Many people are misdiagnosed or dismissed for years before finding clarity and being accurately diagnosed. These questions are here to help you check in with your own experience and learn to identify the ways in which your story isn’t believed by health providers.  Once you’ve been able to experience and identify trends or circumstances, it […]

When we live with chronic illness, our minds can become echo chambers of worry. The same thoughts cycle, especially when answers are scarce or the pain is invisible. This rumination is fueled by brain networks which gets stuck in high gear under stress (Andrews-Hanna et al., 2014). But when we engage in creative expression—even the […]

Living with chronic illness can feel like you’re constantly being pulled out of yourself—your body hurting, your emotions flooding or shutting down, your mind racing or going blank. Dr. Janina Fisher, a trauma therapist and teacher, has helped thousands of people understand that these intense ups and downs aren’t signs that you’re broken—they’re survival strategies. […]

  There is a delicate balance I’ve been trying to lean into for most of my life—the space between heart and mind, between what I know deeply in my bones and what I can explain with reason and research. It’s not always an easy balance. The heart speaks in whispers, in symbols, in sensations that […]