Category Archives: Education and Skill Building

My longest post EVER?

Windows seem to frequently represent possibility or potential. At least, they do for me. I had a window open up for me a few days ago and the view was unsettling. During a recent conversation w......

Job Opening~ Full-Time health manager with strong experience…wait, that’s me!

Generally, I avoid using marketing materials to describe what I “do.”  It feels to me like using brochures or shoving business cards down people’s throats somehow adds a ‘snake oil’ component th......

Quick note about this Saturday’s Beaverton-area Fibro/CFS Support Group Meeting

Positive Lifestyle Coach, MLWT Guest and overall great gal, Andréa Crisp, will be presenting on Laughter Yoga.  It will be a great opportunity to learn a little more about this wonderful breathi......

Whatcha’ doing today at 5pm, Oregon and SW Washington?

A quick note about our LFA Pacific NW Chapter’s webinar today~ “Living With Lupus” featuring Philip Moberg, MD out of Seattle.  He will be offering an overview of the disease and its many form......

May 7th~ World Ankylosing Spondylitis Awareness Day

I have had the pleasure of meeting and collaborating with some amazing people, including the crew at the Spondylitis Association of America. Although there isn’t an official chapter of the Spon......

May and Lupus back in the spotlight

Here we are again~ National Lupus Awareness Month.  International Lupus Awareness Day is May 10th.  In Oregon, SB348 (Senate Bill 348 designates May of each year as Lupus Awareness Month and ma......

Integrative Care and Autoimmune Disease~ A Community presentation

Here’s a note from the Oregon Chapter of the Scleroderma Foundation regarding their upcoming Portland-area support group meeting on November 13th: “Guest speaker at the next Scleroderma Support ......

Playing the matching game

My good friend, and fellow blogging buddy, Leslie, who authors Getting Closer To Myself   recently posted about a topic that is at the core of my work here in our Pacific Northwest lupus and chr......

Want to learn more about Pilates?

Our Oregon Scleroderma Foundation Chapter will be holding their monthly support group meeting this Saturday, May 8th.  As always, their support groups are open to all (even if you don’t ha......

OR Scleroderma Foundation’s Cheri Woo Education Seminar This Saturday!

Just a reminder about the Educational Seminar going on this Saturday, offered through the Oregon Chapter of the Scleroderma Foundation.  Even if you don’t have this particular disease, the......