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Chronic illness: The problem

May 7, 2019 Nikki

I think we all know suffering is inevitable. It is actually a function of being human. We all suffer in different ways. It is so

Chronic illness: Things I learned and things I know

April 22, 2019 Nikki

I have been chronically more than half my life not counting the joint hypermobility pain as a child. And the older I get the more

Chronic illness: I had the talk

April 20, 2019 Nikki

You know my common-law spouse has been with me 22 years. And that means he was there for my fibromyalgia diagnosis. For the migraines. When

Disability: see me smiling?

April 18, 2019 Nikki

How A Trump Proposal Could Reduce ‘Happy’ Disabled People A new policy proposal by the Trump administration calls for the surveillance of disabled people’s social

What lessons chronic pain has taught me

April 13, 2019 Nikki

So I have learned a lot of painful lessons from pain, the hard way, more than once, because that is how I roll. Here are

Chronic pain: Achiever fever

April 11, 2019 Nikki

The Social was talking to the author of Achiever Fever a week or so ago( here is a review of the book I found if you

Spring cleaning

March 28, 2019 Nikki

You know I haven’t been able to really clean much at all with this vestibular disorder along with the relentless migraines and fibromyalgia. And I

World Poetry day: It took

March 21, 2019 Nikki

This is an older poem I wrote and I now present it to you for World Poetry Day. I am no poet but I do

Chronic illness rebuilding and remaking ourselves

Reflection: eternal return of the same

March 5, 2019 Nikki

The thing about chronic illness is that it is unpredictable. We can go from managing, coping, and modestly function to… not. And after these rough

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

February 25, 2019 Nikki

A New Psychological Treatment for Chronic Pain Newer psychological approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) are guided by the premise that we cannot