When your body, energy, confidence, and capacity change, life rarely adjusts with you. In Episode 2, Brett Francis explores the reality of living with chronic pain, disability, exhaustion, parenting responsibilities, education goals, and ambition while the world continues expecting the same version of you that existed before. Brett also introduces the Still Standing Companion App, created to help people track wins, reflect on resilience, and keep moving forward one step at a time.

In the first episode of Still Standing, Brett Francis introduces the heart of the podcast: rebuilding a life when your body, energy, confidence, and capacity have changed, but the demands have not. This episode is for anyone living with chronic pain, disability, trauma recovery, exhaustion, parenting pressure, self-criticism, complicated processes, and the quiet grief of trying to keep going when life feels heavy.

This is not a perfect recovery story. It is a real-time rebuilding story.

Still healing. Still hurting. Still learning. Still standing.

Welcome to Still Standing, a podcast for anyone tired, overwhelmed, in pain, and still trying. Hosted by Brett Francis, this show explores disability, chronic pain, trauma recovery, parenting, education, work, relationships, self-criticism, and rebuilding life when your capacity has changed but the demands have not. Still healing. Still hurting. Still learning. Still standing.