Survival Skills: Grieving Spaces

I woke up with a niggle in my chest. It’s fine, I told myself. I took pain killers anyway. They I laid down to rest, but the pain became rapidly worse. So I got up, sat on the couch, and began praying that the pain killers would kick in really soon. Twenty minutes later I […]

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Why Diagnosis Was a Relief For Me—and When Getting Better is Hard

Being diagnosed with a lifelong condition is a source of grief for many people. But diagnosis was actually a relief for me—and my grief sometimes gets worse when I get better, not just when I get sicker.  I am unfortunate enough to be living with an absolute monster of an autoimmune disease commonly known as […]

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