6 Tips: How To Get Stuff Done When You Are Depressed
I’ve been depressed the past few days. There are many difficult aspects to depression and one of them is
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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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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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#AncientAbledProverbs: 45 Things NOT To Say to People with Disabilities
So the fabulous @HijaDe2Madre started this twitter hashtag that went viral called #AncientAbledProverbs about things people with disabilities are tired
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How to Say No: 5 Tips To Help You
Lots of people send me tweets about my TEDx Talk (“How to Get Stuff Done When You Are Depressed). They
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3 Tips for 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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