by Callie | Aug 24, 2023 | beautiful, chronic disease, chronic illness, discouragement, Divorce, encouragement
https://media.blubrry.com/chronicallywell/content.blubrry.com/chronicallywell/lettertoself.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS You can. You don’t have to believe me. I didn’t believe myself, and yet I managed to find...
by Callie | Jul 30, 2018 | beautiful, chronic disease, chronic illness, creative, creativity, encouragement, Healing, hope, writing
The End of a Chapter I recently completed the last page of a journal I’ve had since my illness began in 2015. I realize this is a long time to be writing in the same journal, but I tend to write more on my Mac these days, and use my journal as more of a “quote...
by Callie | May 29, 2018 | beautiful, chronic disease, chronic illness, creative, creativity, Healing, hope, suicidal thoughts, writing
I woke up this morning at 9:00. The last time this happened my body had yet been unscathed by children. It was weird and wonderful (sleeping in, but yeah, also having children: so wonderful, so weird). I forgot about that feeling you get when you have acquired more...
by Callie | Mar 9, 2018 | beautiful, chronic disease, chronic illness, discouragement, encouragement, Grief, Healing, health anxiety, hope
I am writing this as a bit of an update. The past few months have been a struggle. As someone with severe health anxiety, when I experience symptoms of any kind, I retreat into my shell, which means, when it comes to writing, well, there isn’t much of it. There is...
by Callie | Dec 30, 2017 | beautiful, chronic disease, chronic illness, creative, creativity, discouragement, encouragement, Grief, hope, writing
The New Year. This is the time we are supposed to reflect on the year past, considering all we lived well, and regenerating our mistakes into well thought out goals for next year. Sometimes I think my goals are just a way to satisfy the cognitive dissonance between...
by Callie | Dec 8, 2017 | beautiful, chronic disease, chronic illness, creative, creativity, discouragement, encouragement, Grief, hope, writing
We made it. We’ve cruised through grief (more like bumped, and skidded, and shredded our way through, but still), and we’re at the final stage, which is acceptance. Now, remember, these are purely my adulterations of Dr. Kubler-Ross’s stages of grief, conformed to...
