By now you’ve met Sarah & Lauren, Charity & Kelly, and Nicole & Sandra. All are strong, driven, amazing women who also happen to cope with an illness. Like you, and me, they have ups and downs, they also have some incredible insights that have been included in Chronic Resilience.…
THANK YOU to everyone that submitted an essay for our Chronic Resilience Essay Contest! You have some amazing, supportive, inspiring people in your lives and we were absolutely touch by your tributes to them! Contest submissions ended July 26th and we have selected our 3 winners!! 1st Place Grand Prize…
At New Years, or after a particularly glutinous meal, everyone says they want to “get healthy.” But what does that mean? Get healthy isn’t a good goal to have. At all. Becoming healthy is going to require you to do things you do not want to do. You will need…
Over the last few weeks I’ve been introducing you to the phenomenal women featured in Chronic Resilience. If you haven’t read about Sarah and Lauren or Charity and Kelly, pop back over to their posts, but first meet Nicole (chapter 6) and Sandra (chapter 8). Nicole Lemelle Becoming diagnosed with…
I am now in kidney failure. I found out last Thursday, the same day Chronic Resilience was officially released. Life is wonderfully ironic. It is weird to type that word. Failure. It doesn’t feel like failure; it feels like my kidney worked really hard for more than 34 years and…
I was originally going to call this post, “Find Your Own Miracle.” But then I sat dumbfounded staring at the screen trying to figure out exactly what I meant. My health, at this point, is not trending toward the miraculous. It is headed for the predicted. In my case that…
Chronic Resilience is born, and I am hitting the road…the west coast road. We’ve got fabulous events planned in San Diego, Sacramento, Portland, Seattle and Spokane. If you live near one of these cities, I would love to meet you. I’ll be talking about how Chronic Resilience came to be,…
I can’t believe we are just days away from the official release of Chronic Resilience. It is quite a wonderful whirlwind. On Tuesday, I was doing an interview over the phone and I was asked a very important question, “What do you want readers to get from Chronic Resilience?” It…
Chronic Resilience is filled with stories from 9 amazing women. They are all coping with the same stresses that you and I do. They are also strong, resilient and completely inspiring. I’ve been introducing them here on the blog. Last week you met Sarah and Lauren. Today I’d like to…
I have always felt like stressful situations come in groups. It’s not just that you’re having a flare-up, it’s that it’s happening just when your work project is due. As things pile on, it is easy to get caught in a cycle of chronic stress. Especially with illness, which is…