


Folks Video Story: Painting In Pain
"I don't like putting my pain in my work a lot," says painter Hertz Nazaire, who has Sickle Cell disease. "But it sneaks in there. It can't be helped."

Subduing The Voices: A PillPack Customer Story
Like many in her family, schizophrenia almost destroyed Monique Jevne's life, until she admitted she needed help.

Folks Video Story: An Orchestra For Everyone
In our first Video Story, we visit the world's only classical music ensemble for the mentally ill to see how Bach and Beethoven can help keep depression in check.

Community Roundup: What’s The Best Advice You’ve Ever Received About Being Chronically Ill?
Tell your story. Advocate for yourself as a patient. Replace your old dreams or new ones. Here's some great advice on being disabled or chronically ill from our Twitter community.

Community Roundup: How To Be A Good Ally To The Chronically Ill
From baking a sick friend a casserole to protesting with them on the front lines of the disabled rights movement, here are some of the best ways to be an ally to the chronically ill.

Community Roundup: Imagining A World Where Disability Is Normal
From workplaces offering 'good health' days instead of sick days, to universal, affordable health care, a world in which it is 'normal' to be disabled or chronically ill doesn't sound dystopian at all. In fact, it sounds like heaven.

2017: Our Favorite Athletes
Sport is for everyone. Here are some of the most amazing athletes we spoke to in 2017.

2017: Our Favorite Health Heroes
Most heroes don't wear capes. From Obama's inclusivity advisor to a couple jokesters in Groucho Glasses, here are ten of the bravest health champions we wrote about in 2017.

2017: Our Favorite Interviews
Some of our favorite interviews of the year include a refugee who fled 2,200-miles by wheelchair, a rapper who has made a career rhyming about mental illness, and more.
Folks is an online magazine dedicated to telling the stories of remarkable people who refuse to be defined by their health issues. By sharing the experiences of these individuals, we hope to change people’s notions about what it means to be ‘normal’.
Editorially independent, Folks is sponsored and published by PillPack. Part of our mission at PillPack is to create healthcare experiences that empower people. We don’t believe people are defined by their conditions. We pay our contributors, and we don’t sell advertising.
If you’d like to partner with Folks, or share a story, let us know at folks@pillpack.com.
John Brownlee, Editor-in-Chief
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