I Built Spooniversity Because Everything Else Was Designed for Healthy People

I spent seven years in bed before I was diagnosed. I spent the next ten years in and out of it. During those years, I tried every online course platform built for education.

I spent seven years in bed before I was diagnosed. I spent the next ten years in and out of it. During those years, I tried every online course platform built for education.

They all assumed the same thing: that you're sitting upright at a desk. That you can attend a live call at 2pm on Tuesday. That you'll come back to the module next week when you're ready.

None of them worked for me.

When you have POTS, or ME/CFS, or any chronic illness that eats your time in unpredictable chunks, a traditional course platform becomes another source of shame. You miss a live session because you're crashing. You fall behind because this week your body had different plans. The platform counts your "engagement" in ways that feel like failure.

There's a word for that. It's called broken design.

So I built Spooniversity differently.

It's not a course platform designed for healthy people. It's a learning community designed specifically for people managing chronic illness — people who live with unpredictable energy, who think in spoons, who know that showing up looks different every week.

Here's what that actually means:

There are no live sessions you have to attend. No "you missed week 3 — you're behind" energy. No leaderboards. No engagement metrics that punish your body. The content is asynchronous, self-paced, and designed to be consumed in the 15-minute chunks that's all some days afford.

The curriculum is built by people who live with chronic illness, teaching things we wish someone had taught us — how to talk to systems that don't believe you, how to build a life that's not organized around productivity, how to think about your health when medicine has let you down.

Five tracks. 100+ lessons. Community built into the platform through our virtual campus at Cosmos. People learning together, which matters — because one of the cruelest parts of chronic illness is the feeling that nobody else understands what you're living with.

Pricing is designed for our actual lives. €99 for the first cohort. 30-day unconditional money-back guarantee. No surveillance, no shame.

I'll be honest with you: Spooniversity isn't for everyone.

It's not for people looking to "optimize their life" or "get the most out of every hour." It's for people living with the constraint, and who've discovered that constraint teaches you clarity that abundance never will.

It's for people who know that being ill is not failure.

It opens in May. Early access starts this week.

If this is for you — if you're tired of platforms designed by people who've never experienced the reality you're living — come learn with us.

spooniversity.org