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Chronic Pain, Fibromyalgia, Health & Wellness, Lupus (SLE), Mental Health, Reflections, Reflections & Advocacy
Self-care & Managing the Chaos
The resistance needs you, so you need to take care of yourself! Here are 5 ideas for self-care that altogether total 30 minutes. Give one or all of them a try and keep fighting!
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Accidentally Like a Martyr
If only we were in the episode City on the Edge of Forever maybe we would be able to get a peep at what a monumental cluster-fuck our future is going to be and start doing the right fucking thing for a change.
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A Rant
It's okay to want to be healthy. That's how you are supposed to feel.
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Once more…
Life is the last good fight I’ll ever know. It’s beautiful and brutal, heartbreaking and tender.
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Memory & Music
The more time I spent listening and remembering, the more I realized that Prince’s music was the touchstone for some of the most pivotal times in my adolescence and young adulthood.
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I am More
I am more than a body with an illness. An exploration of recovery and self-perception.
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The Rare Side Effects of Being Alive
Each day should come with a label, like the pieces of extraneous paper the pharmacy hands out with medication or those horrible televised commercials from Big Pharma.
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Doctors, They will Come and They Will Go-Whoa-Whoa
Isn't it funny how monitoring symptoms and practicing medicine seems to assist in alleviating a patient’s concerns?
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Lessons Learned
I thought I knew what to expect when we got on the phone with the credit counselor, after all, I’ve been on the counseling side of this conversation plenty of times. I was wrong. There were some unexpected lessons waiting for me on the other side of this experience that I had not anticipated.
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Introductions All Around
This blog is about life after a chronic illness plays merry hob with your hopes and your fears and life during the terrible and wonderful process of recovery.
