My Keys to Happiness: Faith + Laughter #HAWMC
Today, I’m answering the second prompt in WEGO’s Health Activist Writers Month Challenge: Key to Happiness: What do you think
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Faith
5 Reasons People Abandon a Sick Friend
In October 2008, at the age of 24, I was diagnosed and hospitalized for myasthenia gravis, MG, a neuromuscular autoimmune
Read moreMindfulness: Making Time for Emotional and Spiritual Fulfillment
Reality Bites was on TV the other night. I haven’t seen it since 1994. At one point, Wynona Ryder’s character, Leilana,
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Resilience: My Family’s Autoimmune/Cancer/Bipolar Journey as Remembered Through Four Pacquiao Fights (from The Huffington Post)
Over the weekend, I had my second Huffington Post article published. You can read it here. I’m very excited about this
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5 Lessons I Learned from Boxing & Pacquiao on Resilience & Surviving Illness
I’m really excited for tonight’s Paperview Fight, Pacquiao vs. Algieri. People are always surprised to find out that I’m
Read moreThat’s What Friends Are For
The past few days have been stressful for me; I’ve been fighting a psoriasis flare up and depression. As Fashionably ill
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The Church, Depression, & Mental Illness: 3 Myths That Need To Go
This blog post is hard for me to write but I must write it for three reasons: First, many Americans
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Just Between You And Me
I wasn’t feeling well today. (This after a very productive Monday and a fabulous Sunday, which I’ll tell you more
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Stronger Together: 2 Lessons on Community from Chemo & The Twilight Zone
Being sick can be lonely. On top of pain, fatigue, and the mental toll, people can multiply our stress. I
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Top 10 Myasthenia Gravis Articles
June is Myasthenia Gravis (MG) Awareness Month. I’ve been living with MG for six years–I was diagnosed at the age
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