Learning to celebrate the positive instead of focusing on the negative Last week, I had an appointment with my urologist. I hadn’t seen him for a year. A year! I had called in with one issue in that entire year and that was pretty quickly resolved. When I was at my appointment, I realized I …
10 Lessons learned from having chronic illnesses
on Monday, May 13, 2019
I was 3 when my bladder issues first started. Though they waxed and waned through different parts of my childhood, they came back with a vengeance when I was 23 and have stuck around ever since. A few years ago, they added their friend fibromyalgia into the mix. I am a different patient today than …
Anxiety, depression and spring break
on Friday, March 15, 2019
A recent spring break trip sent me home with a souvenir of lessons about my anxiety and depression A few months ago, I made my first video for my Facebook page about my struggle with anxiety and depression. I recorded it multiple times because making a video gave me anxiety (it still does!). The irony …
Don’t live life in fear
on Monday, January 14, 2019
How I’m learning to stop letting fear hold me back Since I was about 8 years old, my favorite Bible verse has been Isaiah 41:10: While I’ve grown to the love the entire verse for different reasons, the first part of that verse — “So not fear, for I am with you” — has always …