Top 29 Mental Health Apps: Recommended by Users With Lived Experience
Hi. I’m back or I’ll just say I’m here. I took a five month break from blogging and plenty of
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3 Ways To Help Loved Ones With Parkinson’s Disease
Three Ways to Help Loved Ones With Parkinson’s Disease While it’s well-known and accepted that Parkinson’s disease is an incredibly
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Grieving The Loss of a Reader
On Christmas day, one of my longtime readers, “M,” passed away. M was very active on Fashionably ill’s Facebook page
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3 Tips on Surviving the Holidays from Chronic Christmas Author, Lene Andersen
Today, I am interviewing Lene Andersen, author of Chronic Christmas: Surviving the Holidays with a Chronic Illness (paperback and kindle
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5 Tips for Celebrating a Holiday Alone (UDPATED)
In time for Thanksgiving, I’m posting an update of my popular 2013 article, “3 Tips on Celebrating a Holiday Alone.” What
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Why People With Invisible & Chronic Illnesses Deserve Academy Awards
Last week I had a day where I was really off my A-game at work. The night before I woke
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3 Lessons on Loving a Sick Person From a 4-Year Old
(Repost) Last weekend I was exhausted. After a 40-hr work week, it was hard to find my mojo. Lying in
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Where Is Your “Happy Place”?
I have been feeling much better the past three weeks. In my last blog post, “The Loneliness of Chronic Illnesses
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The Loneliness of Living with Chronic Illnesses & Pain
(UPDATE: The TV show I discuss in paragraph 2 aired its finale since I wrote this. The writers resolved the
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How Chester Bennington’s Music Helped Me Survive Depression, Abuse, & Chronic Pain
Today, we have a guest post from the always fierce Kirsten Schultz. (Schultz previously wrote a guest post for Fashionably ill,
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