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So COVID arrived in early January. We didn’t expect the virus to come into our home. We thought we were pretty safe, following the recommendations, and we really don’t know how the virus got in. It started with my wife saying her back was hurting and she was feeling a little bad. So she talked […]
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My Response to Coronavirus
This is really happening. It’s been setting in for me over the past few days and weeks that something really big is happening that is totally out of control. We have started a collective journey, against our choice, and now we’re all trying to figure out what we do with this experience. It’s like a […]
How We Develop Sickness Mentality: Tolerance over Time
Note: This is Part 1 of a 3 part series, further posts will explain how you begin to heal and work with sickness mentality. This first aspect of how we develop a sickness mentality is tolerance. Humans are capable of tolerating all kinds of extremes, though in many cases we develop that tolerance incrementally, over […]
Sickness Mentality
Anyone who has been sick with an “invisible illness” has probably heard some form of “Just think positive thoughts. Make a list of what you’re grateful for. Just buck up and deal with it.” And there is some truth to thinking positively and doing the work to have the best attitude about your illness as […]
The Illness vs. Wellness Models of Health
Simply put the illness model of health implies that any sickness, disease or disorder is atypical in opposition to a state of health and wellbeing. This idea creates a distinction that contrasts health with illness as a means of defining what illness is. It says that we are healthy when we are not ill, and […]
What is Wellbeing?
Wellness and wellbeing are terms that are too often used in our society as a sort of catch-all for the idealized state of health and happiness. We typically define wellbeing as feeling good in the present moment and leave it at that. However, this is a limited definition that doesn’t work for people who have […]
Chronic Illness Changes Your Perspective
Chronic illness is strange and upsetting, because over time the illness becomes your perspective of the world. Your body, your mind is incapable of resolving it, and so you slowly and unconsciously start to incorporate it into your worldview, as a way that you survive it. It becomes a very strange experience, because you’re no […]