by Kate | Jul 22, 2020 | Chronic healing, chronic illness, Well-being
In these in-between times of pandemic, we each need a reason to get up and moving and sustain ourselves across quiet days of isolation. Purpose can be an animating factor. Purpose, suggests Kira M. Newman isn’t something we find. It’s something we “can cultivate...
by Kate | Jan 22, 2020 | Chronic healing, kind promises, Well-being
We often feel sick and exhausted. That’s the nature of chronic illness. So how can we live with well-being even in the midst of ill-health? We must challenge the notion that being healthy is expected and being ill makes us somehow at fault or unworthy of love and...
by Kate | Jan 16, 2020 | kind promises, Well-being
Neuroscientist Richard Davidson considers mental well-being a skill, and describes its four components: awareness is attention and focus, the mind being aware that it is a mind, generating thoughts and judgments. 47% of people, Davidson reports, are not paying...
by Kate | Jan 8, 2020 | kind promises, Well-being
Well-being is feeling strong and calm, full of purpose and vitality. We can look at it through physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual lenses. I get into trouble, though, when I look at an ideal, consider my reality, and judge myself as lacking. How can I be kind...
by Kate | Jul 19, 2019 | Chronic healing, chronic illness, kind promises, Well-being
Are you sick and tired of feeling sick and tired? If you, like me, live with chronic illness and disability, the answer is probably “yes!” (If you, like me, live in Minnesota, your answer might be “you betcha!”) Sometimes the “chronic” part of the journey drags us...
by Kate | Feb 19, 2019 | Well-being
I’ve been doing a lot of reading about well-being. It seems like creativity: every thinker as a different definition and most people these days have something to sell. It’s easy to get lost in the weeds. Let me simplify. Physical: what sorts of physical...
