"The scientific studies about spending time in #nature are just mind-blowing. It affects your immune system, your heart health, it affects everything": buff.ly/3dSIw8t Suzan Jackson#wellbeing #HealthAndWellness #LifeLessons #podcast

“But #vorfreude is not about wishing your life away and thinking you will be #happy in an imagined future. “Looking forward to something can trigger #joy in the present moment,” says Karen Neil”: buff.ly/443n5HS from The Guardian #happiness #wisdom

“living with my condition has taught me the importance of #advocating for myself, establishing #boundaries, and confidently saying no when I am unable or unwilling to fulfill certain demands": buff.ly/3Q1KiEB via CreakyJoints.org Eileen Davidson - Rheumatoid Arthritis Advocate #SickLessons

"If you can’t go on, you need help. Then you just ask for it, because we all have different lots in life, right?..what we can give, we give. What we can take, we take": buff.ly/3PiLiB2 Despite Pain #LifeLessons #AskForHelp #MentalHealth #ChronicPain #humanity

“On the road of life, we come to realize that we rarely have #confidence when we begin anew, but as we move forward and tap into our inner and outer resources, our confidence gradually builds”: buff.ly/3w98FsZ by Marc & Angel Chernoff #SelfEsteem #Lifelessons #PersonalDevelopment

“Goals, projects, interests and pursuits absorb our attention in positive directions..The secret of the pursuit of #happiness is that happiness is in the pursuit": buff.ly/3UzyprO by Scott Young #LifeLessons #LifeGoals #passion #hobbies

“Above all try not to #worry about things that may never happen. Life is too short to go there, & when #chronicallyill, finding ways to be chronically content is a much better way to use your energy": buff.ly/3WvqEVc by Sam Moss #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #spoonie

"I think what they feel is if they accept what they’re dealing with, it is sort of just giving up, and it’s not, it’s not #givingup at all. You know, it’s doing what’s best for themselves": buff.ly/3PiLiB2 Despite Pain #acceptance #LifeLessons #ChronicPain #spoonie

"After I finish one task, I will assess the whole [#todolist] again to see where my #energy is, and kind of rearrange it. Most of the time, I’m just throwing things to the next day..I always overestimate my energy": buff.ly/3dSIw8t #ChronicFatigue #ChronicPain #SelfCare

“I know that my physical #challenges are waiting for me, but I will have #memories of my epic 300-second adventure to bolster my spirit. It’s a good day": buff.ly/3Xa0WWH from @themightysite #ChronicLife #LifeLessons #ChronicPain

"Like my #todolist every day is kind of like, I don’t even bother to organise it for tomorrow until I wake up and then I’m like, okay, how much energy do I have?": buff.ly/3PiLiB2 Despite Pain #ChronicFatigue #ChronicPain #productivity #success

"I’m kind of in awe of [#healthy people] because they can push themselves day and night, all year and weekends, I don’t know, like, I don’t know how they do it without [being in #pain]): buff.ly/3PiLiB2 Despite Pain#ChronicPain #awareness #podcast

"it’s something that people can only learn the hard way, because they’ve never experienced what it’s like to be in so much #pain. And pain is not something you think about until you’re in pain": buff.ly/3PiLiB2 Despite Pain #MondayBlogs #ChronicPain #LifeLessons

"even people that are in pain, after they, say if their condition improves, they start to forget abt how much #pain it was..I guess a defense mechanism of sorts, or I think we’d all not #survive, right?": buff.ly/3PiLiB2 Despite Pain #ChronicPain #MondayBlogs #spoonie

"people that have got problems, I think you can look at a situation and you don’t judge it in the same way as some people judge things. Maybe there’s a reason why somebody is feeling kind of down or grumpy or whatever": buff.ly/3PiLiB2 Despite Pain #empathy #BeKind

"because I can’t do so much..so I like to look around me and I see things and appreciate the small things": buff.ly/3PiLiB2 Despite Pain #LittleThings #gratitude #LifeLessons #ChronicIllness #Podcast

"it’s easy to sit and look back at the past and wish that things were different, but it doesn’t work..you can’t change the past. You can’t change how things are. So you have to try to just enjoy what you can": buff.ly/3PiLiB2 Despite Pain #MondayBlogs #mindfulness

"You can’t tell everything from a headline only, which is kind of like us, right? You can’t tell, until you know the whole package": buff.ly/3PiLiB2 Despite Pain #InvisibleIllness #ChronicallyIll #DisabilityTwitter #judgement #awareness

"The irony to that is, that I would have never have gone to that art class, if I hadn’t given up my work because of my pain. You know, that would have never ever happened": buff.ly/3PiLiB2 Despite Pain #ArtClass #LifeExperiences #LifeJourney #LifeLessons #podcast

"After years of pondering life, love, #baking..Grant has found a common thread among the dearly departed: #food as a #LoveLanguage. “The bottom line is, they all really loved food..& they use #cooking to connect with their loved ones”": eater.com/eater-at-home/… via Eater #recipes