Category: Musing

Adapting / Fibromyalgia / Happiness / Introspection / Live and Learn / Musing / Narcolepsy

September 11, 2019

What happens if I don’t… beat myself up?

What happens if I don’t beat myself up? The text for this is below. If you would rather watch a video of this post, it’s not identical but nearly, you can do that here...

Fibromyalgia / Happiness / Live and Learn / Musing / Narcolepsy / Sjogrens

March 10, 2018

Coping through Introspection: A Journey into You, Video series

This Monday, March 12, I’ll be releasing the first video of my series, Coping through Introspection: A Journey into You This is now live 🙂 After 37 years with narcolepsy, two movement disorders, two...

Adapting / Live and Learn / Musing / Random

May 27, 2017

Adapting – Are they late… or, it is happening all over again? – Erased mom

Things were iffy between us when my daughter decided to erase me from her life. But, I had been trying to have “family meetings” and impart life lessons. Mother’s Day had been just a...

Adapting / Happiness / Musing

May 12, 2017

Perspective – Two dogs – Happiness

Two dogs. There’s a difference between coping and going beyond coping and the difference, is happiness. I’m at the park, down the street from my son’s elementary school. I’m sitting in my car, stapling...

Adapting / Fibromyalgia / Happiness / Live and Learn / Musing / Narcolepsy / Sjogrens

May 2, 2017

Adapting – What are you giving your time to?

I wrote this a few years ago. I’m happy to say I no longer cry “every” morning, exception: Tearios for breakfast… Happy Matters A poem. Sorta. Just got up Brushed my teeth, Got some...

Adapting / Musing

April 26, 2017

Adapting – Erased mom – the muddy water is yours

I managed to kill the monkey in my mind a little over a year ago. I used to over analyze everything. And, I mean everything… Even, my grocery list. I’ll do a separate post...

Adapting / Fibromyalgia / Happiness / Live and Learn / Musing / Narcolepsy / Sjogrens

April 10, 2017

Adapting – You had it all along Dorothy

Often at the end of a quest the hero discovers that they had what they needed all along. The only reason why they eventually discover it is because they keep trying, they don’t quit....

Adapting / Fibromyalgia / Happiness / Live and Learn / Musing / Narcolepsy / Sjogrens

April 7, 2017

Adapting – Why do you get up so early?

I get up every morning at 4:10 am. I turn my outdoor heated blanket on high, put on the kettle, use the bathroom, brush my teeth, put some kvass in water, make a coffee...

Fibromyalgia / Happiness / Musing / Narcolepsy / Random

April 2, 2017

Going beyond coping – anger – wet blanket syndrome

You mad bro? Wet blanket syndrome. Most people experience it at one point or another but with the constant (quality of) sleep deprivation, people with narcolepsy or constant pain can be ‘afflicted’ more often. Say...

Live and Learn / Musing / Narcolepsy

April 1, 2017

Narcolepsy – why happy matters

Sure, you can say happy matters but, why does it matter? Narcolepsy is a disease/disorder/illness fueled by emotions. Many of us hear from our doctors, “Oh, you’re just depressed.” Um, of course we are,...

Category: Musing

What happens if I don’t… beat myself up?

Coping through Introspection: A Journey into You, Video series

Adapting – Are they late… or, it is happening all over again? – Erased mom

Perspective – Two dogs – Happiness

Adapting – What are you giving your time to?

Adapting – Erased mom – the muddy water is yours

Adapting – You had it all along Dorothy

Adapting – Why do you get up so early?

Going beyond coping – anger – wet blanket syndrome

Narcolepsy – why happy matters

GoingBeyondCoping YouTube

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