by Kate | Feb 19, 2020 | Chronic healing, kind promises, mindfulness
How does being mindful help you navigate the ups and downs of illness? Fear, anger, and grief ride in the slipstream of illness. It can be overwhelming. If you train your mind to focus on one small piece of reality, the overwhelm diminishes. While you’re holding...
by Kate | Jan 22, 2020 | Chronic healing, kind promises, Well-being
We often feel sick and exhausted. That’s the nature of chronic illness. So how can we live with well-being even in the midst of ill-health? We must challenge the notion that being healthy is expected and being ill makes us somehow at fault or unworthy of love and...
by Kate | Nov 25, 2019 | Chronic healing, kind promises, Love
When we think about generosity, we usually think about giving things, including money. Having a generous nature when it comes to objects is helpful in a relationship, but I’m thinking of a wider definition here. Yes, I want to be able to borrow your extra umbrella,...
by Kate | Oct 15, 2019 | Chronic healing, kind promises
When everything in our lives is going the way we think it ought, we feel surrounded by blessings. It’s easy to feel grateful. In dark times, though, when our relationships are full of conflict, our bodies are failing, or the world around us is in an uproar, it’s hard...
by Kate | Aug 6, 2019 | Chronic healing, kind promises, Transformation
In Buddhist thought, there is an idea called “impermanence.” It’s a recognition that life is always changing. Just when you think you have things sorted, something shifts and you need to adapt. During these times of change, I use the kind promise “I will reinvent...
by Kate | Jul 19, 2019 | Chronic healing, chronic illness, kind promises, Well-being
Are you sick and tired of feeling sick and tired? If you, like me, live with chronic illness and disability, the answer is probably “yes!” (If you, like me, live in Minnesota, your answer might be “you betcha!”) Sometimes the “chronic” part of the journey drags us...