Paleo. Keto. Vegan. Vegetarian. Mediterranean. Whole 30. DASH. AIP. SCD. Low-FODMAP. Atkins. South Beach. Weight Watchers. NutriSystem. Jennie Craig … The list of popular diets goes on and on. Each Continue Reading
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K.I.S.S. Your Way to a More Simplified Autoimmune Life
Simplify: It’s our theme this month here at Autoimmune Sisters. By definition, the word means to make something easier or to diminish in scope and complexity. As a recovering perfectionist and chronic Continue Reading
The Three Letters That Inspire Hope
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
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
Looking Inward and Onward
What happened to my habits, routines, and boring life? I want it back. Just when things seem to be going smoothly, I hit a bump in the road. Ouch, an autoimmune flare up. It shakes me from an idle 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
Plant-Based Approach to Autoimmune
I believe in 3 different ways of healing: mind, body, & soul: today we'll be focusing in the body. Trying to find the link between plant-based and autoimmune, I couldn’t help to think 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
