watching videos which I would categorized as quite, gentle homelife. They normally have warm lighting and lofi music, which for me when I'm depressed high energy videos make me feels anxious and more exhausted. Which does lead me to comparing myself to those people subcousiously. I have cut out alot of my social media in the past couple years since I honestly felt more depressed and anxious after being on IG and Twitter. I obviously still use YT, but I have become more particular on what I am watching.

My disabled self feels indescribably alone today. Thank you for this video. I love you and Claud so much. Get better soon Jess!

I’ve also been sick for weeks, you have my empathy. I’ve been bedridden. I’m also disabled with chronic illnesses and I’ve been hit in the face (AND CHEST) too. Get well soon ❤❤❤

I'm so sorry you're feeling extra badly, but grateful to feel seen a validated and to see content created on a bad day. Thank you for being vulnerable and being kind to yourself!

This video did definitely help me as I've been feeling so guilty about my bad days, about not posting enough and not being productive. 💕 Thank you for posting it. Going to try taking things as my own pace and forgiving myself a little more

My SI is very unstable causing severe pains and cramps. To get through the pain, I grab ahold of the well wishes my community send me. They warm my heart by keeping me company. Community is everything. Thank you for being part of my community.

I watched this while folding laundry (very slowly) in bed :) I really appreciate what you said in this video, I find myself frustrated sometimes when people around me don't seem to understand how terrible I feel sometimes, but I'm realizing I'm probably not communicating that to them very well when I just shut myself in my room at the worst times. I hope your infection and cough clears up soon!

Feel better soon, Jessica. I feel you. Mine is more struggling with keeping things together while caring for two children on my own. Missing a lot of activities. Just because it's too much sometimes.

The story about being in school really resonated with me. I feel for teenage me. I used to feel so disempowered because instead of being acknowledged for the effort it took to do one lesson, I had exactly the same 'why not the whole day?' and it made me feel like a malingerer, when of course I wasn't! Edit: I hope you're back to your normal soon, for your sake and your family's x

I find these types of videos of yours really endearing. They help me to be kind to myself, and they help me feel more connected to others. I also generally love the message that a person's worth isn't tied to what they produce. Thank you for showing us this side as I know it can be hard. Take care and rest as much as you need!

Oh I didn't know Claudia got more tattoos! Very cool

Ok so this is something I say to people all the time!! Just because I can do something one day doesn't mean I can the next.. I'm currently in therapy for complex OCD specifically for contamination. I did a experiment with 2 jars and some marbles. Ocd jar and I win jar! I put a marble in the ocd jar if I gave into a compulsive behaviour and my win jar if I didn't. I do this daily and track it. It's now a very nice way to show people just how different my days can be. The exercise also benefits me as I can track my progress. I have physical issues that effect me on the daily but I thought this was a realy good example that shows day to day struggles in a visual way. Hope u feel better soon hun 💕

Sick in bed or dolled up to go, you are beautiful, inside and out. Sharing your vulnerability and low moments is painfully brave. And inspirational. Claudia is the best wife, ever. Love your videos!

As someone who pays for my good days with bad weeks I feel this!! Thank you for talking about it!

I like the idea of nurturing ourselves to not be ladder kickers-- to be okay with someone having it better, we should not want people to have to deal with awful stuff, like student loans. And if we can't want that for purely kind reasons, we can pick the selfish/petty reasons like because they might help us in some way, or our children!

I hope you feel better very soon. I have a chest infection as well with that annoying cough. Mine has just started. All my other disabilities(none the same as yours) keep me limited more often than not but I like you choose to keep moving forward everyday. I agree, never compare yourself to others, your journey is yours. Love seeing Claudia always. You two make a wonderful couple and Rupert from what we can see is growing up so handsomely too. Loves to Walter and Tilly as well. Much love ladies!

These videos where you openly show your bad days as well are immensely helpful to me whenever I have a bad day, be it due to mental or physical issues. They have literally gotten me through the worst day of my life, and eased the panic disorder that came after it. You always provide such a beautiful combination of personal experience, kindness and emotional support, and helpful thoughts and tools! I would like to try and help as well by describing my own good and bad days for anyone who is interested :) My set of regular issues is rather different from Jessica's: It's usually almost exclusively in my brain (various forms of neurodivergence) while my body is technically fine, but my range from good to bad days is also quite extreme. In the hopes that it may be helpful, I'll elaborate in some detail. When I have a good day and have taken my meds, I am able to do SO MUCH stuff from, bascially, 8am to 11pm with only short breaks for using the bathroom or eating. What I consider a relaxing walk in this state is more like a small hike of around 3 hours, and I still dance around at home after it. I am able to focus on and create beautiful fictional writing for hours, or have a deep philosophical and moral discussion with complete strangers. I answer all my e-mails and messages quite quickly. I am able to go out to different places to run errands. Uni activities are not only easy, they give me energy. My brain is ridiculously good at and enjoying tackling almost any academic problem, and it's using its full potential. I analyse and question everything with great skill and joy. I have so much love for everything and everyone, and the energy to show it. In the span of one day, I can practise and/or use four different languages, listen to movie analysis podcasts and a Stanford lecture on biology, repair a t-shirt, watch Star Trek (and need a moment to happy stim because of how much I love Data), comfort a friend, read academic texts and Shakespeare to prepare for uni, go buy some bread, sing and dance to stim, make dinner while still singing, and finish the day with video calling a different friend for three hours. Even the things that are more difficult are still stimulating enough that I can do them. And I feel SO accomplished and content in the evening. On a bad day, I plan to get up at 7am and actually get up at 2pm or later. I once had one in the winter where it was already dark again when I got up. It's not even that I sleep so long, I just can't find the motivation to leave my bed. I barely manage to eat enough, because I have to prepare the food first and every single movement is exhausting and slow and it feels like I am moving through water with weights on my arms even though my body is, technically, fine. Even if I want to take a walk, because I LOVE my walks and they always make me feel better, I often don't even make it out of the house. I can't concentrate on anything, no matter how much I love the thing I'm trying to focus on. Deciding to do and then actually doing a thing like opening Discord, choosing a playlist, and pressing 'play' can take five hours. I sit on the floor in my room, in the same spot, the entire day. Things outside my reach may as well not exist at all - if I can't reach my cup, I don't drink anything for hours even though I am thirsty. I forget to pee until my body is in pain sometimes. I scroll social media despite not enjoying the content, until my hands hurt, and even if I manage to put the phone down, I am unable to find something else to do so I just pick it back up. Having even one single thing on my to-do-list, even if it's just a well-known task of five minutes, feels paralysing - to clarify, it's not even doing the thing, it's just knowing it's there, on the list. I want do SOMETHING but everything feels wrong and I don't even have the energy to get properly angry about it. I know talking to friends helps but I can't even answer one text message. Sometimes, I manage to occupy my brain with daydreaming instead of doom scrolling, but then I sort of disappear into the daydream and can't stop for hours. And I feel guilt about ALL of this and don't have the energy to explain to my brain that I don't need to in a way that it understands, even though I KNOW, from experience, that it can. Now, these are, of course, extremes, and both occur comparatively rarely. If I functioned every day like I do on a good day, I would probably be the happiest, most competent uni professor that has ever existed by my mid twenties, sewing my entire wardrobe myself, regularly talking to my 300 friends and fluently speaking, like, ten languages. If I functioned every day like I do on my bad days, I would probably be unable to stay alive without someone helping me to eat, drink and pee regularly every day. I would most likely not be able to have anything that the current economy would deem a career, and I would maybe manage to have between one and three friends I talk to very rarely. None of these extremes are 'objectively' good or bad or unrealistic for everyone, but they are, currently, both extremely unrealistic FOR ME. So, it wouldn't make sense to act as if they were achievable or certain - I shouldn't strive for reaching fluency in a new language every year, but I also shouldn't feel like I need to completely stop working towards my eccentric professor career goals just because I can't work towards them on SOME days. It's all on spectrums (spectra?), like many things are. I am actually fairly happy with most of my personal spectrums at this point, and I hope, if anyone has read this far, that this was helpful, or at least entertaining, and that you are or will be happy with your own spectrums as well :)

Love your pjs!!

I like that Claudia hijacked the video. It sort of makes it two videos and honestly it’s every bit as supportive as everything else she seems to do. I’ve always been very impressed that she seems to lift the weight of ten people while taking care of so many others whom display the same level of capability intelligence and talent in the face of any challenge or task. They are astoundingly impressive people and they are a good example of taking pleasure in peoples successes. Whether it’s tiny or utterly monumental most of what they do is a triumph and it’s only one of many positive perspectives they offer. If there is one word that stands out the most to me it’s usually “impressed”. Yet people still feel bad about wanting some time to themselves even when they have stacks and stacks of trouble. It’s a weird feeling to have really high standards for yourself, but it’s certainly not just yourself that influences those standards. It can sometimes even be a response to the toxic sides of things Claudia is talking about and it is really important that we understand what each other might go through and try to be good to each other. Making the world a little less cruel can be alot easier than you think and you do deserve to know that if you’re trying you are more than good enough.

Ouch..my chest hurt every time you coughed or breathed in after a cough.❤️ Every cold I have goes straight to my chest. You explained how it feels when coughing so well; shards of glass, check☑️🫤 Thinking of you. And although it feels like it never will go away…sometimes you really do need more than a month before you get better. It will end…just takes longer than others.

I've got Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus and I've had people call me a liar or a bludger when I've discussed my bad days with others. They think because they don't see it, it doesn't happen. But really, they only haven't seen it because I simply can't leave my house (more specifically my bedroom or bathroom) on those days. If you are seeing me out somewhere, it's a good day.

Watching you as i'm dealing with covid a second time so i can empathize with how you must be feeling. Sending healing wishes your way from the middle of the usa.

Your videos are literally water in the desert for me. I have several chronic illnesses, and chronic pain from fibromyalgia. On top of finally partially coming out in my 30s, there is so much of your content that I relate to and am comforted by. You and Claudia are my ultimate couples goals! ❤️

Ohhhhhh little Tilly loves her momma!

I needed this today! Thank you Jessica ❤

Thanks for a very important video! You two are lovely + inspiring (even on your bad days ;)

I've been looking for these words for so long, thank you for this

I really enjoyed this video thank you!

Thanks for such a chill video! I'm in bed today (more from pure exhaustion than anything) and your videos are always like meeting a friend for a quick, cozy chat. Hope your infection goes away soon!

This video made me feel SO much better. I have chronic pain, and I work as a nurse in a hospital. 12 hour shifts on my feet take it out of me. I love caring for others when they are not having their "good days," but I often compare myself to my coworkers who seem to do so much on their days off. I have been having a bad pain week and am on the couch on my day off with my heating pad feeling like I should be more productive. This video is what I needed to see today

Thank you, Jessica, I needed this today.

All the love to you and Claudia!

❤ you both!!! Hope Jessica will be better soon!!!

Feel better hun 💖

Thanks! i think this is an important lesson, and I have think about similar things Claudia talked about. I wish you well!! ❤❤❤ I actually had a terrible day (xingjing ping just get his president for life in China, I can't help but to feel afraid and bleak about my future and our future); Nonetheless, calming and heartwarming to see your guys together. Everyone seems to have their own struggle, hopefully, we could be more sympathetic and learn strength from one another. --peace, see you shine again.

❤Sweet Jessica, thank you for making this video. I hope that it opens people’s eyes to the different sides of living with debilitating chronic illnesses. Others (even those who are fairly close to us) rarely know the full extent of our suffering, or what the after effects of activities (large or small) can be. In the same way, we should not assume that we can judge another person. One action, one conversation, etc. will not inform us of the complexities of their life. As I lie here in bed, feeling awful from multiple chronic illnesses, I am thankful for your courage and how generous you are with your life. Keep telling your story and being the lovely person that you are.

Thank you Jessica 💜

Ive been newly battling chronic illness for a year now, which unfortunately means I had to give up my lovely caring job at a resthome and can barely work. Meanwhile watching all of my other friends begin to go to uni, get promotions, move out, etc, and seeing your video makes me feel so much better about how much I can and cannot do anymore. This just made me feel better about myself and I thank you for putting this out on the internet and also just becoming an extremely comforting channel to watch on good and bad days

Really needed this video this week 😻💛 thanks Jessica! Hope you start feeling better!!

I really really struggle with feeling guilty about my needs. Even when I KNOW logically that everyone else is happier when I take care of myself...I just judge myself for having "more" needs than other people. My husband always says "I'd rather you take an hour right now than spend days in the hospital later"....which is obviously true. I just still feel so guilty. Do you have any coping skills/advice for that?

I had a really bad day yesterday. Some random person gave me a compliment on what I was wearing. One sentence in passing. It was the best thing of that day. They have probably forgotten that already and they probably thought I was feeling really put together which I wasn't. So both: They saw one of the best parts of me that day and they made the best part of it, too. And we never realise it's that easy to be seen as better than we are and to make someone feel much better without doing much at all.

thank you so much for sharing this

I hope you feel better soon! I’ve also been stuck in bed lately, though thankfully it wasn’t a lung issue this time.

Everything I needed to hear today. Thank you!

this was helpful to me. thank you and hoping this infection eases up soon for you

The way Jessica looks at Claudia with SO MUCH LOVE 💜💜💜

I really needed to see this video right now, for multiple reasons. Thank you both 🖤🖤🖤

It's funny that you mentioned washing your hair because I was thinking, as you said it, that you looked way more put together than I would be if I were you right then. Like, you would not see me washing my hair with a lung infection or whatever. I just simply would not.

Thank you and sending healing energy your way

I've been super sick over the last week (on top of the usual fatigue) and it was comforting to watch a video where you're also struggling and sick - makes me feel less alone in things - hopefully we're both feeling a bit better soon though

Really needed this today - I’m laid up in bed feeling like I’ve been hit by a bus after majorly overextending myself the past week 😅 people think social media is a full representation of someone’s life when we’re often only showing the good days, and I’ve often felt like people doubt my illness or don’t take it seriously because I have good days. But good days aren’t every day and I’m grateful to you for sharing this! Sending well wishes and love 💕