Circles of Hands
Emotions are a part of life. Though we often resist or push back on emotions . We don’t want to feel the negative stuff. We don’t want to be the Debbie Downer that talks about the negative stuff. At some …
Category: Emotions
Of Machines and Men
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn I find myself weary of my peers who see their bodies as machines. In fact, within the past few years, this viewpoint has moved …
Finding Support: Outside & In
One of the toughest thing about being “chronic” in your twenties is that your peers just don’t get it. You know what I’m talking about. Most folks in their teens, twenties and sometimes into their thirties believe that their body …
FML – Looking for a Pragmatic Approach to Anger
Having this disease makes me feel a lot of things. Pain, frustration, resentment, and more often than I like to admit, I feel angry. I get pissed off and upset about the fact that I can’t do the things I …
Aging with Chronic Illness
It’s my birthday. Yes, there is going to be much celebrating. Yes, there will be cake, and yoga, and Ethiopian food and all the other things I love (including my fabulously supportive fella D). However, in the back of my …
Don’t Ask How Old I Am. Please.
Amongst elders, there’s a commonly understood, but usually unspoken, rule: Don’t ask a lady her age. It’s impolite. It’s unprofessional. And it makes people uncomfortable. There are just way too many ways to get the answer “wrong.” Although I write this …
Fatigue is Real
Being the twenty-something that I am, I tend to like to think I can push through just about anything. Teach five heated classes in a day? No problem. Cram a full day’s worth of work into a four hour span? …
Medical Quota?
Do you think it’s possible for a person to hit a sort of medical bad luck quota? So far this year, I’ve sprained an ankle–with a torn ligament, had a questionable mole removed, and racked up a fair share of …
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I Don’t Do Mornings
As a self-described morning person, coming to terms with the fact that there are things I just can’t do in the mornings has irked me since my Chronic diagnosis. Listen here body: I like to do yoga in the morning. …
Truth is Shocking
I recently learned something shocking about my family–I alluded to bits and pieces of it last week in one of my posts about gratitude, although it’s more complicated than I knew at the time… It got me thinking about how …