One of the biggest complaints I hear from those with chronic illness is that it is an Invisible Disease. Whatever it is for you: Lupus, thyroid disease, chronic pain, migraines, or peri menopause, the fact that people are only concerned with what they see can leave us with the feeling that others either don’t believe […]
Read the rest of this entry »Devotional tells how to…Just Choose Joy
As I talked about last week, I am going through a 21 day devotional on depression in which I found some interesting tidbits. As promised, I will share what she suggests and how it is working for me. Some of the things she suggests to do are things I’ve done in the past, but to […]
Read the rest of this entry »Just Choose Joy?
Do you struggle with depression or anxiety or chronic illness? Do your friends and family tell you to just choose to be happy? Does that work for you? Me either. But here’s something I found. One of the criticisms I, and many chronic illness sufferers, have with the “Just Choose Joy” movement is that they […]
Read the rest of this entry »I knew I was in trouble when I lost my sense of humor
I’ve always been a clown. I love making people laugh, especially myself. The more struggles life threw at me the more humorously I saw things. Until one day when I just couldn’t find anything funny to say. So I just didn’t post that day on Facebook…or the next day, or the next day, or the […]
Read the rest of this entry »Discovery: Spiritual Deficiency
As I was writing my blog post for this week sharing some tips for living with chronic illness, I came to this topic. After last week’s post where I confessed my struggle with depression, I felt this topic needed to be a post of its own. Here’s why. We can plan all we like, we can buy things to help us […]
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