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“Write a story that will save your life. If it saves yours, it will probably save someone else’s.” – Sophie Strand. We all have stories. Some of these stories are short, some are a couple of chapters long , and some are sweeping epic sagas. Our stories are a diverse web of our experiences, feelings,…
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I’ve had the pleasure of reading the book, “The Body Is A Doorway” by Sophie Strand and it has deeply resonated with me. Her raw and poignant memoir has resonated with so deeply in fact that there are times I feel like I am reading my own story. My own published and much more eloquently…
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I have written and re written this post several times. It feels like there is so much to say and yet it feels like I don’t have the words to say any of it. Yes, this is a blog about the experience of living with and hopefully thriving with chronic illness, but right now neither…
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My friend I never wanted to be in a friendship with came back last night in one of those smack you in the face kind of moments. She sucks at subtlety and timing. If grief was a human she would be an in your face, brash, loud, stage 5 clinger who would probably struggle with…
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It’s been over week since my last blog post and I’d love to be able to tell you that my insurance saga is all figured out and my happy ending is wrapped up with a nice, crisp, perfectly folded bow. Unfortunately, that’s not how life works, or at least it’s not how my life works.…
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I usually try to think of a cute or catchy title for each blog post. Something that gives you, the reader, a clue as to what the post below might contain. However, tonight there’s no cute or catchy title I can come up with. Tonight I find myself reeling and struggling with putting words together(…
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At our last session A+ therapist mentioned that we could make a collage to represent life before and life now. I immediately jumped at the idea as I had no idea we could have been doing arts and crafts this whole time instead of unpacking the debris field of grief one piece at a time.…
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Recently I’ve been obsessed with Tracy Chapman’s song “Talkin’ Bout A Revolution.” I can’t imagine why at this current season in my country I’d be obsessed with such a song, but I digress. One of the lyrics in the song is “Don’t you know. They’re talking about a revolution? It sounds like a whisper.” If…
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I had the joy of getting to spend the week with norovirus. For those of you who have had norovirus, you know what my week was like. For those of you who haven’t had norovirus, thank your lucky stars you don’t know what my week was like. You can Google norovirus, but the medical descriptions…
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Yesterday was a full circle moment for me. A moment that 2, 3, 4 years ago I could have never imagined happening. I led two 45 minute workshops on how I have used nature to help me ground and “heal” on my chronic illness journey. The BLC Sara (Before Long Covid) would have never imagined…
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