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Keeping Well Visits: Why Preventative Care Matters

January rolls in, then doctor visits count starts again for plenty of folks. Costs you pay pile up from zero, old referral notes turn useless, just like that, new maze of steps waits ahead. Here’s a thought I keep returning...

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Winter and Chronic Illness: Why Symptoms Flare and What Might Help

Cold weather might really be making those symptoms flare. Many people with autoimmune conditions see changes when temperatures drop. This shift often ties to how the body reacts to chill, yet movement and warmth sometimes help ease it. Some find...

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Winter Meals for Less Sunshine

Finding relief by spring? Not how it works when sickness sticks around. Plenty of people barely have enough vitamin D left – its impact sneaks into places most never connect. Picture sunshine stored in your body. That quiet helper does...

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A Calm and Gentle New Year’s Eve for Those with Little Energy

New Year’s Eve gets pictured one way: noisy, long nights, full of cheer shaped just so. Think shiny paper falling through air. Bubbles in tall glasses. Clocks ticking down at midnight like every person must be awake, eating, drinking, racing...

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Saving Spoons in January: A Gentler Start to the New Year

Cold air comes in alongside calendars full of promises. Tossing lights into boxes. Shifting back to old rhythms. Writing down what should happen. Handling tasks left behind when holidays took over. For those living with ongoing health struggles, this time...

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Creating a Truly Inclusive Holiday Gathering

Again, the holiday season comes around, bringing with it the never-ending invitations to gatherings. But you, as the host this year, have the power to provide the space for those living with a chronic illness to actually be a part...

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15 Ways to Infuse the Magic of Christmas into a Life Behind Hospital Walls

Christmas can be a very difficult holiday to bear if someone you love has to spend it in a hospital room by your side. The sights, sounds, and scents that would normally accompany this holiday are replaced by sounds of...

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Rethinking Christmas Cookies: A Time When Your Body Doesn’t Tolerate Them Like it Used To

One of the ways in which I was brought up to celebrate Christmas was through Christmas cookies. One of the Christmas traditions that I look back on now that I cherish is my mom making what we used to colloquially...

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This Holiday Season, It’s Okay

The holidays come with this implicit to-do list that never was actually written out for you but which it seems you are expected to be in compliance with anyway. You are expected to go to all the parties. You are...

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Save Your Spoons in December

inThere’s a type of magic that comes with the month of December. The lights turn on earlier, the traditions come back, and there’s just this unspoken need to mean it. But for many, especially those dealing with chronic illnesses, loved...

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Why Night Driving Gets Harder When You're Chronically Ill - Especially After the Time Change

Most people hardly even notice the November time change when clocks fall back, and the sun begins to disappear well before dinner. For those suffering from chronic illness, autoimmune conditions, or cancer treatment, however, the change ushers in a lot...

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Why the End of Daylight Saving Time Hits Harder with Chronic Illness

Every year, people rejoice at having an "extra hour" of sleep when the clocks turn back in late November, but if you have a chronic illness (or pets or kids), that hour doesn't feel like a gift, it’s as if...

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