Mindful Monday: Learning Acceptance in Chronic Pain Lately I have been listening and reading a lot about acceptance. I’ve been trying to relate it to my diagnosis and the chronic pain that I experience everyday. This weekend I dove a little deeper into the topic of acceptance, as I just couldn’t wrap my head around… Continue reading Mindful Mondays: Learning Acceptance in Chronic Pain
Mindful Mondays: My 7 Favorite Mindfulness Quotes I don’t know about you, but I love a good quote. For me writing is magic and words come together to create a new reality. A good quote can sometimes make the impossible happen. We see them EVERYWHERE! They are on clothing, on the bumpers of cars, marketing… Continue reading Mindful Mondays: My 7 Favorite Mindfulness Quotes
I Am A Bad Patient. The Fear of Advocating I am 36 years old. A Licensed Clinical Social Worker. An advocate. A friend who loves laughter. A writer. A traveler. An animal lover. A sister. A daughter. A fierce woman. An Educator. I am also a patient with chronic excruciating pain. I live with a… Continue reading I Am A Bad Patient
Mindful Mondays: The Painful Beauty of Impermanence The scariest thing about living with a progressive neurological disease isn’t the pain that I am in today. It is the pain that I fear I will be in tomorrow or the next day. Worrying about the future goes hand and hand with chronic illness. Will I be well… Continue reading Mindful Mondays: The Painful Beauty of Impermanence
How to show your body compassion during your difficult moments of pain. Changing the narrative that we tell ourselves.
Mindful Mondays: The Angry Side of Pain I tend to get irritable when I am in significant pain. Everything bothers me as I become hypersensitive to the environment around me. I am generally a very laid back person and I don’t often get my feathers ruffled. I tend to let things go and not worry about… Continue reading Mindful Mondays: The Angry side of Pain
This past week has been quite a whirlwind for me. I have noticed that everyday it gets harder and harder to get up and get going in the morning. I found myself repeatedly late for work because I was turning my alarm off in my sleep or when I was up, I just couldn’t slide into… Continue reading Mindful Monday: Finding Balance with Stress
Chances are if you follow my blog you may struggle with some type of chronic pain disorder (or you are an awesome supportive friend!). In the past few years as I have been dealing with my own painful diagnosis, I have found that most people in my life have some sort of relationship with chronic… Continue reading Mindful Mondays: Minding the Pain
I am a social worker. Not only as my job, a way to make money and put food on the table but also as a person. It has been a part of my identity for the last decade. The passion that I have for making a difference in those lives around me is a fire that… Continue reading Hear Our Voice: How to Advocate for Your Beliefs From Your Couch
In todays world we are constantly connected and plugged in to EVERYTHING that is happening around us. We don’t miss a hot news topic, a funny video, an honest meme or work email. Many of us walk around ALL DAY with our phones on our body. We start our days by instinctually checking the weather… Continue reading Mindful Mondays: Unplug to Reconnect
The Invisible Warrior 