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Episode 084: How Can I Accept My Chronic Illness? Acceptance vs/Giving Up
If "that which we resist, persists," what implications does that have for my chronic illness?
If I want to diminish my resistance to my illness, acceptance is the way home.
How can I engage my parasympathetic nervous...
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Episode 083: How Can I Accept My Chronic Illness?
In today's video I'm talking about:
How can I work toward accepting my chronic illness?
Is acceptance the same thing as giving up or giving in?
Why has acceptance has increased my quality of life?
These are some of...
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Episode 082: How Do You Manage Your Weight And Chronic Illness? Maintenance
Here's the wrap-up to the series about weight management.
How do I navigate the ongoing saga of managing my weight?
How often am I tracking and restricting my calories these days?
What happens when I preach the...
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Episode 081: How Do You Manage Your Weight And Chronic Illness? Weight Loss
How was I going to lose 70 pounds while on prednisone?
What was my caloric intake at the time?
What was my method of tracking calories?
What was the breakdown of how I spent my calories in order to lose weight?
Going...
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Episode 080: How Do You Manage Your Weight And Chronic Illness? Transplant Weight
What happens when lung disease shows up?
The transplant list required me to loose weight.
How could I loose 70 pounds when I couldn't roll over in bed without assistance?
How was weight loss possible when high dose...
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Episode 079: How Do You Manage Your Weight And Chronic Illness? Overweight
What happened when high-dose steroids and a drug that stimulated my own steroid production came on line?
Unable to move because of muscle-wasting, I was trapped by illness and size.
When I went from underweight to...
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Episode 078: How Do You Manage Your Weight And Chronic Illness? Underweight
When muscle-wasting disease showed up - I dropped an alarming amount of weight in a short amount of time.
This was not healthy weight loss, this was muscle dissolving off bone.
In addition to the weight loss, I lost...
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Episode 077: How Do You Manage Your Weight And Chronic Illness? Early Illness Weight Loss
Have you been overwhelmed by people's suggestions about how you can "get healed?"
Being desperate, and being a people-pleaser, made me buy into this phenomenon hard core.
Have you tried all of the cleanses and...
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Episode 076: How Do You Manage Your Weight And Chronic Illness? Pre-Sickness, Plus-Sized
Do you remember the Huskies section at Sears?
I have been plus-sized most of my life.
Isn't it remarkable that people seem to think your weight is up for comment in our society, particularly if you're overweight?
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Episode 075: How Do You Cope With Disappointment? Part 2
Disappointments rock our lives with chronic illness.
What can the writing of Viktor Frankl teach us about surviving chronic illness?
How can our search for meaning pull us out of disappointment?
Unable to control so...
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Episode 074: How Do You Cope With Disappointment?
What happens when we do all the right things; we manage our time, energy, diet, inputs, and outputs, and yet we still don't feel well enough to do that thing we were hoping and looking forward to doing?
When...
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Episode 073: How Do You Cultivate A Rich Inner Life? Chapter 6
chronic illness,chronic disease,quality of life,wellness,self-care,autoimmune disease,immunosuppressed,chronic wellness,I am enough,chronic illness and marriage,chronic illness and relationships,chronic illness and...
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