Category Archives: Announcements
2010/04/14
Announcements, Community, Creativity, Events, Identity, Lupus, Oregon, Personal Stories, Self-Care, Social Support, Washington
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“What we call a symbol is a term, a name, or even a picture that may be familiar in daily life, yet that possesses specific connotations in addition to its conventional and obvious meaning.” (......
2010/03/28
Announcements, Arthritis Information, Autoimmune Diseases & Syndromes, Books, Challenge and Opportunity, Chronic Illness, Community, Fibromyalgia, Lifestyle, Local Resources, Lupus, MLWT, Oregon, Outdoor Fun, Portland Metro, Scleroderma, Self-Care, Social Support, Washington, Work and Career
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Well, I took a little time off to try and gather my wits here. My to-do list grew to the point of uncontainable chaos and I know it’s because I let go of structuring my days to allow more “crea......
An announcement from our local Scleroderma Chapter:
Have You Experienced a Lifetime Cap on Your Health Insurance?
The Scleroderma Foundation is interested in speaking with scleroderma patients w......
A quick note, thanks to a reminder from Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy , about a very important day today.
Today is Kiss a Caregiver Day hosted by Caregiving.com . Take a minute and stop by thi......
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......
2009/10/12
Advocacy, Announcements, Autoimmune Diseases & Syndromes, Chronic Illness, Coping, Events, Local Resources, Oregon, Resources, Vancouver, Washington, Work and Career
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Nothing brings home the challenges of stiff, achy joints and limited mobility quite like the dampness of a good Oregon winter. We’ve been fortunate here so far in not stepping into that season......
We’ve been busy trying to find, organize, correct and place all of our information onto the new blog.
Since we had to revamp everything – meaning we couldn’t just transfer information, we had t......
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 ......
2009/09/01
Announcements, Books, Challenge and Opportunity, Chronic Illness, Events, Lupus, MLWT, Oregon, Outdoor Fun, Problem-focused, Self-Care, Social Support, Sports & Fitness, Targets, Washington
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We are beginning a group chat today about the book by Tina Vindum (2009) entitled Outdoor Fitness. You might wonder why, especially for us Oregonians, we are going to cover a book like this as......
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