Healing from the Inside Out
// by Kerry Jeffery
When I first became chronically ill, I found myself apologising a lot. I apologised for crying and because I cried with most of the people I know, I spent a lot of time apologising. I apologised to my children because I felt awful that they were seeing me so sick and helpless. I apologised for …
Why you need to stop apologising for having chronic illness.Read More
// by Kerry Jeffery
When it comes to life with chronic illness, we can so often get stuck in a focus on the physical: The symptoms, the limitations, the supplements, the diet, the sleep, all of the different factors that go into making the most of your own unique health. So I loved the discussion that Joyce and I …
Interview with Joyce Millard: it’s more than a journey of physical healing.Read More
// by Kerry Jeffery
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 …
How to get unstuck from the overwhelm of chronic illness.Read More
// by Kerry Jeffery
Remission in medical usage is the absence of the activity of a disease within a patient who has chronic illness or disease. I have reached a place just over 2 years into my hashimoto’s/celiac/antiphospholipid syndrome that I am symptom free unless I am triggered by external events like stress, being ‘glutened’ or other disease occurring. So …
Overwhelmed, isolated and alone with no one who really seems to understand how you feel or what is happening to you?