There's nothing quite as exhilarating as a home remodeling show that transforms a special space from drab or defective to contemporary, functional and gorgeous in 30 minutes. When you have a chronic illness it's natural to want a quick fix too. As the homeowner, however, you realize that ...
Supporting the Vagus (Social Nervous System)
Healing Chronic Illness: 11 Tools for Addressing Nervous Systems Perceptions of Threat and Finding YOUR Pathway to Healing (with Covid Updates+)
11 Tools for Healing Chronic Illness Our bodies have an underlying drive to heal and be well. They also have an innate blue print for health, even when we are sick with a chronic disease. Healing chronic illness from a nervous system perspective supports this powerful mechanism that every body ...
Transforming Chronic Illness: 20 Metaphors and Tips From Gardening With Your Soul
Right now, with all the painful, difficult stuff streaming into all of my newsfeeds and throughout so many of my social media channels, I need something gentle, compassionate and positive to read. Something that gives me hope and reminds me of all the good in people and in the world. Something that ...
18 Stealthy Ways to Act Out & Heal Fight, Flight, Freeze and Disease
Getting stuck in states of fight, flight, freeze or faint can lead to physiological changes that drive disease. Regaining the ability to come out of survival states is one way that helps us resolve chronic illness. We can experience stuck states of F/F/F/F as high or low blood pressure, high or ...
15 Steps for Healing Through Impulse And Play (More Social Nervous System and Chronic Illness Tips)
It's still summer time for just a little while longer and I've been talking and writing a lot about trauma. It's time to play and I want to introduce unexpectedly fun ways to support your social nervous system (also known as "The Vagus"). I've updated this 2016 post with new content and ...
Shhhh… Listen! Do You Hear Your Social Nervous System Calling? (7 Tips for Healing Chronic Illness)
While treating trauma is an important tool for improving our health, following impulses for pleasure is an aspect of trauma therapy that can be used in everyday life. It is a way of working with an overactive nervous system. It's a way of listening so you can heal social nervous system functions and ...
Making Time for Chronic Illness Resources (Tips for Healing Chronic Illness)
The chronic illness resources in this post are about everyday little things that support healing the nervous system and patterns in our physiology that affect symptoms. Without much effort and without us ever quite realizing it. Making time for them is not a frivolous act but one of self love, ...
Anniversary Celebrations and Chronic Illness: How We Have Fun in Our Getaways
2018 Update We've been figuring out how to combine our wedding anniversary celebrations and chronic illness experiences over the years. David got sick for more than a year himself recently and has gotten to know what the underbelly of chronic illness feels like. As hard as it's been, it's also ...