A Chronic Voice writes about her life w. #ChronicIllness & #disability. "To provide insight into life with #ChronicIllness is to put your vulnerabilities on public display. It means showing fragments of a broken body, and wounds that will never heal." Read it: achronicvoice.com/2019/04/25/why…

"Instead of..persuading us to #sacrifice 1 for the other, she wants us to be able to use both kinds of #attention for different things. It is not then a story abt giving something up, it is a story about extending a repertoire": buff.ly/3NWpugC via The Guardian #perspective

“While often poo-pooed by #doctors, those of us with #fibromyalgia all seem to agree that #weather has a direct effect on our pain and symptoms”: buff.ly/31G3gXI by Cynthia Covert, The Disabled Diva #ChronicPain #PainFlares

“Recognizing the influence of my #subconscious #mind over my power of will, I shall take care to submit to it a clear & definite picture of my CLEAR #PURPOSE in life and all minor purposes leading to my major purpose": buff.ly/4buog5P via @brainpicker retired #BruceLee #willpower

““Sex is always an issue w a #flareup. For men, it can be intensely uncomfortable, and the pelvic pain that follows afterward can horrible.” - Christopher H.": buff.ly/3OnUnuI from @themightysite #MensHealth #ChronicPain #SexualHealth #ChronicIllness

"#Prolactin is a #hormone responsible for lactation & breast tissue development; #orexin is a #neurotransmitter that helps to promote staying awake..both have many other functions that are only now being revealed": buff.ly/3xoc7kf via SciTechDaily #ChronicPain #research

“Using the #crutch, however, shatters such an illusion. Suddenly, I saw my crutch as a huge signpost for everyone ard me that something was wrong with me. It was now suddenly visible that I was #sick”: buff.ly/3g0oaZH by Rhiann Johns #disabled #ChronicallyIll #spoonie

It's hard when yr in so much #pain both mentally & physically, but sometimes within that #darkness, there is a #stillness we can find that helps to ground us, letting us know that all will eventually be well deep within us. For more #quotes 👉 buff.ly/3M0cMNg #ChronicPain

“In addition, when placed under #stress, the #breathing group showed less of a stress response than, ironically, the #stressmanagement group, suggesting that the breathing helped them become more stress #resilient": buff.ly/4c56GWv from Psychology Today #mentalHealth

“#Shame comes from a deeper place, a place where we feel flawed or defective. When we feel defective, we feel #unworthy. This belief is not uncommon in the #chronicillness community”: buff.ly/3HHQBbx from @apainprincess #SelfWorth #ChronicallyIll

“#NickJonas started his battle against #Type1diabetes when he was 13, and he has used his popularity and platform to #advocate for the condition #awareness": buff.ly/4aMNpIK from AG #ChronicIllness

“may be able to adopt a more aggressive approach for managing low-grade marginal #lymphoma in #Sjögrendisease, particularly #mucosa-associated #lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma, based on recent findings that confirmed a key early #biomarker": buff.ly/3TjUvOe from Medscape

"#Acceptance, in contrast, is an active embrace of reality..required me to stop fearing that movement would paralyze me and instead consider the price of protecting my vulnerabilities": buff.ly/3HM7QIJ by Jennifer Crow #ChronicPain #ChronicallyIll #living #spoonie

“If they suffer from #chronicpain, they’re in #pain all of the time. If their muscles ache, they ache every day. As we in the #chronicillness community like to point out: “Chronic means #chronic.””: buff.ly/2LMbX97 from Psychology Today Toni Bernhard #awareness

"#pacing isn’t just about activity, its about using my #energy efficiently. I’ve found that if I let my nervous system stimulation levels get high, I tend to rush more & hold more tension in my body, using my energy less effectively”: buff.ly/3ODwBIp by The ME CFS Holistic Coach

““Until one day, I kind of just accepted that this is tough,” she says, “and with this small shift I began to be open to receiving help, to consider, ‘OK, how am I actually going to live like this?’””: buff.ly/3LC0x8I from AnOther Magazine #SelfAcceptance #ChronicIllness

“Many #chronicillnesses are accompanied by an all-encompassing #fatigue and sadly, there’s not one ritual for #restoration that will fully take away that level of exhaustion": buff.ly/3LuTJcJ #ChronicPain #ChronicFatigue

“An #emotional binary of “good” & “bad” #emotions actually makes matters more confusing. “You don’t understand how you should respond to what’s going on..whether you should flee or fight, whether you should bite your tongue””: buff.ly/4cvK8OI from Vox #anxiety

“Those Greeks had some shit figured out, didn’t they? There’s a lot of #wisdom..reading thru the #Stoics..while they aren’t specifically #quotes abt #invisibleillness, they’re abt the pain & struggle & triumph of being alive": buff.ly/3yeX2lw via Janet Jay (she/her) #LifeLessons

"Maybe, your hair, make-up and outfit are all en pointe and you look and feel like a million dollars. But you, and only you, know the #anxiety and stress you live with courtesy of your #ChronicIllness":buff.ly/3WOx4z3 by @pather009 #ChronicPain #InvisibleIllness #spoonies