by Kate | Sep 24, 2025 | Chronic healing, chronic illness, compassion, kind promises
Living with chronic illness is a challenge. In addition to physical sensations, like pain and fatigue, we feel the emotional uproar of fear and anger. Sometimes we also feel embarrassment and/or guilt. It’s easy to think “I should be handling this better!” We add...
by Kate | Jul 22, 2025 | Chronic healing, chronic illness, Delight of the day, joy
When I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a friend sent me Norman Cousins’ Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration.” It’s a personal account of Cousins’ recovery from a debilitating illness. It...
by Kate | Apr 10, 2024 | chronic illness, connectedness, kind promises
Dr. Vivek M. Murthy is the US Surgeon General. As he traveled the country, he heard that people felt isolated, insignificant, and invisible. That led him, in May 2023 to declare loneliness an epidemic. “Loneliness is like hunger,” he said “a signal we are lacking...
by Kate | Mar 15, 2023 | chronic illness, mindfulness
I (along with a group of friends) been working with The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning by Resmaa Menakem. The book teaches embodied anti-racism. Each chapter includes “body practices”...
by Kate | Aug 17, 2022 | chronic illness, joy
This month I am contemplating whimsical reinvention. When life gets difficult, one option is making different choices with a light heart. It’s the lightness that’s the challenge. I recently searched the web for “how to add whimsy to your life.” Results were fun to...
by Kate | Oct 20, 2021 | Advocacy, Chronic healing, chronic illness, Well-being
A friend was behind in her book club reading. “I have to read four chapters,” she sighed. Editing herself, she amended “I choose to read four chapters.” I suggested “you get to read four chapters.” She was re-ordering her thinking as we listened. Living with chronic...
