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Living with an autoimmune disease or chronic illness can be challenging, to say the least. Some days (or weeks, or if you're lucky, months) are good, but many are a battle. To survive, we live in a Continue Reading
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My Hope For You
As I sat here wondering what I could write about to inspire "hope" and make a world full of pain, discourse, and negativity feel "hopeful," I struggled with "embracing the suck" vs. keeping the Continue Reading
Embrace the Suck
When Having Gratitude Feels Just Too Damn HardI’m going to let you in on a little secret ... I’m not always as positive and accepting as my fellow Autoimmune Sisters when it comes to living with a Continue Reading
From Guilt to Gratitude: A Mother’s Guide
Where My Story StartsWhen I was first dealing with my autoimmune symptoms, the swelling and severe pain in my foot, the pain, pressure and sensitivity to light in my eyes, the anxiety, the thyroid Continue Reading
Dear Pain: (I’m Grateful For You)
A version of this post was first published on Chronically KristinI could start out this letter to you by just throwing a couple middle fingers in the air. I could do that, and on a superficial Continue Reading
Your Gratitude Practice, Using All Your Senses (Part 2)
In this second series of my five senses articles, I explore how using your five senses can refresh your gratitude practice.The clinical definition of gratitude is to appreciate what is valuable Continue Reading
Heat Tolerance & Autoimmune Diseases
Summertime & the livin' is.... HOT! Depending on where you are in the world, it's starting to get pretty hot and humid outside. While it's gorgeous to look at and brings with it fun activities, if Continue Reading
Day Tripping: This Summer’s Vacation Solution
If you’re like most people, after three or more months of quarantine/homeschooling/working from home with all your people under the same roof, you’re probably in desperate need of a change of scenery. Continue Reading
It Takes a Village
The African proverb, “It takes a village” usually applies to childrearing, but the same can be said about living -- and thriving -- with an autoimmune disease. Having a “tribe” or community of Continue Reading
