I recently had the pleasure of talking with the insightful Joan Friedlander, author of Business from Bed: The 6 Step Plan to Get Yourself Working Again After a Health Crisis. She has written a wonderful guide to creating a business or career that is in alignment with your values and…
On our flight back from the last book tour stop in Spokane, Phillip and I made an exhaustive list of things we wanted to get done before the transplant. It is unique that we will both be in surgery, and we wanted to have our home and lives a well…
The time came last week for me to begin temporarily scaling back. This is the most important thing you can do to preserve and honor your health when you’re hitting a rough patch or going through a flare-up. This is also the hardest thing for driven, goal oriented individuals like…
I met a woman a few months ago who’d had knee replacement surgery. She said that she tried everything under the sun to avoid surgery – all of the woo-woo and not-so-woo-woo stuff. She finally relented to the operation when she could not longer walk. Before she spoke they showed…
Illness requires us to let go of a lot of things. I sometimes think it’s a spiritual quest toward non-attachment. Priorities become clearer as we need to clear our plates to allow for healing. I had to let go of two things today. I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow where…
Getting diagnosed with anything is tough. There are things to learn, appointments to attend, tests to have done, medications to start, family to inform, insurance to deal with and of course, a TON of emotions that can be all over the place. I’ve done getting a new prognosis in two…
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…
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…
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…
It is easy to become attached . Too easy. Online, in stores and everywhere in-between it is the outcome that sells. Here are three headlines from Health.com today: Get Toned in Half the Time Think Yourself Healthy! How to Treat (and Avoid!) Summer Skin Problems It’s an article’s, or product’s,…