by Callie | Jan 18, 2019 | chronic disease, chronic illness, diagnosis, Healing
Traditional vs. Functional Medicine I recently saw my integrative medical doctor, also called a functional doctor, and many of you reached out asking to know more about the experience, thus an entire blog post on integrative medicine. You are likely used to a...
by Callie | Nov 27, 2018 | chronic disease, chronic illness, diagnosis, encouragement, Grief, Healing, health anxiety, Interstitial Cystitis, suicidal thoughts
I recently asked all of you what you wanted to hear more about over here on River and Quill and you told me anxiety and depression, so here we go! Let’s discuss the joy killing, life stealing duo, shall we? Before we begin, though, I have read some comments...
by Callie | Jul 24, 2018 | chronic disease, chronic illness, diagnosis, discouragement, encouragement, Grief, Healing, health anxiety, hope, Interstitial Cystitis, writing
It’s About Time I’ve done a few guest posts lately, where I explain my story through an interview with the authors, and it just dawned on me I have never told you the full story here, on my own blog. Whoops! (btw – there is a great River and Quill...
by Callie | Jan 22, 2018 | chronic disease, chronic illness, diagnosis, discouragement, encouragement, Healing, hope, Interstitial Cystitis
In the past week, I have had several people ask me for advice on dealing with Interstitial Cystitis. I took that as a sign that I really need to have a comprehensive post where I direct you to other articles on the topic, as well as discuss what I recommend, after...
by Callie | Nov 9, 2017 | chronic disease, chronic illness, diagnosis, discouragement, encouragement, Grief, hope
This is part two of my series on grief as it exists within chronic disease. If you missed Part 1, please click here. All caught up? Great! Let’s move on. 3. Bargaining (1 and 2 in Part 1 – see above) Let’s Make a Deal The next stage in grief, according...
by Callie | Nov 2, 2017 | chronic disease, chronic illness, diagnosis, discouragement, encouragement, Grief, hope
Grief is a passenger. This is weird because all of a sudden you have this stranger sitting next to you. You have no idea who you just picked up. It could be this sweatheart of a guy who is going to help you recover from this ordeal in the easiest and smoothest of...
