Tag: support
A sort of love letter to pain — my gratitude to learning strength, grace, and humility.
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Category: Chronic Illness, Life AdviceTags: #chroniclife, advice, arthritis, autoimmune arthritis, autoimmune disease, autoimmune diseases, autoimmunity, chronic diseases, chronic illness, chronic illness bloggers, chronic life, chronic pain, Chronically Kristin, depression, health, Invisible Illness, life, mental state, pain, reality, strength, support, symptoms, truth
Getting real around here to talk about mental health and coronavirus anxiety.
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Category: Chronic Illness, Life AdviceTags: #chroniclife, advice, advocacy, anxiety, autoimmune disease, autoimmune diseases, chronic disease, chronic diseases, chronic illness, chronic life, Chronically Kristin, coronavirus, COVID19, depression, health, inspiration, invisibile illness, Invisible Illness, life, mental state, reality, strength, support, truth
If you haven’t checked out the #SELFCAREMVMT yet from Self Care Catalysts, I urge you to visit their website and read my first blog in the series from last week. Self-care is an integral part of the quality of life of a chronic illness patient. Patients are advocating for this movement, and now companies are too!
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Category: Chronic Illness, Life AdviceTags: #selfcaremvmt, ankylosing spondylitis, app, blogger, chronic illness, chronic pain, Chronically Kristin, disease management, education, exercise, fibromyalgia, health storylines, healthcare, patient advocacy, physical self-care, self care catalysts, self care movement, support
Hi everyone! I just wanted to update with a post on my blog posts for ePharma Summit. You can read my posts, and others, on their blog, here. Follow them on social media with @epharma and #epharma16. Here are the first two… Continue Reading “ePharma Blog Posts”
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Category: Patient AdvocacyTags: blog posts, chronic illness, chronic pain, Chronically Kristin, epatient, epharma, epharma summit, epharma16, health, healthcare, Invisible Illness, life, support
Posted on April 27, 2015
by Kristin M. Johnston
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I’m just a little bit over two years into my diagnoses of chronic diseases. Who knows how long I’ve actually had them, or at the very least had the beginning symptoms. But March 3, 2013 feels like it was a mix between my D-Day… Continue Reading “The Invisibility of Invisible Illness”
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Category: Life AdviceTags: arthritis, autoimmune disease, chronic illness, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, invisible, Invisible Illness, loneliness, lonely, social media, support
The past two months of my life have been such a wide range of emotions, while being some of the hardest times I’ve had in a very long time. While working to sustain the person and character I have worked a lifetime to build,… Continue Reading “Trials Towards Strength”
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Category: Life AdviceTags: advice, arthritis, autoimmune disease, autoimmunity, chronic illness, fibromyalgia, health, inspiration, Invisible Illness, life, medical leave, mental state, negative vs. positive, reality, strength, support, truth
Just dropping in quickly to add a little nugget of perspective and inspiration, as I’d really like everyone to read this story. It’s called “The Spoon Theory,” and written by Christine Miserandino (find her site here). I cried the first time I read this… Continue Reading “The Spoon Theory”
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People have different interpretations on what ‘tough’ is. On what ‘strength’ is. On what ‘pain tolerance’ is. Realistically, it doesn’t quite matter where a person falls on the varying degrees of those three notions; what matters is how you feel, how you experience a… Continue Reading “On Being Tough…”
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Posted on February 6, 2013
by Kristin M. Johnston
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I’m going to pass on doing the whole obligatory ‘hello. this is why I’m here’ post. (For more on that, read my About page). Let’s jump right in. A lot of what I write, vent, or stream of conscious about here is for my… Continue Reading “Let’s get right into it”
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