Category Archives: Strategies
I will apparently go to great lengths to avoid exercising on purpose. This Wednesday, July 7th, was to be a Target Practice gathering at Cooper Mountain. It has to be postponed, but I still en......
2010/05/18
Autoimmune Diseases & Syndromes, Chronic Illness, Community, Coping, Education and Skill Building, Local Resources, MLWT, Oregon, Portland Metro, Research, Self-Care, Social Support, Strategies, Support Groups, Treatment Approaches and Perspectives, Washington
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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......
2009/11/07
Books, Challenge and Opportunity, Chronic Illness, Communication, Coping, Events, Lupus, Networking, Oregon, Self-Care, Social Support, Treatment Approaches and Perspectives, Washington
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In the last post , I spoke of how many of us constantly seek out information regarding our chronic illness believing that the more we know, the better we will be in managing our illnesses. Alth......
2009/11/05
Announcements, Books, Chronic Illness, Communication, Coping, Diagnosis, Education and Skill Building, Events, Local Resources, Lupus, MLWT, Oregon, Personal Stories, Self-Care, Social Support, Strategies, Treatment Approaches and Perspectives, Washington
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“My life has a great set of characters; I just haven’t figured out the plot.”
~Ashleigh Brilli......
2009/09/14
Advocacy, Announcements, Chronic Illness, Communication, Coping, Diagnosis, Events, Lupus, MLWT, Oregon, Personal Stories, Resources, Social Support, Treatment Approaches and Perspectives, Washington
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Here we go!
Monday, September 14th is the beginning of National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week 2009 and there will a lot of great people out there offering a great deal of informatio......
2009/09/04
Announcements, Challenge and Opportunity, Chronic Illness, Communication, Community, Creativity, Fibromyalgia, Local Resources, Lupus, MLWT, Oregon, Pilots and Programs, Portland Metro, Relationship-focused
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My Life Works Today! has been invited to design a curriculum using an internationally-recognized communications system to use for managing chronic illness. We are looking for a few participants ......
2009/08/10
Challenge and Opportunity, Chronic Illness, Communication, Education and Skill Building, Lupus, Oregon, Personal Stories, Relationship-focused, Social Support, Stress Mgmt, Travel, Washington
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“Failure To Communicate“ – spoken by “The Captain“, the domineering prison warden played by Strother Martin in the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke.
During my visit to Ge......
2009/06/14
Behaviors and Patterns, Challenge and Opportunity, Chronic Illness, Communication, Community, Coping, Local Resources, Lupus, Oregon, Research, Social Support, Washington
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“Should I stay or should I go now?
Should I stay or should I go now?
If I go there will be trouble
An’ if I stay it will be double
So come on and let me know” (The Clash, alb......
2009/06/04
Advocacy, Autoimmune Diseases & Syndromes, Chronic Illness, Coping, Events, Fibromyalgia, Guest Blogger, Lupus, MLWT, Oregon, Personal Stories, Resources, Social Support, Strategies, Treatment Approaches and Perspectives, Washington, Work and Career
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I want to send out a warm-hearted “Thank You! “ to all of the wonderful people who contributed to our first annual “Our Voices for Lupus Awareness” guest blogging event ......
2009/05/31
Books, Challenge and Opportunity, Chronic Illness, Coping, Diagnosis, Events, Guest Blogger, Labs & Testing, Lupus, MLWT, Oregon, Personal Stories, Social Support, Strategies, Treatment Approaches and Perspectives, Washington
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I am so excited to present my blogging friend Sara as our final Guest Blogger for MLWT’s ” Our Voices For Lupus Awareness ” event this May. I have been reading her blog for mo......
