by Callie | Jul 15, 2017 | chronic disease, chronic illness, creative, creativity, hope, Uncategorized
My husband and I have lived in our house for four and a half years and I am finally painting our bedroom. I hate painting. I hate painting trim the most. I hate priming the trim even more. I was considering my dark feelings toward the process and I came to...
by Callie | Jul 13, 2017 | beautiful, chronic disease, chronic illness, creative, creativity, diagnosis, discouragement, encouragement, Grief, hope, Uncategorized
It seems obvious, but half of the terrible things you go through as someone with a chronic disease are caused by other people. And that’s sad. Rather sad. Ruthlessly sad. One should not have to prove their pain, and yet, most of us with chronic disease have had...
by Callie | Jul 8, 2017 | beautiful, chronic disease, chronic illness, creative, creativity, discouragement, encouragement, hope, Uncategorized
I brought my kids over to make “pigs in a blanket” at my grandparents’ this week. They played with giant bubbles, rode on my mom’s rocking horse from the 1950’s, and ran around the billiard table my grandpa keeps in the basement amongst items from a bygone era. On one...
by Callie | Jul 7, 2017 | chronic disease, chronic illness, creative, creativity, CSF Leak, diagnosis, discouragement, encouragement, hope, suicidal thoughts, suicide
As I was scrolling through Facebook yesterday, I was caught by a post someone had left on my husband’s cousin’s page. It was the most beautifully crafted support of a friend. In it, the author, Farzeen, discussed the injury my “cousin-in-law”...
by Callie | Jul 3, 2017 | beautiful, chronic disease, chronic illness, creative, creativity, diagnosis, discouragement, encouragement, hope, Uncategorized
Friends. How are you doing? Let’s talk… Since I wrote my last post on discouragement, it seems I have let loose a little jackass in my brain who is running around, wreaking havoc on all hopes and aspirations. He’s finding every neural passageway identified...
by Callie | Jun 27, 2017 | chronic disease, chronic illness, creative, creativity, diagnosis, discouragement, encouragement, hope, suicidal thoughts, suicide
Do you ever have something inside that wants to be heard, but you can’t quite pinpoint exactly what it is that it wants to say? I have written an entire manuscript on my tumultuous affair with chronic disease and yet writing a single blog post sometimes...
