Category Archives: Self-Care

Making Note of Lyme Disease Awareness this May

As we come to a close this May, I wanted to make special mention of a disease that is often misunderstood and lumped in with lupus in the diagnostic stages.  I was initially told I had Lyme when......

Summertime, Summertime, uh, oh, Summertime ♫

Today we are hosting Patients For A Moment (PFAM) and the theme was to divulge the wishes, dreams, goals and plans for the summer months ahead.  I’m noticing a slow-down in PFAM participation an......

PFAM is here for May 25th!

Okay, I am amazed that we are already in mid-May.  Thanks to Leslie at  Getting Closer To Myself   for reminding me to get going on calls for submissions.  I will be hosting the next Patients F......

Today is National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day

I am pleased to introduce author and pain archeologist, Sue Ingebretson, as our guest for today.  You may already know her from her website Rebuilding Wellness and/or from her book, FibroWHYalg......

It is World Lupus Day – got your armor on?

  If you are living with lupus, or know someone who is, you will undoubtedly come across references to it live or via internet.  Over the last three years of MLWT, I have watched the presence of......

Perspective on Me, Myself and I

Here we are in the middle of April and, thankfully here in Oregon, the sun is beginning to give us a little break from the gray and rain.  Boy, will our bones love that, huh?  Even though Spring......

Sowing our days, one plant at a time

I am a gardener.  Not a master gardener, by any means, but a gardener nonetheless.  Every spring (most often determined by the calendar than the weather these days), I get busy prepping for the......

National Women’s History Month 2011

When I put together my latest piece for The Lupus Magazine this month, I completely spaced the fact that March is the month for celebrating women.  I was focused on the fact that it was my birth......

Applying the brakes and taking back the wheel

  If you had asked me in January whether I realized how much my 2011 goal of  catching up would bring on a domino effect leaving me buried still into February, I would’ve scoffed…and you ......

Moving away from stuffing feelings and more towards stocking stuffers

Every now and then, I will come across something that is so simple yet so powerful that it astounds me.  It is easy to get carried away and overwhelmed with the holiday season.  It seems like e......

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