How have I let our relationship issues impact how I ask for what I need?
What ways do I limit myself or create my own obstacles?
How can I get out of my own way?
The pattern of trying to make myself smaller so that I don't have to have needs of others or rely on them is still ingrained in me after so many years of trying to change it.
This surgery highlighted that again.
Is this something you struggle with, too?

How have I let our relationship issues impact how I ask for what I need? What ways do I limit myself or create my own obstacles? How can I get out of my own way? The pattern of trying to make myself smaller so that I don't have to have needs of others or rely on them is still ingrained in me after so many years of trying to change it. This surgery highlighted that again. Is this something you struggle with, too?

Episode 277: PostOp Realness

Are you one of the millions living with a chronic illness or pain?  Our diseases may be very different, but we have many of the same experiences, obstacles and frustrations.   We are all working for a better quality of life knowing that pain and limitations will be our traveling companions.  My name is Annette and I'm the host of Chronic Wellness, a brief, weekly, podcast where we talk about it all: sex, self-care, mental heath, loss of identity, anger, how to navigate health care and have less days that suck so hard.

I have this belief that: If health is the absence of disease, and wellness is the presence of wholeness;  whether or not I'm ever "healthy" again, I can work work toward my wellness, my wholeness.  

Curious?  Join me where you listen to Podcasts, for a few moments of Chronic Wellness.

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Are you one of the millions living with a chronic illness or pain? Our diseases may be very different, but we have many of the same experiences, obstacles and frustrations. We are all working for a better quality of life knowing that pain and limitations will be our traveling companions. My name is Annette and I'm the host of Chronic Wellness, a brief, weekly, podcast where we talk about it all: sex, self-care, mental heath, loss of identity, anger, how to navigate health care and have less days that suck so hard. I have this belief that: If health is the absence of disease, and wellness is the presence of wholeness; whether or not I'm ever "healthy" again, I can work work toward my wellness, my wholeness. Curious? Join me where you listen to Podcasts, for a few moments of Chronic Wellness.

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