How A Car Crash Changed Her Life: Cathy’s Story A Series of Interviews With Chronic Illness Patients, Uncensored and Raw Truths About Life With Chronic Illness. If you have a chronic illness, you know that each story is…
This Diagnosis Can Actually Hurt People With Chronic Illness A Somatic Symptom Disorder diagnosis can perpetuate stigma and lead to mislabeling patients living with chronic illness. If you have a chronic illness, at some point a doctor has…
What is CBT and Can it Help People Living With Chronic Illness? CBT is one of the most researched therapeutic modalities out there. I first learned but CBT or Cognitive Behavior Therapy, when I was in school getting…
Why Self Care is So Important When You Live With a Chronic Illness When we don’t get our needs met, we can’t thrive. I had never really learned what self care was, except in the context of preventing…
Setting goals you’ll actually accomplish can seem daunting and pointless, but it doesn’t have to be. These tips can get you started down the road to successful goal setting so that you can get back to living a fulfilling…
3 Ways To Manage Difficult Symptoms Better Disease symptoms can either make you miserable, or teach you something. When you choose the latter, you begin to take control of your illness. When my doctor said ‘Lupus’, I thought ‘oh…
Why Stress Management Matters When You Have A Chronic Illness When we’re stressed, it lays the foundation for chronic illness to flourish. I was in my…
How To Prepare For A Disaster When You Have A Chronic Illness When natural disasters, like hurricanes, happen it can reduce access to healthcare, medication and much needed support. [Tweet “When we live in Florida or other states affected…
7 Stages of grief for chronic pain & illness If you have ever lost someone close to you, you might have learned about the 5 stages of Grief, made popular by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. Well Dr. Jennifer Martin, PsyD, wrote…
If you have a chronic illness, you know that the Florida summer heat can really do a number on your body. It can worsen fatigue, make you feel dizzy, nauseous and even cause skin rashes that are hard to…