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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…
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Reflection
REFLECTION Life and death are hot topics in the psyche for the mass of humanity for the first time in a very long time… They have also become hot topics in my household, as my children try to understand the loss of our beloved cat Ninja; the first big death they have ever really experienced.…
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A New Way To Get a Reading
So some of you may have noticed the service offering I have on here known as a “Body Wisdom Reading”, but what is that exactly? If you’ve gotten a conventional reading before, they may have used either tarot or oracle cards, perhaps they read your palms or tea leaves, cast runes or worked with I…
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The Power of Silence
Three full days of silence, why would anyone want to do that? My friend Laura even asked before I left work the last day “three full days with no human contact?” Absolutely!
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Do I Need a Massage???
Maybe you eat really well, or you’re really active and make sure you stretch before and after your activities. There’s an occasional ache or pain which crops up, but it’s never bothersome for too long, and seems to go away on its own. Perhaps you’re “just getting old”, so headaches and backaches (and other joint…
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Why ‘North Star’?
First off: hooray for new beginnings! I am excited to begin this leg of my journey as a natural health practitioner and healer, and want to say thank you so much to those who have tagged along with me thus far. Without you, I would not be able to make a living at doing what…