Erasedmom Archives - Going beyond coping

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...

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....

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,...

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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