A Chronic Voice

How Do You Cope with the Holiday Season as a Person with Chronic Illness & What are Your Best Tips? (Click on link on my bio to share.)⠀ .⠀ Those of us with chronic illness and disability often face additional challenges during the holiday season due to our limited energy. Our regular pacing strategies might go right out the window during this period.⠀ .⠀ Share what your experience during the holiday season typically is like, and what your best tips are for coping, especially during this year that has mostly been in lockdown mode. Your responses may be published to the blog!⠀ .⠀ #holidayseason #chronicillness #disability https://www.instagram.com/p/CHHgw0osPIn/?igshid=105wlw2tvj3jj

May your week flow 💕⠀ .⠀ Repost @_mindfullyfresh with @get_repost Featuring @worry__lines https://www.instagram.com/p/CHFSNiGsYk6/?igshid=1rct1vlhe2ny1

[New Post] Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts. Don't forget to check out the other two parts to this series as well! (Click on link on my bio to read the post.)⠀ .⠀ "These are real life mini interviews, from actual people who live with a chronic illness or disability. You will see that apart from chronic pain, overwhelming fatigue and the accompanying payback down time is a huge deterrent for many.” https://www.instagram.com/p/CHDDtgmjIRi/?igshid=cqr7rad8abyf

[New Post] Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts. Don't forget to check out the other two parts to this series as well! (Click on link on my bio to read the post.)⠀ .⠀ "These are real life mini interviews, from actual people who live with a chronic illness or disability. You will see that apart from chronic pain, overwhelming fatigue and the accompanying payback down time is a huge deterrent for many.” https://www.instagram.com/p/CHDDtgmjIRi/?igshid=cqr7rad8abyf

"I believe that competition amongst spoonies is ridiculous. We’re outnumbered as it is, and need to respect each other’s perspectives, believe in each other’s pain, and not become the society whom we claim is ableist and abusive. To sum that up with a quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: 'Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you'." (Click on the link on my bio to read full post, or visit: buff.ly/2HHmfds) https://www.instagram.com/p/CG3tOAADgTp/?igshid=1x34vrhb7etm

[New Post] With men less likely to speak up about chronic pain, their emotions and anything deemed overly ‘sensitive’, it is always worth a celebratory cheer when one takes the courage to do so. These men are helping to break societal stigmas of what’s categorised as ‘unmasculine’. No feelings are invalid; we are all human beings who experience a wide and profound array of emotions, men included. (Read the post at: bit.ly/isaacsyndrome) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGz2NaFLcCW/?igshid=1h1mtd6ouo21e

."We’ve also started an Instagram account, @cispfriends where we’re featuring spoonies, their medical conditions, stories and accounts. Anyone is welcome to be featured, whether they’re part of our Facebook Group or not....if you want to be featured too, drop us an email at: [email protected] (We might take a while to respond and get your post up because we’re chronically ill too, just like you 😉 )". (Click on the link on my bio to read the full post!) https://www.instagram.com/p/CG1NLX7jmEK/?igshid=sg4amp140vl5

I love all of Khalil Gibran's works and poems ♥️ How beautiful is this. Don't chain love up; let it flow free and wild, in all its natural glory and fierce beauty. ⠀ .⠀ Repost @atribeofwomen with @get_repost https://www.instagram.com/p/CGvc1lZsCVI/?igshid=m50fmb35trgw

"There is a difference between ‘producing’ and ‘productivity’, though. What I think I’m doing: producing. What people think I’m busy with: productivity. What I’m actually doing: producing without prioritising and self-care and therefore, the exact opposite concept of productivity." (Click on link on my bio to read the post, "The Savagery of Panic Attacks & The Saving Grace of Internet Friends". Or visit: bit.ly/panicfriends) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGuUcn0Ddfh/?igshid=bhqosznf5ni7

Happy Friday to all! Keyword: Joy. The deep, authentic kind 💕⠀ .⠀ Repost @hopeyouhaveawonderfulday_ with @get_repost 🎨 by @apeaceofwerk⁣ https://www.instagram.com/p/CGr6RgWAZNL/?igshid=1u4rvflt3do87

No matter what you're feeling mood wise, physically or otherwise, you are still whole like the moon through its phases. Maybe not quite visible right now, but your wholeness is always there. ⠀ .⠀ #Repost @ceciliamoonart with @get_repost https://www.instagram.com/p/CGpcTu_rFuP/?igshid=14mdao25e9jg2

[New Post] Didn't think I'd make it for the October linkup, but here it is 🤗⠀ ...⠀ "There is a difference between ‘producing’ and ‘productivity’, though. What I think I’m doing: producing. What people think I’m busy with: productivity. What I’m actually doing: producing without prioritising and self-care and therefore, the exact opposite concept of productivity." https://www.instagram.com/p/CGmuKg3AKFi/?igshid=1akaz4sp9crcm

How's everyone? We'll get through it all eventually ♥️⠀ .⠀ Repost @kieferngruen with @get_repost⠀ prompt: frog from the #moontoberweekends by @moonchildillustrations https://www.instagram.com/p/CGkL3iVlsE9/?igshid=fi04f99yxeac

Sunday mood. And for the rest of this week for that matter ♥️⠀ .⠀ Repost @iamtaniahart with @get_repost https://www.instagram.com/p/CGetgkRHXM2/?igshid=1900dxes6i14h

Talisker's first taste of a treat ever is from @kurosnacks, personally handmade by my friend Leon! Thanks for these bite-sized samples with so many flavours to pick from...Tally's spoilt for choice! But first, toilet training... 😜 https://www.instagram.com/p/CGbSfk9DVmZ/?igshid=19zidid36p964

Hump day rest day. ⠀ .⠀ #Repost @creativewannabe_ with @get_repost https://www.instagram.com/p/CGU87BLjYnT/?igshid=127bx7di7buk5

This is too cute (and true!) 💕⠀ .⠀ #Repost @mynames_ellen with @get_repost https://www.instagram.com/p/CGSKXNXA_9H/?igshid=1tba0i7rm5k41