This is the day to turn in your Chronic Resilience essay for our contest!! Submissions should be e-mailed to contest@chronicresilience.com. For contest prizes and rules, visit: https://chronicresilience.com/essay-contest/ I’m kicking things off by answering the contest topic myself today… Who am I chronically resilient for? One cold January evening in 1999…
Time to get writing! Tomorrow, Friday, July 26th is the last day to submit an essay for the Chronic Resilience essay contest. The topic is: Who are you chronically resilient for? Top prize is $250 and two additional essays will be honored with spa gift baskets full of self-pampering goodies.…
I wanted Chronic Resilience to be representative of a wide range of experiences, so I set out to find a group of resilient women to share their tips, tricks and insights from living with challenging health conditions. Each chapter in the book contains a conversation with a woman who is…
Have you heard the myth that it takes 21 days (just 3 weeks) to develop a new habit? It would be great if that were true. But, unfortunately, it isn’t. Not even a little bit. It is mainly based on experiential, non-scientific evidence (http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/form-a-habit1.htm), and according to my life, the…
The comedy Evan Almighty seems an unusual place to find profound wisdom, but, alas, it is there. If you haven’t seen this movie from 2007, it is a lighthearted family-friendly good time. The movie follows a supporting character from the first film Bruce Almighty with Jim Carrey. Evan, played by…
Back in June of 2012 I was one month away from the manuscript due date. I asked Phillip to read the first chapter of Chronic Resilience. As most writers do, I was struggling to know if things sounded cohesive and intriguing. He agreed and spent a few hours poring over…
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,…
We had a ton of fun making the Chronic Resilience book trailer. It hatched as an idea somewhere in my mind to put the book’s message on screen to demonstrate that even with illness life can be something really special. I wrote three scripts. Version one was too deep.…
Stress is the tension between reality and what we imagine reality should be. If you want to make stress really intense I’ve got some suggestions: Complain to all of your friends. Completely obsess over every detail. Replay the crappy stuff over and over again. Get hundreds of opinions about what…
There are lots of things to do when you’re coping with an illness: rest, drink green juice, find a good doctor, get support, reduce stress,… The list could go on for days. As important, if not more, are the things you should not do when you’re sick. These are the…