My home life is bad. Really bad and has been for most of my life. The happiest times have been when I’ve lived far away from family. My innate conscious and deep spiritual roots have not allowed me to ignore the needs of generational caregiving crossing four generations and branching […]
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First of all, let me explain what I mean by the term mystical woo. I don’t belong to an abrahamic faith. I don’t exactly fit in a box either, but I suppose you could call me pagan and it would be technically accurate…kind of. However, I may be one of […]
Seems I am delving into some of the more difficult subjects lately. While I know what I’m about to approach is an important subject, this is not an easy thing for me to do. As I’ve said in past posts, my whole goal is for people not to feel so […]
Not all families handle having a member with chronic illness in the best of ways. Unfortunately, from what I’ve seen in support groups, most seem to end up with the individual already struggling to feel more like an outcast. This seems especially true when you’ve got a disorder that’s rare […]
This is something that, until recent events, I didn’t realize I struggled with. What Is Imposter Syndrome? Simply put, it’s an internal feeling of not being as skilled or accomplished as others perceive you to be. Instead of feeling good about compliments that are given, you feel as if you’re […]
Whether you’ve been struggling with a chronic illness or you’ve made the break from the bad situation… …more than likely, you just want a place you can talk about what you’re facing and feel normal again. What could be better than a place where other such people congregate? It sounds […]
Neurologist appointment today, and oh did I have questions for her. The *dead* feeling in my right butt cheek, and radiating all the way down to my toes is making me insane! I cannot get away from it, I want to crawl out of my own skin. And my arms, […]
I’ve been going through a rough spot recently. I just got informed that my ankle that has been giving me problems will have to be surgically redone and the previous implant has already been taken out after a car wreck dislodged it. I’ve been subluxing my elbow, which is a […]
The Irksome Thing About Being A Trauma Survivor… …is that it is surprisingly isolating. In an odd way it gives one some sense of what it is like to live in the closet in earlier years. We, as a culture, don’t even like to talk about trauma in an abstract […]
Most with chronic illness (and even those going through an acute issue) have all had that well-meaning person offer their suggestion that goes a bit like this: Have you tried talking with your body? It’s only trying to communicate with you. If you learned to talk to your body in […]