This Is My Fatigue From Chronic Illness

“We need to grieve the ones we’ve lost—not to sustain our connection to suffering, but to sustain our connection to love.” ~Jennifer Williamson

Dangerous Minds. Michelle Pfeiffer played a teacher sent to one of the roughest areas with the highest dropout rates. ADVERTISEMENT While she received an excellent education and was a good teacher, she quickly had to develop her social intelligence to handle one of the roughest school systems in the country.

How do I want to be remembered? Tasha Eurich, behavioral psychologist and author of , a book about self-awareness, says this will help leaders create a positive culture around that answer.Gaining self-awareness helps leaders become more intentional about their role in developing culture. No one is saying that all employees will think you’re the best boss in history, but leaders who use their emotional intelligence to monitor themselves are better equipped to help their companies make the transition with their culture not only intact but thriving.Being socially aware requires empathy, or the ability to understand the perspective of others.

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Vacation time means exploring new places, meeting new people, and indulging in some of their favourite foods. The anticipation of all these great experiences can make the excitement build up inside before they even start packing. Travelling to a destination with delicious cuisine can be a fun and rewarding experience for the whole family. You’ll get to explore a new place while indulging in some of the best food the country has to offer. Here are six reasons why you should try it!

When travelling to a new place, one of the best ways to experience everything the city, nature, or town has to offer is by getting out and exploring. There are endless possibilities when it comes to outdoor activities, so we’ve compiled a list of our top five picks that will get your heart racing and help you explore all that your new destination has to offer!

study that couples who have learned how to communicate during a conflict will have a long-lasting relationship. They are committed to talking things through instead of running away or fighting back. These couples value communication and make it work.If you’re not talking to your partner about money issues, it will cost you.

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Maria Marrocco is one of the coaches that we found this month and we did a little interview with her. She impressed us with her holistic approach when it comes to improving people’s health. Her approach is not just about fitness and nutrition, but also, it offers relaxation techniques and breathing exercises to release stress […]

What type of consumer are you? Are you the type who is always looking for the best deal? What if you can apply the same cost cutting mentality on the electricity bill? And also, make it more friendly for the environment? Suppose you live in Australia and live in a deregulated energy market, like Victoria. […]

sensitive to situations that might cause stress. Even the idea of a stressful experience can trigger an introvert, and they’ll be anxious before it even begins.Stress affects your life whether you’re an introvert or extrovert, so you’re not alone either way. However, introverted people handle many situations differently because their minds are more prone to burnout and overwhelm.

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What we ultimately do comes out of who we believe we are.A good friend of mine, who graduated with honors from Cal Berkley several years ago, is now the co-founder and CEO of a successful start-up in Silicon Valley. Throughout grade school she struggled with reading and writing disabilities. She spent kindergarten all the way through 12th grade in English ESE classes.

Those experiences were brutal.  Each of them, naturally, knocked us down and off course for a period of time.  But once we accepted the truth, by giving up our innocent ideals and letting go of the way things used to be, we pressed forward, stronger, and with a greater understanding and respect for life.Getting to the right state of mind—one that actually allowed us to move forward with our lives—required mindful practice.  Because when we were initially faced with each one of those brutal experiences—when we were standing at the forefront of another rocky crossroads in our lives—you better believe our minds were spinning with negative emotions.  We had to learn to catch ourselves in that negative state of emotional unrest, and then consciously calm our minds, so we could think straight, and make the best decisions possible with the hand we’d been dealt.The simplest way of doing this?Proactive daily reminders.It’s all about keeping the right thoughts at the top of your mind every day, so they’re readily available on those inevitable days when you need them most.  For us, that meant sitting down quietly with ourselves every morning and reflecting on precisely what we needed to remember.  We used quotes (many of which are tiny excerpts from our books) like the ones below to do just that.  Some people call them affirmations, or mantras, or prayers, or convictions, but in any case these daily reminders kept us on track by keeping calm, peaceful, productive thoughts and perspectives at the top of our minds, even when life got utterly chaotic.We ultimately learned that peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard realities to deal with—peace means to be in the midst of all those things and

Don’t be afraid.Have faith.Trust the journey.Don’t let your expectations of how life “should be” blind you to the beauty of the life you’re living.And of course, if you’re struggling with trusting the journey and taming your expectations right now, know that you are not alone. Many of us are here with you, working hard to let go, find more presence and acceptance, and get our thinking back on track.

you’re human, and human beings are imperfect creatures that make misjudgments constantly. We get caught up in our own heads, and literally don’t know our lives to be any better than the few things that aren’t going our way. And as our minds subconsciously dwell on these things, we try to distract ourselves to numb the tension we feel.

glanced at her masterpiece one last time, and walked out the door into the moonlight. And as she walked, she thought, and then she walked some more.While she was walking, she didn’t notice the clouds and the stars in the sky who were trying to signal her, because she was preoccupied with an important decision she had to make. She had to choose one thing to do out of all the possibilities in the world.

Have you ever wondered where your resiliency comes from? Do you get a certain amount of it when you’re born, and when you run out, it’s game over? Or, is resiliency something that you can build and nurture?You probably know people who get knocked down and get back up again and again with seemingly no effort. You might wonder: how do they do it? But then, maybe you cross paths with them later in life, and they don’t have any more “get up and go” left.

My mother’s medical neglect of me as a child inhibits my ability to communicate my current physical pain, and therefore leads to not asking for help when I need to heal.

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Anxiety and Depression Association of America, there’s an estimated 40 million adults in this country that suffer from some anxiety disorder. Anxiety can affect how you think take care of your home, work, relationships, and overall well-being. It’s time to understand this condition and bring things to the forefront so that more people get the help they need.When anxiety is persistent, it becomes chronic.

more than 40 million adult Americans and results from irrational and unrealistic threats.Let’s dive deeper into the difference between stress and anxiety. We’ll explain how to tell apart one from the other, exploring the symptoms and triggers, and offering practical advice about seeking professional help to deal with either.Stress and anxiety both have a wide range of psychological, physiological, and physical symptoms.

Research has shown that cortisol levels already surge in the morning for the first 30 – 45 minutes after waking. This is known as Cortisol Awakening Response (CAR) and may increase morning anxiety.The common demands of life, like taking care of your family, accomplishing a huge workload, paying the bills, and preparing for the future, are all stressors.

Fear is a strong biological response to imminent danger. Anxiety is marked by apprehension and worry over things that may or may not occur. Both emotions can feel the same, but there are some important differences to note.To fully understand the difference between fear and anxiety separately, you must review their similarities and their differences.

strong leaders, everything crumbles. Leaders can create structure and organization and directly contribute to productivity.Good leaders inspire teams to thrive and ultimately affect a company’s bottom line. Strong entrepreneurial leaders manage remote teams in a way that leads to the growth of that entrepreneur’s business.

Since sleep issues and sleep apnea are often significant contributing factors in depression and anxiety, it’s important that this is considered if you live with these conditions. It’s difficult (at best) to overcome these issues in your life if you feel tired almost all of the time, as I do.

My dear friend Susan (aka: SARK) calls me a professional TV watcher.

best family vacations and what made them great for everyone. The results may surprise you — and feed some vacation ideas for spring or summer break.What is your family’s favorite vacation spot? Share your stories in the Comments section below.“Our best vacation ever was renting a cottage in Lubec, Maine. We hiked the trails, fished for mackerel, and ate blueberry pie at a July 4th church fundraiser.

For the chronic illness patient, seeing doctors is like dating. With each new doctor we see, we wonder if they could be “the one” – the one who makes us feel seen and understood, the one who knows our mysteries and has the key to unlock the door that stands between us and a “normal” life. We dare to hope that they are the knight in shining armor who appears suddenly, sweeps us off our feet and rides away with us into the sunset of good health.

“When it comes to the future, I mean it’s good to be hopeful, but you don’t even need to be hopeful. You just need to be curious and let that curiosity drive you into wanting to see what happens next.”

As the crush of infections from the Omicron variant pushes the U.S. closer to population immunity, many health officials and politicians have begun using the term “endemic” as a synonym for some semblance of normalcy. But as media outlets churn out article after article about “learning to live with COVID-19,” one segment of the country that has felt ignored from the start of the pandemic has once again been left out of the conversation.

When I was a kid, I developed my own ways to cope with the health difficulties I was facing without knowing that’s what I was doing. These coping mechanisms were often seen by adults as funny quirks and silliness, but they were never really challenged or discouraged until I got older. For example, to cope with physical symptoms, I’d hang upside down, sit and lay down in strange positions, and insist on sitting when expected to stand for too long. And to cope with mental/emotional symptoms, I’d find isolated places to hide both indoors and outdoors, go for long walks, and always kept a notebook on me for doodling and writing. If I was unable to practice my coping mechanisms when I needed them, it would cause me a lot of distress and sometimes cause me to be noticeably ill.

The grief of chronic illness extends beyond grief over the loss of our health. We mourn the loss of our place in the world.

I remember attending my first counseling session after my stoma surgery and being told they couldn’t provide the right form of counseling via the NHS because I needed a form of grief counseling.

I have had chronic pain for 15 years. I was 13 when it started. In particular the past five, almost six years now I’ve had level 10 pain this whole time. I have full body pain and it never quits. I’ve bed bound for 10 years.

I know that if I tell people I’m glad I got sick, they will think I’m putting a positive spin on things. Of course, I grieved the life I had before, and everything that went with it. But going through a long and complex illness had led to an awakening of sorts. Suddenly, you are removed from a lot of the trials and tribulations of modern life. You have time to reflect on the system you were part of and the path you happened to be on, and what led you there. For perhaps the first time in your life, you have the space to get to know yourself inside and out. You question things. Were you happy? What does happiness look like for you? What kind of person do you want to be? What is your purpose in life? I’ve shed a lot of ideas I had about myself and about life in general, and for these revelations, I am extremely grateful. Let me explain what I’ve learned:

I’m used to living with mental illness, as I first started experiencing depression at 12 years old. As I’ve grown older, I’ve learned to live with my multiple mental illnesses (anxiety disorders, borderline personality disorder, unspecified bipolar disorder, an eating disorder, and depression). I’ve battled my mind for years but was thankful to not be physically ill.

It’s really shit when you have days, weeks, months when you don’t want to exist. It’s even more shit when you feel unable to talk about that feeling, for fear of the panic and upset that it might cause for those close to you or professionals you speak to. Society has taught us that feeling suicidal is irrational, frantic, urgent, scary. Sometimes it is all of those things, but often it’s fleeting thoughts, feelings of wanting to “disappear,” or having no feelings at all. It can be slow and passive and not look like wanting to hurt yourself or making a plan to. When I first had thoughts about finding it too hard to live with my chronic illnesses, I think I scared myself. I felt deeply guilty and people’s minimizations of my illnesses popped into my head.

When we talk about trauma, we may tend to think of it as being caused by a single terrible event, such as an accident or an incident in which we felt we were in danger. However, this way of thinking may make it easy for us to forget about the other things in our lives that cause us distress and can leave us dealing with the emotional aftermath of our trauma for years to come. These other events include losing a loved one, losing a home or belongings, and of course, becoming ill with a chronic illness.

I have asked myself many times, “Am I really this sick?” I have been on my medical journey for over a decade.  I have been put through test after test and multiple medication trials trying to find answers. How did this happen to me? How did I get like this? I may never know.

by Jennie Shulkin, J.D. and Heather Martarella, Psy.D.

Before you judge me, walk a minute in my shoes.

Before my identity was intrinsically intertwined with my (sometimes visible) invisible illness, I identified first and foremost as a performer and singer. I started at a very young age and it became my dream to perform as my career. Long story short, my dream is in the process of coming true after working hard for many years through university and postgraduate study.