Category: Monday Blog
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Life Changing Career Shifts for Women
When the Thomson Reuters Foundation collaborated with the Rockefeller Foundation to poll women at work in G20 economies about the challenges women face in the workforce, they found that the issues women are most concerned about are work-life balance, equal pay, harassment, career opportunities, and the choice between children and career. During the global coronavirus pandemic, […]
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5 Ways to Reset Mind and Spirit
Self-Care Kit: Keep a box full of your favourite things that make you feel good. It could be photos, books, your favourite recipe, essential oils, candles, even chocolate! Whatever you want. This is about cosy comfort. Media/Digital Detox: Spend an entire day unplugged from your phone, computer, laptop and T.V. Think of something or somewhere […]
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You Can Still Do Everything Right (And Guess What?) Still Be Sick
Hello, my intrepid warriors! I’m back for another raw, yet inspiring post. I know many of you out there have been sick for years. Some of you darlings have been struggling your entire life with your autoimmune disorders and chronic pain (I don’t know how you do it!), while the rest of us run the […]
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Emotional Abuse
Emotional abuse can be just as exhausting and insidious as physical abuse. It’s also just as damaging. Can lead to depression and anxiety. It can lead you to be unable to stand conflict. Doing anything and everything to avoid it, to the point where it becomes unreasonable and dangerous. Your pendulum swings from indecisiveness to […]
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Being Told to Give Up If you follow me on Twitter you’ve learned that I found a new pain management doctor. Not because my previous one was horrid (I know you can read a lot of horror stories on various blogs) but because our vision was going in different directions. So, I found a new […]
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Chronic Illness: Oh, I hope you feel better soon.
We live in a world where being polite is reflective of manners. Someone sneezes, we say “God bless you,” whether we’re Christian or Atheist. It’s not an actual blessing, as Pope Gregory the Great uttered it during bubonic plague epidemic of the sixth century. [https://people.howstuffworks.com/sneezing.htm] (Just figured I’d throw some trivia in there for you. […]
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Hellloooo!
Hello again, blogging-world. Miss me? I missed you. But I needed to take some time off for self-care. It’s been frustrating, to say the least. I think we can all agree, that when you suffer with more than one chronic illness, things can get a little hairy from time to time. Your body lets you […]
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POTS Syndrome
POTS syndrome is also known as postural orthostatic tachycardia. It is one of a group of disorders which have orthostatic tolerance (OI) as their primary symptom. Orthostatic intolerance describes a condition in which an excessively reduced volume of blood returns to the heart after an individual stands up from a lying down position, fainting. [https://www.inlifehealthcare.com] […]
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The Problem With Comorbities
It all began with one chronic illness- or did it? At times, I wonder how this all began for me. I was never the poster child for health, but neither was I on the sidelines of life as much as I am now. I think if not all of us with multiple chronic conditions, then […]
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Relationship Between Chronic Illness and Assault
A personal experience #MeToo I have done a lot of reading about how stress can affect the immune system and how it can have a pretty hefty hand in our over-all health. There are even some doctors who believe that stress is a major contributing factor in autoimmune disorders. This is not to imply a […]