by Kate | Aug 24, 2024 | kind promises
This month, I’ve been considering the promise to “reinvent whimsically.” I have it as an annual reminder, but the ideal is to practice reinvention on an ongoing basis. It’s great to establish routines that support physical and mental well-being. But sometimes routines...
by Kate | Jul 24, 2024 | kind promises, Vulnerability
We like to imagine we are in control. The dominant culture encourages us to decide what we want, plan to go after it, and work hard to achieve it. We want to be go getters. The cost of that outlook is often anxiety, ill health, and loneliness. What is meant to bring...
by Kate | Jun 11, 2024 | kind promises
Sometimes you can find strength just by the way you think about things. I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at age 20. MS is a disease of the central nervous system. Each person with MS experiences it differently. It’s unpredictable and, when I was diagnosed,...
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 | Dec 16, 2023 | Chronic healing, kind promises
When you get a serious, life changing diagnosis, it often leaves you angry. Angry that things are the way they are. Angry at yourself for anything you did (or imagine you did) to cause the problem. It just shouldn’t be this way! It’s not fair! Your expectations for...
by Kate | Jul 12, 2023 | kind promises, Vulnerability
Does a treeask the sunwhere were youyesterdayThere were cloudsI was lonelyDoes the sunaccuse the treeyou are too needyI get so tiredof showing upit’s not like thatthe tree soaksthe sun shinesthey make beautytogetherand smile in your journal: Do you ever get...
