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When you live with a chronic illness or disability—and experience fatigue, chronic pain, or other physical and mental symptoms—rest and recovery become necessary parts of your daily or weekly routine. Folded the laundry? Take a nap. Went to the grocery store? Stay in for the next two days. Out all week? Spend the whole weekend in bed.

We all approach recovery time differently because we have different bodies and experiences, so we’re curious: What helps you on your recovery days? How do you approach rest? What are your favorite recovery activities? And what are your rest and recovery boundaries?

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Advocating for each of our unique health circumstances requires us to put ourselves out there, share, and communicate how we’re REALLY doing with those around us. This isn’t always easy, especially in spaces with lackluster medical professionals, toxic employers, or less supportive family and friends.

What do you find most challenging when it comes to advocating for your health?

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I go through ups and downs with my relationship to food and my body. I started graduate school this semester and I have a group of friends who are skinny and attractive and lately they’ve been talking a lot about how they need/want to gain weight because they’re medically underweight.

I have a final tomorrow that I kind of studied for but I totally wasted my night because I couldn’t stop thinking about food and how gross my body is (I ate PLENTY today, believe me). I ended up making a stress ball of a pig for me to squeeze when I am craving but not hungry.

By the way, I don’t like it when people tell me “looks don’t matter” when I express concerns about my appearance because it’s just confirmation that I am ugly and this phrase is just for consolation. So please, I would rather not hear anything like that right now.

I have complicated feelings about food because I do love food and I hate it at the same time. My boyfriend is a wonderful cook and his love language is cooking for people. So I still will eat well with him. TOO well lol. I’m trying to train myself to have better self restraint when I’m not with him. He has some awareness that I am insecure about my body but I don’t talk about the details.

Seeing myself in the mirror and in pictures is emotionally and physically painful because I am so disgusting. But I haven’t tried hard enough to lose weight. I always gain it back plus some more every time. I’ve tried counting calories, drinking water when I’m craving, taking fiber to feel full, etc. I don’t like exercising or being active which makes it harder, I’m a lazy person. I’ve been watching fitness and body transformation videos for inspiration.

I don’t have like an eating disorder. I’ve told my therapist about my insecurities except for the piggy stress ball because I made it just now. She said it’s normal to feel insecure about your body. And when I said I was struggling to lose weight, she asked if I’ve looked into GLP-1s but I don’t want to take meds because I already have meds for other things.

There’s more about what goes on in my mind when it comes to food and my body, but this is already way too long lol I don’t know what to do, I hate that I can’t resist my cravings or stop thinking about food

Can today be done? My today was awful. I'd sincerely appreciate a mulligan. I burned the roof of my mouth and got a quarter size blister. My tooth is super wiggly and hurts so much. And while eating a few popcorn chicken nuggies, I got too excited and accidentally bit my hand. I'm quite talented at hurting myself. Pauley Holm is just enjoying watching her airplane friends online so she didn't notice. I kinda want to lick her face.
I'm craving pop. I really enjoy the pineapple flavor faygo. It's really yummy to mix pineapple faygo with raspberry or lime sherbet. When I was younger, my family made punch with ginger ale and strawberry sherbet for family parties. I decided to try making different flavors and combos.
UPS just came. I was like yeah I'm not expecting anything and then they rang my door. It was the big jar of CBD gummies that I ordered last week and forgot about. It's a 6k jar so it's pretty big. I ate one cuz I was coughing kinda hard and it made my migraine come back. But my back and hips still feel great. They haven't hurt since Friday morning. I'm a very happy functional puppy.
Suddenly my tummy hurts kinda bad. I think I ate too many pieces of chicken.
My mom is angry at me for not knowing what I want for my birthday. I told her I'd like a gift card for Instacart or Thrive market. I plan to make a very special dinner for Yule for me and Pauley. I'm gonna make filet mignon and lobster. She's never had lobster. It's my favorite seafood. So I want to introduce her to my favorite yummy treatos.
My tooth really hurts. 2 years ago I was headed to my girlfriend's house and eating some caramel puff corn and it broke my back left molar. Then 3 months later another chunk broke off. Then 5 months after that another chunk broke off. So I've got one fourth of a tooth and now it's wiggly and really hurts.
I've had the hiccups quite a lot today.
I got a chance to finally see the quality of my haircut and it's... not good. The front is maybe 4 different lengths. I asked for a 0 on the sides and back but she didn't do it. The front half of the top of my head, the hair is awful and a trillion lengths. I'm gonna see if my neighbor can fix it. I'm not happy.
It's been a weird couple days. I wish we had a kitty.
My heart hurts. I feel kinda sad. I wanted to celebrate my birthday.
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My tummy hurts so much. I know I'm gonna get sick. It's been gradually getting worse. I hate my body. I wish my doctor could figure out what is going on.
I did, however, make some coffee. I can't remember what flavor. But I mixed it with some hazelnut IQ Joe and cashew creamer and 4 squirts of sucralose cuz I made about 45oz. It's quite yummy but I still don't know what flavor the coffee is.
My head is pounding. I need to wake up Pauley for some eletriptan and 2 gummies. But I really don't want to. I don't want to move. I'm so tired.
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Hi, Mighty friends! 💖

How is this Monday treating you? How’s your body feeling right now? Where are you noticing pain, fatigue, or discomfort? How’s your mental health today? What’s been on your mind?

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