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Jennifer Sarche MPH

About

Jen Sarché is a writer and public health officer who has worked with the Kaiser Family Foundation and the San Francisco Department of Public Health, among others. She earned degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Recent Posts
Good Hope and Bad Hope
Personal Perspective: There must be a line between the good hope that gets me up in the morning and to physical therapy and the bad hope that is unrealistic and can break my heart.
We got this
How to Ask for and Receive Help
Personal Perspective: Asking for help is hard, but instead of being ashamed or embarrassed, I feel insanely proud that I have built a community willing and ready to surround me.
Medical Trauma Is Real
The challenges before me as I prepare for this next surgery and the six-months-to-a-year of recovery are huge. But, I am not going to let trauma-brain run my life.
Goal Setting and Chronic Pain
A Personal Perspective: Setting and achieving goals makes me more hopeful about my future, even with chronic pain and chronic illness.
Me, my purple sweater, and my water bottle now cleverly held in my left hand
My Dumb Right Hand

A Personal Perspective: It took me months to seek the care I needed because medical trauma took my brain offline. What changed? A visit with my therapist. 

A Personal Perspective: It took me months to seek the care I needed because medical trauma took my brain offline. What changed? A visit with my therapist. 

An Ode to My Elevator

A Personal Perspective: I'm practicing self-care as I manage living with chronic pain in a building with broken elevators.

A Personal Perspective: I'm practicing self-care as I manage living with chronic pain in a building with broken elevators.

A New Label for Me: Dynamic Disability

A Personal Perspective: The label “dynamic disability” allows me to talk openly about what I can and can’t do, to share my experience with others, and to feel less alone.

A Personal Perspective: The label “dynamic disability” allows me to talk openly about what I can and can’t do, to share my experience with others, and to feel less alone.

My Inner Critic Is Ridiculous

A Personal Perspective: My challenge is to recognize when my shame is talking and assess what is helpful in what it tells me.

A Personal Perspective: My challenge is to recognize when my shame is talking and assess what is helpful in what it tells me.

Ableism in All Its Forms Is a Shame

When Denver City Councilman Chris Hinds had to crawl onto an inaccessible stage for a public debate, it evoked strong feelings. Advocacy helps.

When Denver City Councilman Chris Hinds had to crawl onto an inaccessible stage for a public debate, it evoked strong feelings. Advocacy helps.