by Chronic Joy Ministry | Nov 28, 2018 | Chronic illness
Chronic pain flares are hard. Practice these 21 strategies to make them just a little easier. Get the Grief Out. Have a good cry. Let yourself be sad. Don’t put on a positive act right at the beginning. It is normal and healthy to feel upset when bad things happen....
by Chronic Joy Ministry | Nov 13, 2018 | Chronic illness
My bag sits on the back of that chair so innocently. I love bags: handbags, purses, pocketbooks, or whatever you want to call them. I even love luggage and backpacks. They’re all such an easy way to take your stuff everywhere you go. They’re also an excellent way to...
by Chronic Joy Ministry | Nov 2, 2018 | Chronic illness, Mental Illness, Poetry
Pain swallows hope whole, quashing anticipation, motivation, and strength as heartbeats tumble through our fingers in a tempest of raging shame. Without hope, we wither, unmoored and disconnected from the Body, depleted. Yet in the beginning was the Word, and the...
by Chronic Joy Ministry | Oct 23, 2018 | Chronic illness, StepRepPray
I’m a fan of technology, especially fitness trackers. I’ve tried several different trackers over the years, landing on one I especially liked, one with a heart rate monitor. It’s not a top end model, but it gives me a general idea of what my heart rate is when...
by Chronic Joy Ministry | Oct 18, 2018 | Chronic illness
Last Resort Two years ago I agreed … actually sought out … to have a surgery that I had always considered as a “last resort.” However, my health had reached a point where it now sounded like a dream. Since my second spine surgery in 1995, I had lived with severe...
by Chronic Joy Ministry | Oct 2, 2018 | Chronic illness
I was recently the victim of identify theft. No, not through an online transaction or a lost checkbook. The unlikely location for identity theft was the high school guidance counselor’s office. My son, a rising tenth grader, and I visited the high school for a...
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