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 | Apr 30, 2023 | acceptance, chronic disease, chronic illness, chronic pain, creative, creativity, encouragement, Forest Therapy, Grief, Healing
It’s funny. When I healed from my illness, I thought that was it. I thought that was my one true, golden lesson in the inevitable suffering of humanity. I thought I was going to emerge victorious from my pain and yay – hooray – hazah! for the wisdom and...
by Callie | Jul 18, 2019 | chronic disease, chronic illness, encouragement
https://media.blubrry.com/chronicallywell/p/content.blubrry.com/chronicallywell/GiveMeABreak.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS Sometimes we choose a pause. Sometimes it’s forced upon us. For those of us with chronic...
by Callie | Mar 22, 2019 | chronic disease, discouragement, encouragement, Healing
I’m in the first round of an edit of my book and having to wander back to the space I was in when I was first diagnosed with Interstitial Cystitis (IC). Ernest Hemingway said, “There is nothing to writing. You just sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”1 And indeed, I...
by Callie | Feb 16, 2019 | acceptance, chronic disease, encouragement, Grief
http://media.blubrry.com/chronicallywell/p/content.blubrry.com/chronicallywell/Ep3Don_tAcceptYourNewNormal.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Google Podcasts | RSS There is a phrase used by the multitudes and I am calling for its extinction. I hate...
by Callie | Jan 23, 2019 | chronic disease, chronic illness, encouragement, Healing, writing
I am asked, quite frequently, how I keep up with being a mom, writing a blog, and working part time as a school psychologist. The simple answer is: I don’t. I fail at every responsibility/job/relationship, all of the time. Daily, probably. We hold ourselves to a level...
