All you need is love … at least according to The Beatles and their hit song of the same name. In the autoimmune world, we need more than love to survive, but self-love as medicine may just be the Continue Reading
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A Life Changing Mindset Shift: Moving From Lack To Abundance
When it comes to living a happy life in general, but especially with a chronic illness, it is crucial to focus on your mindset. Many people go through their days letting life happen to them. Allowing Continue Reading
Embrace the Suck
When Having Gratitude Feels Just Too Damn Hard I’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 Starts When 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
4 Ways to Increase Happiness – What Science Says
There are so many things that we think will make us happy. Things like more money, a good job, awesome stuff, true love, and a perfect and healthy body. I know I’ve done this plenty. “I’ll be happy Continue Reading
Tips to Keep Your Gratitude Practice Going
Back when 2020 began, I wrote an article for you ladies called “Here's to a New Decade, New You, New Journey!” We were excited for 2020 to start, may have been starting new positive practices, and Continue Reading
Finding Gratitude: The Naptime Yogi
I've always loved yoga. Even in my college days, I took it as an elective. Yeah, not just because of the easy A factor, but I truly enjoyed learning about the practice and enjoyed what it did for my Continue Reading
Dear Pain: (I’m Grateful For You)
A version of this post was first published on Chronically Kristin I 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
7 Practices to Cultivate More Gratitude + Joy
Gratitude is such an important and critical component to include in everyone's life. Gratitude allows us to grow as people, stay grounded, and also cultivate more happiness in our lives. However, many Continue Reading
