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Who Am I Now? – Coping with Losing the Old You to Changing Health
Identity is that it is a very personal and individual thing; this blog post will give you a deeper peek into my own chronic illness struggle. However, the identity shifts that inevitably must happen alongside such health status shifts, I argue here, is the universal part. There is a grief to losing parts of yourself…
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When Doctors Don’t Listen: The Fight to Be Believed
This one is all about how to navigate the challenging task of talking to our doctors. For those of us with chronic health issues, this is frequent, tiring, can often be demoralizing, and just generally difficult. Few of us are fortunate enough to be able to say that all our medical interactions have been positive,…
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How to Find Joy When Chronic Illness Steals So Much
Today I would like to draw your attention to an emotion that certainly does not get the attention it deserves: happiness. After the weight of my blog post regarding anxiety and depression in chronic illness, I thought this topic would be a great way to help balance that out and contemplate ways to move forward…
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Chronic Illness, Mental Health, and the Fierce Power of Not Giving Up
Anxiety, depression, and the strength it takes to keep going instead of giving up and checking out… The reason I wanted to get into this heavier topic is that, with my own weird cluster of as-yet-determined health stuff, I monitor a lot of the chronic illness Facebook pages and socials. I will chime in here…
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My POTS Story: How Everything Changed Overnight
Navigating Life with POTS I appreciate that those who knew me from my practice are probably wondering: why am I not in the hands-on treatment game anymore? The short version of that story is POTS; not the kind in the kitchen although I do find it kind of ironic since that first knee injury which…