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Episode 147: What are My New Year’s Intentions? Spirit Part 2
My final intention is for my spirit and is to make time for creative pursuits.
Brene Brown says that "creativity is the opposite of depression."
Creative outlets can be almost anything.
Currently, I tend to do small...
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Episode 146: What are My New Year’s Intentions? Spirit Part 1
How can I seek joy like a heat-seeking missile?
In the midst of carrying heavy burdens, I need support. Some of that support comes in the form of daily infusions of joy.
Am I clear about what brings me joy? If not,...
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Episode 145: What Are My New Year's Intentions? Mind Part 2
How can I feed my curiosity?
How can I stoke the question of why?
It is easy to feel isolated and like my brain is shriveling.
How can my interests lead me on a journey and help me feel like more than these...
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Episode 144: What Are My New Year;s Intentions? Mind Part 1
How can I stay present moment focused?
How can I spend more time here and now -- not looking back or forward?
How is my pain worse when I'm not focused on now?
One of the things that supports this is contemplative...
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Episode 143: What Are My New Year's Intentions? Body Part 3
How can I treat my body with care and kindness?
Why is it so easy to focus on what's wrong with my body?
What's going right with my body?
It's easy to see the thing that don't function properly but there are a lot of...
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Episode 142: What Are My New Year's Intentions? Body Part 2
What be my priorities for the new year?
How can I find pleasure in my body this year?
Chronic illness often brings so much pain, fatigue, and frustration.
Our bodies can feel like prisons. However, our bodies are...
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Episode 141: What Are My New Year's Intentions? Body Part 1
Nope, you didn't read that wrong, Episode 141. In an effort to get my Podcast synced up with my YouTube broadcasts, I'm skipping episodes 102-140. You can watch them on my YouTube channel...
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Episode 101: Sex And Chronic Illness, The Impacts
What are the impacts of having sex, and of not having it?
Social, emotional, psychological, and physical, there are impacts and consequences to our choices around sex.
What are the impacts on me, the person with the...
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Episode 100: Sex And Chronic Illness, How Do You Initiate Sex
As the person with the chronic illness, is it more often up to us to initiate sex on the days we feel potentially "up for it?"
What about the fact that my lowest pain often happens in the early parts of the day when...
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Episode 099: Sex And Chronic Illness, Redefining The Goal
In the lineup of things we give up or that are greatly diminished by chronic illness -- sex is definitely in my top ten.
Having been sick for the better part of a decade now, how have my goals changed?
How can I...
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Episode 098: Sex And Chronic Illness, The Accelerator And The Brakes
Where can we talk about the intersection sex and chronic illness?
What are the things that are our accelerators?
What are the things that are the brakes?
In addition to trying to figure out how to enhance the...
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Episode 097: Chronic Illness And Sex, Desire
How does desire factor in to the questions of sex with chronic illness?
Is my desire impacted truly less or has my psyche protected me by just cutting me off from my desire?
How can I reconnect to my desire as a...
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