THRIVING

Thinking is how we survive the uncertainty of chronic illness. We can’t just ignore our bodies or pretend everything is fine and we have to think about our health. But sometimes thinking so much keeps us from living today. Thinking constantly-about symptoms, energy, medications and tomorrow. Living with chronic illness has made me question that line I said on stage many years ago. When life changes in ways you never asked for, coping with life altering events and chronic ill

Just when I start feeling Alive and I think I've finally learned how to thrive inside the storm-it finds another way to hit me. Lately, I have felt hopeful, laughed, sung and embraced life. Moments when I’ve thought, maybe this is what thriving inside the storm looks like. Not that the storm has gone away. But that somehow, I have learned how to live inside it. And then—the storm changes. When life changes in ways you never asked for. coping with life altering events and chro

I don’t want to be bitter and mean to other people, but sometimes it’s really hard not to react to their comments, actions, or emotions. This life-changing event has taken its toll on my marriage and friendships, and I wish I had been in a place to realize earlier the impact this has had on those around me and what I could do about it.. Coping with life-altering events, chronic illness, and identity loss.

I know darkness. I've lived in it. And for a long time, I believed the story it was telling me: that the darkness was taking something from me. That each day spent in the dark was a day subtracted from the person I used to be. That the goal, the only goal, was to get back to the golden light. To return. To recover. To walk out of the storm the same color I walked in. But I was wrong. Coping with life-altering events, chronic illness, and identity loss.

Your emotions aren't the enemy. They're messengers. They're trying to tell you what matters, what hurts, what needs attention. In the storm, they can feel overwhelming, but they're also proof your heart is still alive, still caring, still fighting for you. Don't mistake your emotions for who you are. Coping with life altering events and chronic illnessWhen life changes in ways you never asked for. Coping with life-altering events, chronic illness, and identity loss.

They seemed elusive but I found that it begins with the smallest spark, and sometimes that was enough to carry me forward. Anchoring Yourself inside the storm keeps you from being lost and gives you something to hold onto. Something that keeps you from being pulled under, that helps you rise even while you’re still in the storm. coping with life altering events and chronic illnessWhen life changes in ways you never asked for. Coping with life-altering events, chronic illness,

Grieving the life you had before. When life changes in ways you never asked for. Coping with life-altering events, chronic illness, and identity loss.

How to Re-Engage in Life. Even when the mind is loud and the body feels unsettled you can still create a path back toward a life that feels worth living. Coping with life-altering events, chronic illness, and identity loss.

How to Create Safety and Re-Engage in Life. Altering the Survival Mindset Trap Coping with life-altering events, chronic illness, and identity loss.

When life changes in ways you never asked for. Coping with life-altering events, chronic illness, and identity loss.

The Effects of The Storm. Coping with life-altering events, chronic illness, and identity loss.

Meeting Yourself Where You Are Coping with life-altering events, chronic illness, and identity loss.

Quieting the Storm a Path to Healing Coping with life-altering events, chronic illness, and identity loss.

The You the Storm Can Not Break Coping with life-altering events, chronic illness, and identity loss.

Keeping Hope Alive in the Storm Coping with life-altering events, chronic illness health, identity loss, grief