Chronic illness takes its toll in so many ways and requires different approaches to care. It is comfortable with our busy lives not to recognize self-compassion as important, and oftentimes to resist it. This being a result of the “scarcity” [...]
The trials and tribulations of chronically ill people may result in couragous, resilient, creative people with, and desire to help others. However, inevitably having to deal with all the medical procedures, uncertainty, and instability, can give a person many emotional [...]
Growing up, I was lucky to have two amazing role models. It was by their example that I learned how to reinvent myself after my chronic illness diagnosis. When my dad was ten years old, his father became chronically ill. [...]
This is my story on loving someone with Prader Willi Syndrome, my younger brother. I was living in Los Angeles at the time when I found out I was going to have yet another sibling. I was around twelve years [...]
Crohn’s disease and anxiety are not mutually exclusive; in fact, it’s proof that the mind and body work together and are affected together as a whole. Growing up, my mother was the picture of perfect physical and mental health. Her [...]