Essays on what the system
doesn't want said.

Why disabled & chronically ill people are your best employees

Mental health is the missing link in chronic illness

What is patient experience data?

We need more patient voices in MedTech

How public policy can change the mental health space

Patient voices in Digital Health products

All about Inflammation with Dr. Natasha Punia

What inflammation actually is. Why it matters more than you think. And what's happening inside when you feel this bad.

The Mindful Migraine expert

Migraine isn't just pain. It's a system, a pattern, a thing to understand. What changes when you stop fighting it and start learning from it.

Redefining mental health with Vanessa Pott

What mental health actually is, once you stop measuring it against the wrong standard.

Falk Schuster on living with Major Depressive Disorder

What it actually feels like. Not the textbook version. The lived version.

The Medical Anthropologist

What happens when a doctor studies systems instead of just treating patients. Dr. Margret Jaeger on why your healthcare doesn't work.

Samah Atout on war and mental health

What happens when lived experience becomes policy. How trauma, resilience, and the refusal to be silent drive real change.

The Complete Pocket Guide to Medical Appointments

For patients who've been dismissed, confused, or talked over. How to prepare, advocate, and leave with what you actually needed.

The skills nobody taught me to name

Machines handle information. Humans handle transformation.

From medic to patient

Patient engagement is not empowerment

The spoonie tax

Women in healthcare deserve better

Buy a nice mattress and grow old with dignity

Thirty-three doctors

The ABC of Public Speaking

From someone who had to relearn how to speak after years of isolation: what it actually takes to find your voice and hold a room.

The Little Book of Patient Communication

What actually works when clinicians and patients try to understand each other — and why most communication training gets the hardest part wrong.

The Algorithm Will See You Now

What AI can do in healthcare. What it cannot see. And the patients it will abandon if we don't ask harder questions about what we're optimizing for.

What Do Patients Want?

The gap between what patients say and what they actually want — and why healthcare's biggest failure is listening to the wrong questions.

Revolution From My Bed

How chronic illness rewired everything I thought about work, identity, and what it means to build when you're not okay.

Good days are dangerous

The worst crashes come after the best days. Why feeling good is a trap, and how I learned to stop falling for it.

The isolated island of illness

Chronic illness is its own country. Nobody visits. Nobody speaks the language. And the loneliness is the part that almost kills you.

7 lessons I learned from 7 years in bed

Not advice. Not inspiration. Just what became clear when everything else was taken away.

Just get up.

What doctors kept telling me while my heart rate hit 170 from standing. What I learned about rebuilding a body that forgot how to work.

A 5090 Won't Fix This

I realized that even top-tier gaming hardware can't compensate for what chronic illness took from me.

The Metrics We Don't Have

Someone told me 'Revolution from My Bed' helped them while bedbound. I realized I had no way to measure the impact that actually matters.

Building Spoons.world: What We're Learning

The real challenges and breakthroughs in building a patient-side community platform where lived experience becomes data.

What Do You Do?

On the impossibility of fitting into categories when your life is all one work.

The Exoskeleton

Why getting an exoskeleton to manage PEM and exercise intolerance changes everything — and nothing.

Chronically: Where the Honesty Lives

Why chronically.life exists. Essays on chronic illness, patient advocacy, parenting through pain, healthcare, and showing up.

My $350 mini PC beats your $2000 gaming rig and also harms the planet less

The Minisforum U790 APU runs PUBG smoothly, fits on a shelf, costs a fraction of a gaming tower, and might be the future of home gaming nobody is talking about.

Shipping into the void

The specific terror of building something real, making it public, and watching the users not arrive.

I replaced a £600 Apple Watch with a $26 Pine64 and I am fine

The Apple Watch Ultra is extraordinary. The PineTime does everything I actually need. These facts can both be true.

The loneliness nobody mentions and the freedom nobody warns you about

Working alone is both harder and better than everyone said it would be. Mostly at the same time.

Why does everything I love try to kill me now

A semi-serious rant about food intolerances, histamine, MCAS, and how the chronically ill seem to be losing foods at an alarming rate.

How getting smaller saved my digital life

iPhone mini. Mini PC. MacBook Air. The year I stopped hauling a gaming rig everywhere and finally felt like my technology fit my life.

The Entrepreneurial Body Keeps the Score: What Building a Business with Chronic Illness Really Looks Like

The Story That Changed My Life (And Can Change Yours)

Revolutionizing Medical Education: The Empathy Imperative

Why Five Days Changed Everything for Future Doctors

Do You Really Want to Get Better?

The Hidden Comfort of Chronic Illness

The Rise of Patient Influencers

Shaping the Future of Healthcare

Disability as a Superpower

Roi's Argument for Inclusive Employment

Invisible Illness, Visible Resilience

The Silent Choreography of Pain

Or why we mask our suffering to fit in

The Daily Price of Patient Advocacy

Dancing with My Demons to Help Others Find Their Way

Breaking Free from Social Media's Success Theater

Parenting Through the Fog

A Chronicle of Love and Chronic Illness

Finally home again ✈️🎤

A quick life & Work update

You asked for it, I deliverd

A new Master Class in Public speaking

Hi, I'm Roi Shternin

Hi, I'm Roi. I help organizations and their teams flourish under uncertainty by building a practical blueprint for resilience

An Exciting Update & A Special Offer

Back to Life

My Journey from Bedridden to Walking Again

Breaking Free

A Raw Take on World Mental Health Day

Where Do I Begin?

A Crossroads of Choices

Your next speaker should be a patient.

From Victimhood to Responsibility Taking

Or how did I escape the victim trap.

Managing Energy with Chronic Illness

It's all in your Chest?

(It's Not All in Your Head!)

Revolution From My bed?

Where to start?

So we begin

And the body has it's say

Sick of my Sickness.

The Healing Power of Empathy in Medicine

Where to start?

Or - How to Untie the Knots

The Way Out

The Way Out

A Chronicle of Relapse and Redemption

Health IT is broken, Let's fix it.

A Tapestry of Strength: Fostering Collaboration in Patient Advocacy

Every Chronic Illness Has a Mental Health Component

Case managers: The missing link of Healthcare

Invisible Champions: Why Supporting Caregivers Strengthens Us All

Lost in the Labyrinth: Why Health Literacy is the Key to Patient Empowerment

The Duality of Illness: Embracing the Journey While Demanding Recognition

The Bias Silencing Women in Healthcare

Rare Beyond Diagnosis: A Different Perspective on Rare Disease Day

The Forgotten Price of Chronic Illness: A Systemic Approach to Reclaiming Wellness

Beyond the Buzzword: Why Patients Should Be the Pulse of Healthcare Innovation

Reclaiming Empathy in Healthcare

How “Illness Porn” Changed Chronic Illness Forever

The Patient loneliness epidemic

The Invisible Burden of Chronic Illness Loneliness

The Day Mental Health Is As Accessible As General Practice

The Coming Healthcare Revolution

Fighting for certainty: Why Patients are seeking information outside of the doctor's office.

Patient Empowerment: A Year in Review and a Call to Action

Is it time to finally empower Patients?

We are not clients.

Embracing True Patient Centricity in Healthcare

Valuing Patient Time as Much as Clinician Time

The Urge to Prove Our Worth

Chronically Ignored

The Invisible Struggle: The Mental Health Toll of Chronic Illness

The Time is Now to Bring Mental Health into the Mainstream

Learning from Israel's Response to Collective Trauma

A Revolution in Medical Education: The Power of Partnership and Resilience

The Wounds That Do Not Heal: The Trauma of War on the Soul of a Nation

Ableism is everywhere.

Your next speaker should be a patient.

Unlocking the Superpowers of Necessity: Why Chronically Ill and Disabled People May Be Our Best Employees

Unlocking the Superpowers of Necessity: Why Chronically Ill and Disabled People May Be Our Best Employees

It's Time to Acknowledge Invisible Illness and Disability

It's Time for a Chief Patient Officer in Every Healthcare Organization

It's Time to Lift the Taboo Off Mental Health

Is it Our Job to State Our Disabilities?

Patients are experts too.

The Isolated Archipelago of Illness

Harnessing the Power of Patient Experience Data, Patient-Reported Outcomes, and Patient Empowerment in Chronic Illness Management

Health Literacy: The First Step to Empowered Self-Management

Introducing Patient Schools: Empowering Chronic Patients through Education

The Importance of Having Your Own Resiliency Toolkit

Empathy, Resilience, and Patient Empowerment in Medical School

Empathy Training: A Promising Intervention for Improving Empathy Skills

Uplifting the Human Side of Healthcare

Patient Empowerment: The Power of Post-Traumatic Growth

Empowering Change: Empathy, Equity, and Resilience in the Face of Chronic Illness

Empowerment, Resilience, and Advocacy: Transforming Patient Experiences Worldwide

Paternalism to Empowerment

Issue 3: Revolutionizing Healthcare through Empathy, Innovation, and Patient Involvement

Empowering Voices: Navigating Compassion, Advocacy, and the Patient Experience

Chronicles of Resilience: Empowering Voices in Chronic Illness

How to manage expectations as a Chronically ill patient? (and how to support them as an HCP)

Falling from Grace: Rising Beyond Relapse as an International Public Speaker with Chronic Illness