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Self-Care Sunday: Compassion in Crisis
[Self-Care Sunday Series: wellness experts worldwide are sharing their self-care expertise, practices, routines and personal stories. Today our guest post is by yoga therapist, teacher and health advocate for chronic illness, Kayla Kurin] Life is often chaotic when living with a chronic illness. But am I the only one who feels the world is on the brink of collapse right now? On top of our day to day stressors and energy drains, we’ve now got some extra frustrations looming over our heads. Some of our friends in the US and in the UK may be facing a loss of health coverage, and some may be facing discrimination circulating in our…
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Jeans is Always Trendy
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Chronic Illness Self-Care Kit: Top Tools & Resources
Today we get to talk about luggage. Not gorgeous steamer trunks and vintage hat boxes (although I love those too), but the tools you need to pack to help you through your emotional journey. Believe me, this is the good kind of baggage. When you go travelling you pack what you will need, so we are not about to venture into our Forest of Emotions ill-equipped. Why am I doing this again? We are going to gather tools which help us manage our emotions and things that we can hold onto, should we get lost in the emotional forest, or hit by a grief-storm, for example. Emotions can be processed, this isn’t…
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Self-Care Sunday: Tending to My Future Self
Every Sunday morning I strip the beds. I wash the sheets in hot water. I comb through the fridge, getting rid of anything that is past its time. I open up my planner and write down everything that I want and need to do in the week ahead. I ready myself for what’s to come. I take a shower slowly. I shave my legs. I remember to put on moisturizer. I do all of the things that I often forfeit on days when I am running to get somewhere, while simultaneously trying to get my daughter dressed and out the door. I look at myself in the mirror. I pluck…
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