If you struggle with a mood disorder/mental illness (depression, anxiety, bipolar, PTSD, phobias, ect.) you are part of the chronic illness community.  Often times, people with mental illnesses are overlooked. You get more understanding and sympathy from having a broken arm or heart attack than you do for having to live with ongoing mental health issues. 

As chronically ill people, we may struggle with forgiving friends who abandon us, family members who were absent or uncaring and a whole lot more. Let's get into it. 

Do you have any spiritual practices that help you cope with your chronic illness? Has having a chronic illness helped to strengthen your faith or weaken it? We'll talk about that and more on this episode of Chronically Creative. 

In this 2 part series, we will discuss how spirituality helps us cope with our chronic illness. We will also explore how our faith has been tested or changed because of chronic sickness. Stay tuned...

Limitations. Friend or foe? 

Easy does it. It's been a crazy year. Now with a new start, how can we make each day just a little better while living in such a crazy world? 

Sometimes animals can be very helpful and therapeutic in helping us deal with our chronic illness. However, on the flip side, they can also add a great deal of stress to your life if you are not ready or capable of caring for it. 

The holidays can be tough for people with chronic illnesses.  A word on that in this short and sweet episode. 

I'll talk a little bit about what MCAS is and how I have experienced it in my life.  

We have a new President, which is reason to hope and I'll talk a little about mast cell activation syndrome, depression and anxiety.