by Sara | Jul 5, 2021 | Living With Health Challenges, Mental Struggles, Navigating Healing & Recovery
Read part one here. I was recently processing our tendency to use every drop of energy we have with my counselor. As an Enneagram type two, self care is not my area of strength. As I have been trying to grow in that area, I have done research about self care and type...
by Sara | Jun 21, 2021 | Living With Health Challenges, Navigating Healing & Recovery
For the first time since I could remember, I wasn’t utterly drained. It was a weird feeling. So weird it is probably hard to understand unless you have spent years ending each day with every drop of energy and willpower drained out of you. And even then — it’s weird,...
by Sara | Oct 26, 2020 | Living With Health Challenges, Navigating Healing & Recovery
When I tell people that most of my best friends are people I met in an online community and who I’ve never met in person . . . I get some funny looks. But I suspect the chronic illness warriors reading this get it. It can be difficult for chronic illness...
by Sara | Oct 12, 2020 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Navigating Healing & Recovery
You probably wouldn’t guess my least favorite routine medical procedure. It’s not giving stool or urine samples, though those aren’t fun. It’s not getting my eyes looked at or being poked and prodded. It’s not getting a flashlight shown down my throat. It’s not giving...
by Sara | Jul 27, 2020 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Living With Health Challenges, Navigating Healing & Recovery
I was watching a break-up video on YouTube. Yeah, that says a lot about how far down the YouTube black hole I fell during the window of time I’d set aside for practicing self-care. Oops. But she said something about brokenness that made me think. What if being...
by Sara | Jul 23, 2020 | Book News & Recs, Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Navigating Healing & Recovery, Uncategorized
It’s funny. My actual birthday was just over a month ago. But I would have been happy to totally ignore it. July 23rd, on the other hand, has become much more of a mile marker in my life. Rather than my birthday, it’s the day I celebrate, and the day I look back over...
