Tagged: Perspective

July 7, 2019

How to be more positive. Happy matters.

Fight or flight? We spend a lot of time there. From the time I awaken, usually with a gasp, I’ve got my sympathetic nervous system working overtime to help me drag this faulty meat...

Anger is only one letter short of danger

Adapting / Happiness / Introspection / Live and Learn / Narcolepsy

January 20, 2019

5 Rules for Arguing with Narcolepsy

5 Rules for arguing with narcolepsy This piece is also available as a video on my YouTube channel As you know, I’m not a doctor – or a mental health professional – I call...

It could be worse and The devil that you know…

Adapting / Diet / Fibromyalgia / Food

December 2, 2018

It could be worse & The devil that you know…

It could be worse and The devil that you know… Some people get offended or upset when they’re expressing their health issues to them and they say something like, “It could be worse!” and,...

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 / Narcolepsy

February 28, 2018

Giving up my fear of death – Going beyond coping with narcolepsy

From witches coming out of the closet, to people coming into your house and brushing their teeth, to elephants traipsing through the bedroom, to feeling like you’re battling for your very soul… having narcolepsy...

Adapting / Diet / Fibromyalgia / Food / Live and Learn / Narcolepsy / Sjogrens

July 4, 2017

11 tips for staying on an elimination type diet

Making it through the first 30 days of an elimination type diet is hard enough, what about after? You’re feeling better, how do you stay motivated? After a recent ‘fall from grace,’ I decided...

Adapting / Fibromyalgia / Live and Learn / Narcolepsy / Sjogrens

June 9, 2017

Exercise? I thought you said, extra fries!

I love that joke about exercise. That one and, “I named my dog ‘Ten Miles’ so I can tell everyone I walked Ten Miles today. If you hate exercising and feel like you’ll never...

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...