Cataplexy Archives - Going beyond coping

Adapting / Fibromyalgia / Introspection / Live and Learn / Narcolepsy / Sjogrens

April 28, 2018

Killing the Monkey in Your Mind aka Clearing Your Thoughts

Monkey Mind is when your thoughts are so consuming, it feels like the thought Monkeys are running the show. A lot of people with chronic illness have a hard time meditating and therefore can...

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 / 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 / Narcolepsy

April 25, 2017

Adapting – Erased mom – is that my kid?

I was sitting at a stoplight just now, there was a girl on the left corner waiting to cross the street. She had on glasses and a hat and her hair was up. She...

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,...

Happiness / Musing / Narcolepsy

March 31, 2017

Narcolepsy – going beyond coping with cataplexy

One of my cataplexy triggers is irrational situations. After meds failed I had to dig deeper into it in my own head. Seeing things from a different perspective doesn’t eliminate my cataplexy but it...

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