Lifestyle Management with Chronic Illness I don't know about you but I love a good Infographic, so when I was contacted about sharing this one related to Lifestyle Management with Chronic Illness, I said sure why not... well, as long as you don't mind me sharing my own thoughts about what is shared … [Read more...]
Time to stop surviving
I died at the age of 34. I was dead for three years but no one buried me. I'm thankful for that, because at the age of 37 I came back to life. Too often we spend our lives just surviving, just waiting for tomorrow. It's time to stop surviving and start living. My friend Jessica over at … [Read more...]
Surviving Fibromyalgia: How I #defypain
Today is Fibromyalgia Awareness Day (May 12, in case you are coming to this post later), and I thought it was an appropriate day to share a post on how I #defypain and how I'm Surviving Fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is characterized by widespread chronic pain, and while I may look healthy, and … [Read more...]
5 Tips for Staying Positive Despite Chronic Illness
5 Tips for Staying Positive Despite Chronic Illness When you live with chronic illness, life can be rough and it can be very difficult to remain positive. The little things often drag us down, we focus inward, and we forget to notice the small joys in life, while the small (and large) negatives … [Read more...]
Accepting Your Diagnosis
Acceptance is one of the five stages of grief, and it is not the first one. So, it's not a surprise that it's a struggle for many of us to accept our diagnosis. If you're like me, you've probably gone rounds with this, at times accepting your diagnosis only to follow it with another round of being … [Read more...]
Review: As My Body Attacks Itself
One of my favorite things about this blog is the way that it's allowed me to connect with so many awesome people. I hate that we are all suffering in some way, but that we can connect and that we can put our heads together and find ways to put things into words that one of us alone might not be able … [Read more...]
Holiday Traditions for the chronically ill
Hustle and bustle, two words that instantly come to mind when you think of the holiday season. All the stress of the other 11 months of the year packed into about 5 weeks. When asked what most Fibro folks and others with chronic pain and fatigue think of when they think of the holidays happy … [Read more...]
Sunday Inspiration: When Everything is Going Wrong, Be Thankful
The last thing anyone fighting any chronic illness wants to hear is that someone else has it worse than you do. It really doesn't matter that your illness might not potentially be your cause of death, it has lead to the end of your life (as you know it). Our lives will end dozens (if not hundreds) … [Read more...]
6 Things the Chronically Ill Wish Healthy People Could Understand
I started thinking about this topic recently, about how there are certain things about living with chronic pain that those around us will never understand. That a healthy person just can't (sometimes won't) understand. As I thought about what came to my own mind, I asked the question … [Read more...]
Do you use your illness as an excuse?
I have a confession, I've used my illness as an excuse a time or two. I've said I had a migraine to get out of something or to leave something early. We've had an event or two that neither of us really wanted to attend, so I developed a migraine after we got there to give us an early out. On the … [Read more...]
