I’ve spent the better part of the last 4 months in the worst POTS flare I’ve ever had. Because of that I’ve had to find a lot of new and...

I suspect my counselor has been quietly helping me to reframe things for years now, but I’ve only recently started to get good at it...

I have a solid handful of chronic health conditions. Most of these are treated by individual specialists. A cardiologist treats my POTS,...

Chronic Illnesses are sometimes referred to as dynamic disabilities, meaning that the level of disability can change significantly over...

I’ve written about depression much more often on this blog than I have anxiety. I think that’s because my anxiety has always felt more...

I announced in my previous post that I was going to be trying a new (to me) depression treatment called TMS or Transcranial Magnetic...

I’ve been depressed for most of my life. Pretty much all of my remembered life. I have been in therapy for 9 years now, with a therapist...

Life with chronic illnesses can be brutal sometimes. When your illness is incurable you have to balance acceptance of your current...

When I was 22 I started having debilitating digestive symptoms. I went to several doctors and eventually we ruled out everything else,...

In some ways I feel like grief has been my constant companion through life. Which is not to say that I have had a bad life, but grief is...

I’ve spent the last 6 years trying to figure out how to continue gardening despite my chronic illness struggles. I’ve had to make...

Gardening was one of my favorite activities before I became chronically ill. It has been a long journey but over the last decade or so I...

I went into this winter already in a pretty deep depression. That combined with the realities of COVID have made this winter a difficult...

One of the conditions I tend to talk about less on this blog is hypermobility spectrum disorder. Put in the most basic terms, the...

In my first post I talked about the need to keep searching for the right doctors, compression gear, online support groups, realistic...

When I was diagnosed with POTS in 2016 (after 14 years of symptoms) I didn’t know anyone else that had POTS. It felt extra scary to think...

Some days are pretty hard with depression. I’ve had depression for at least 20 years so I’m not new to this game. I can live through a...

One day last fall my husband was being insufferable and went on a long rant about how To Do lists are useless. He was reading a book...

Board games are a great way to pass some time while stuck at home. It’s inadvisable to have friends over for board game nights right now....

This year has been a strange one for all of us. Family and social connections in particular have been missed due to the pandemic....