One of the most challenging things about life with chronic illness is brain fog. You have zero focus and motivation. You find yourself reading the same sentence over and over again but still can’t make sense of it or retain the information. Brain fog also creates lots of anxiety because it becomes so easy to …
How to stop scaring yourself.
One of the biggest contributors to fear and anxiety is uncertainty and the unknown and when chronic illness enters your life, it brings both of those issues in full force. When all of the things you counted on and took for granted like energy, health and a fully functioning body are no longer under your …
What are you more afraid of: Anger or grief?
One of the things that we are all really good at is repressing emotions. You know, stuffing them down? Using food or alcohol to numb them and make them go away and of course, the problem with doing that is that you then have to deal with the consequences of all that numbing behaviour which …
How to get unstuck from the overwhelm of chronic illness.
There is no doubt about it, living with chronic illness can be overwhelming in so many ways. Not just with managing symptoms including emotional and psychological ones such as: Anxiety, depression and apathy. Chronic illness can change your life, your relationships and your ability to work, travel and earn. I see so many people getting …
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