the autoimmune hippie.

Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. . . Practice resurrection. – Wendell Berry

brave

  • dancing with a limp

    Yesterday just beat me down six ways to Sunday. My new doc was very kind – but full of not-great-news. Questions about why my hips are falling apart with a different kind of arthritis? Turns out that is still RA related and to be expected. Sooo I need to be getting my head around these… Read more

  • pursuing my passion

    The new love of my television life is Queer Eye. I started it a couple of nights ago, made it through Episode Six, then restarted it tonight so I could watch it through with Sara. I lub it. One thing that I’ve noticed – as a new health coach who is about to graduate and… Read more

  • the unmentioned side effect of chronic illness

    I’ve started working on my book. . . so I’ve started doing lots and lots of thinking. . . Since my book deals with illness and body changes and size and health and weight loss and body image, there is so much to consider. As I was drafting the introduction, some things came to mind… Read more

  • no more waiting around

    Last Easter, I wrote that I was beginning my Integrative Nutrition Health Coaching Program. Though I still have several weeks of work to do, today I finished my final requirement for graduation and I am so thankful that I have been able to do this. I have learned so much. For this Easter, I had… Read more

  • happy birthday to me.

    Tomorrow, the 28th, will be one year since I said goodbye to the vino for good and I am so incredibly grateful to God every day for all of the changes that have come with becoming a teetotaler.   This year has truly been a wild ride. I have had some of the best experiences:… Read more

  • the quiet room (with cheryl strayed)

    If you look over my tattoos, they are mostly quotes and words. Bits and pieces I love. Parts of my story. I love words. I tend to hide in my books after a rough day. And yesterday was just terrible and bizarre and hard and unnecessary and frustrating with a child in a way my… Read more

  • becoming

    I’ve written often recently about the negatives of my illness – and there are many – but a thought has been following me around that has given me pause: Life is not happening to you; it’s happening for you. Even the bad stuff is, in some way, happening for us. And I’ve heard this in… Read more

  • a new word

    I suppose the weight of all that is going on right now has caught up with me. We are still waiting on our eldest daughter’s placement in her program and it has been a struggle and a terrible strain on our family for sure. Our youngest daughter is exhibiting the symptoms of full-blown autoimmune disease… Read more