Mindful Mondays: How to Sleep Staring at the ceiling through the darkness of my room. Although the clock is silent, I can still feel the restless minutes pass by as I struggle to fall asleep. My covers hurt. My covers are hot. Why are the covers so heavy? Why does this bed feel lumpy tonight?… Continue reading Mindful Mondays: How to Sleep
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
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
Mindful Mondays: Grounding Your Anxiety with 5-4-3-2-1 technique Having a panic attack is one of the worst feelings in the world. Feeling that all the air has been sucked out of the room, your head begins to spin, your vision blurs, your palms become sweaty and the hair on the back of your neck stands… Continue reading Mindful Mondays: Grounding Your Anxiety (the 5-4-3-2-1 technique)
Mindful Mondays: 5 Tips to Practicing Patience with Chronic Pain It is Sunday morning. I am sitting on the couch with my giant mug of coffee & I am starting my favorite part of the week.. writing the post for Mindful Monday. But…. I have to be honest. I am not feeling very mindful today.Here is… Continue reading Mindful Mondays: 5 Tips to Practice Patience with Chronic Pain
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
The Invisible Warrior 