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Issues
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Negotiating with Your Illness
Throughout our lives we all come up with ways of coping with stress. Over time as our stressors increase we may have to devise new and improved methods of coping. I can’t think of anything more stressful than receiving a chronic or life-threatening illness diagnosis. This is the time to call out the big guns…don’t…
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Telling The Story
How many times have you told your illness story? If you’ve been a part of a support group the answer is too many times to count. If you haven’t you may have told the story to close friends, extended family, significant others, but every time you tell the story you need to think about how…
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Caregivers are Undercover Agents
Welcome to Caregiver Friday! I’ve been thinking a lot this week about all the roles that the caregiver takes on to support someone they love who is sick (or needs extra care like older adults). One of the roles that the caregiver takes on is that of undercover agent. You are the person who watches…
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You Are Not Your Illness
I’m amazed at how many people following a chronic or life-threatening diagnosis abandon their identity for that of a sick person. The thing I want you to understand is that this is a component of your life, not who you are. The disease is something you have, not something you are. I used to run…
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