So winter here in Canada (aside from Vancouver, those lucky bastards!) and other places can endure a long time. Chronic pain tends to be worse
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Motivational slump
Chronic illness comes with fatigue more often than not. And we don’t feel well with various symptoms. We are tired. We are sick. It is
Chronic Voice prompts for February
A Chronic Voice’s prompts for February: Adjusting Hoping Surviving Befriending Awakening The idea is to pick 3 or more and link-up with other bloggers. Adjusting
Chronic illness: Tired? Or fatigue?
So your friend had a long day at work and is tired And you have fatigue And they say ‘Yeah everyone gets tired sometimes’ So
Do you tell people about your invisible illness?
Do you tell people about your chronic illness? Why? And why not? For me, it is a matter of having an invisible disability (obviously
Chronic illness: The blame game
When you are healthy and suddenly become chronically ill there are a lot of adjustments that we have to make. When we are chronically ill
Losing your career due to chronic illness
I have lost two careers due to chronic illness. My academic career where I was going to go for my Ph.D. but due to unmanaged
Chronic illness: 2018 Yearly review
So I saw this on TV as a good idea to practice. Do a yearly review of our year at the end of the year.
When life sucker punches you
So we have chronic pain and illness but it doesn’t exempt us from life stresses that slap us upside the head. If anything, we experience
7 things I use to survive the winter
Winter just amps up the pain and I have no temperature control so I am constantly freezing. Constantly. So I need to manage the pain
Chronic Voice Prompts: Meeting, Tweaking, Working
Time for November Chronic Voice’s blogger prompts! Meeting Advocating Tweaking Working Curating Meeting: So my father has moved provinces and just recently arrived. My spouse
Chronic pain and self-compassion
I have talked about our need for self-compassion from time to time and how I had basically none for years. You can’t have compassion when
Chronic illness: purpose in life
I wrote a post about our sense of self with illness and your feeling of having a purpose is part of that. I wish this
Pacing tips for chronic illness
I wrote a few articles on this topic recently: Enhancing our pacing game Chronic illness and the art of pacing Pacing is exceptionally hard in
