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living lessons: life with chronic illness (lesson #3 )

surrendering should never be confused with sinking. when we surrender, we humbly recognize our powerlessness; when we sink, we abandon our agency to do anything about it. to surrender is to give ourselves permission to accept unpleasant circumstances because they are happening whether we like it or not. to sink however, is to ultimately give ourselves passive permission to witness our own self-destruction. what strikes me most in both scenarios is the inherent giving process found in each. in the case of giving in and surrendering, the gift is born of self-compassion and hope. whereas giving up and sinking is a gift born of release when we can no longer entertain an alternative - not because there isn’t one, but rather the water has tragically become too murky to see it. may we all give to ourselves wisely. may we all feel the softening of a surrender and not the sabotage of a sink. and in the end, may we all choose a life that is lovingly livable.

#ChronicIllness #Depression #SuicidalThoughts #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #Anxiety #Trauma #Suicide #ChronicFatigue #Grief #MentalHealth #PTSD #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #AutoimmuneThyroidDisease #Disability #IfYouFeelHopeless #Undiagnosed #ChronicPain

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living lessons: life with chronic illness (lesson #2 )

in a world that’s perfectly packaged in black and white, it’s easy to convince ourselves we are either this or that, broken or whole, capable or incapable. there can be great comfort in this cocoon. by doing so though, we prevent the peace of the paradox which allows (and in fact insists on) room for both/and. when we learn to greet the greys, a whole world can open up to us and for us. what colors will you see today? 🖤🤍💖

#ChronicIllness #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigue #Depression #Anxiety #IfYouFeelHopeless #Grief #MentalHealth #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #Undiagnosed #ChronicPain #Trauma #Disability

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living lessons: life with chronic illness (lesson #1 )

hi fellow mighties. this is my first post in a new series i created based on my experiences, both life-giving and life-draining, since being struck by a debilitating disease 2 ½ years ago. i’m quite far from being an expert on chronic illness (is anybody ever?) but my life will forever be altered into before and after. let’s just say i am certainly still figuring out after. in the meantime, i hope any sentiments i can share offer some support and solace to others walking the same path. sometimes it just helps to know you’re not alone. sometimes it just helps to know there are others in the same situation who have learned not just to survive but thrive. and sometimes, just sometimes, we can find helping hearts along the way who are willing to weave some love and light into our lives if we find the courage and vulnerability to let them in. feel free to share this with someone who needs to hear it

#ChronicIllness #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #Depression #Anxiety #ChronicFatigue #IfYouFeelHopeless #Grief #MentalHealth #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #ChronicPain #Undiagnosed #Trauma #Disability

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I don't have anyone i want to share this with because I don't want my family to feel sorry for me or to worry them, so I'm sharing on here.
Things were finally starting to look bright for me. I'm seeking medical and mental attention and I'm feeling optimistic about it. I was finally able to land a job after more than 2 months of applying and searching.
I did my taxes and was getting a "big" refund so I decided it was time to take care of a mechanical problem that my car was having. I decided to do this because I was planning on driving 12 hours to see my family. I figured once I start working i won't be able to take a whole week of as easily as I'd like to. So I took the car to the mechanic and got the problem fixed. Unfortunately he said there are other things that are wrong with the car and to try to not drive the car as much. It's just under 3k for those repairs. Practically the worth of the car.
Now I'm feeling devastated that I won't be able to see my family. I'm also now having to worry about my car giving out while I'm driving to and from work.
I try to see the good in things, I could have still driven the car as it was, but maybe it would have giving out in the middle of nowhere. I'm seeing it as a blessing in disguse but it still sucks and I'm sad that I won't be seeing my family soon.
Now I'll have to save up to move out and save up to either buy a car or fix it.
#MentalHealth
#IfYouFeelHopeless
#MightyTogether

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Some Words You Might Need to Hear

You are not too much. You were just never met with enough.

You are not weak for feeling everything so deeply. That is your strength, not your flaw.

You didn’t deserve what happened to you. Even if someone made you believe you did.

Some people will never understand your pain, because they never had to survive what you did. That doesn’t make your story any less real.

It is okay to miss people who hurt you. Missing is not the same as returning.

You’re allowed to walk away from people who once meant the world to you. That doesn’t make you heartless. It makes you brave.

You’re not falling behind. You’re healing in a world that doesn’t know how to slow down.

You are not the bad guy just because someone else decided to rewrite the story.

There is no shame in needing help. There is no weakness in asking for support.

You are not broken. You are becoming.

You don’t need to explain your pain to everyone. Some people will never get it. That doesn’t mean you’re wrong for feeling it.

You’ve survived 100% of your worst days. That counts for something.

You don’t owe healing to the people who hurt you. You owe it to yourself.

You are allowed to take up space, to rest, to cry, to be loud, to feel joy again.

You are not alone.

You are worth loving. Even now. Especially now.

And if no one has told you lately: I’m proud of you. I’m glad you’re here.

#MentalHealth #IfYouFeelHopeless #Depression

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You do not need permission for a lot of things, Let’s Talk It Out👇👇, Let’s Work It Out 👇👇, Let’s Dance It Out🙌💯💪🗞️👋🤗🤩✍🏻🧘🏻‍♀️📺

My Group, My Friends and Family, All of You:

I Am making my group a one-stop shopper experience

For shoppers for #MentalHealth

There will be great, big, helpful to you in Grand Ways conversations

There will be Real Talk and Real Empowerment And Education and Answers For You

There will be Humor, Connecting, Breathing, Hugs, Music, Friendships…

I Cannot Wait To Meet More Magnificent, Real People That Matter The Most To Me And To So Many Of Us 💯🤩🙌💛🌻☀️

#Mindfulness #Depression #Anxiety #ChronicIllness #ADHD #MightyTogether #IfYouFeelHopeless #BipolarDisorder #Grief #Selfharm #SuicidalIdeation #SuicidalThoughts #SuicideAttemptSurvivors #Suicide #ComplexPosttraumaticStressDisorder #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #Fibromyalgia #PTSD #PostTraumaticStressDisorder #Trauma #MadeVisible #ChronicPain

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Doubt….. Fear…… Determination.

I want to celebrate 🎉 my Mighty Friends that Are Actually, Really—they told me so🙌🙌🙌 Building Something Great and Kicking To The Curb Doubt that keeps wanting to creep into our mindset And Fear that wants to hold us back and control us…

This Day, Your HUGE Transformations, is All Partly Because of the choices I empowered you with that you reached out to me too to guide you in how to use the tools and techniques I teach in my group titled Resilience and Mindfulness that is another body of work of love and friendship of mine that I am also So Proud of!!!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌

Here, I am wanting All of us to Cheer for You and You… 💯💪🏆🏆🤩💛💛🙌🙌🙌🙌🎊🎊🎉🎈🎁🪅👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🍾

I 💛 my new friends and my group and All Mighties soooooooo much!!

Woohoo!!!!!!

And if you are not yet following me on here and if you aren’t participating in my group posts in the important conversations I keep creating for YOU, what are you waiting for?— Call to Action (as we said in my college Marketing degree and my Advertising and Marketing jobs:
Click to join & follow me on The Mighty Now💛🙌💯🦋🤗

I know I am only 1 person and I am only 1 part of this Amazing community and I am grateful for All that we All do Everyday Together.

Who agrees that we all make The Mighty Mightier and the Best Online Community Platform and Social Space Ever?!💯🙌💛💪🤩🦋

#MentalHealth #Mindfulness #MightyTogether #Depression #Anxiety #SocialAnxiety #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #MajorDepressiveDisorder #MDD #PersistentDepressiveDisorder #MoodDisorders #SuicidalIdeation #SuicidalThoughts #Selfharm #SuicideAttemptSurvivors #Suicide #IfYouFeelHopeless #FamilyAndFriends #Relationships #ChronicIllness #Disability #ChronicFatigue #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #ChronicPain #Headache #Migraine #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #PTSD #ComplexPosttraumaticStressDisorder #Trauma #MadeVisible

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Topic/Question Just for Fun and Connection 🙌🙌

To help encourage us to remember that we are more than our chronic illness(es) or any diagnosis, and to remember that we Are building friendships right here -

In the spirit of the current, Biggest, Buzz-Worthy, Trending Topic, MOVIES awards show airing Sunday night the Oscars🙌🤩🏆🍿🎥🎬

Let’s use this post all weekend Starting Now And And Into Next Week to connect through the art, power, storytelling, …and your particular views on any film. I will keep it as wide-ranged as that for a fun, varied, connecting conversation back and forth below 👇 in the comments!

#Loneliness #Grief #DistractMe #FamilyAndFriends #Relationships #IfYouFeelHopeless #Depression #Anxiety #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #MajorDepressiveDisorder #DepressiveDisorders #PersistentDepressiveDisorder #MoodDisorders #MDD #Agoraphobia #MentalHealth #MightyTogether #ADHD #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #ChronicIllness #IntellectualDisability #AutismSpectrumDisorder #MyCondition #RareDisease #ChronicPain #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #ChronicFatigue #Migraine #Selfharm #Selfcare #Mindfulness #SuicidalIdeation #SuicidalThoughts #SuicideAttemptSurvivors #Suicide #ComplexPosttraumaticStressDisorder #PTSD #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #PostTraumaticStressDisorder #PsoriaticArthritis #Trauma #Cancers #AlopeciaAreata #AuditoryProcessingDisorder #CerebralPalsy #BipolarDisorder #DownSyndrome #Addiction #Lupus #HashimotosThyroiditis #AutoimmuneThyroidDisease #BipolarDepression #HypothyroidismUnderactiveThyroidDisease #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #AutonomicDysfunction #ParkinsonsDisease #PosturalOrthostaticTachycardiaSyndrome #POTS #EatingDisorders #AnorexiaNervosa #BingeEatingDisorder #Dyspraxia #BrainInjury #MotorDisorders

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To All of The Mighty- In case someone hasn’t told you this already 💯🤩🦋🧘🏻‍♀️💪 This quote image is what I am saying to EACH of YOU.

🙌 Yes!!

Yep, I am Also your confidence booster!
&
Your cheerleader ( 📣 🙃🤭🙌🙌 another fun fact about me - I was the first freshman in my high school to make the Varsity football cheerleading squad And I Also was a cheerleading coach in high school for junior high school kids And I did all of that while also teaching dance and helping to run a dance school in high school too, while also continuing my own dance training daily because my first love since the age of 3 has always been the beautiful art of dance- or like one of my all time favorite Professional dance companies that I paid to see live in NYC was called- “Shaping Sound”.

Yeah, I Really miss those days of Energy.

These days, if I have any energy or let’s say the infrequent but still a huge gift of having more than a little energy, it’s funny in that I can recognize the immense difference in a blink of an eye.

Oh, yeah, and about the badass part of this quote image 👆
Not having energy and still doing all that I do, That is what makes me Badass, is how I look at it- after straightening out my Perspective and Reframing my Headspace.
And honestly without my onset of major depressive disorder at age 34 (I am now 52), I would never have really achieved Becoming Badass! And, I always admired Badass people of all kinds.

Always remember this whole hard thing called life and life transitions requires us to take on new, healthier Perspectives Always, And this is what I learned from the Headspace app is also called “Reframing” (best app in the world, at least when I used it daily in 2017 - 2019)

And I have specific, Large, photo album folders on my phone - 1 titled “Reframing Headspace” from my saved key takeaways from each Headspace course lesson I took (that Of Course I will be sharing with you in my group Resilience and Mindfulness) and I have another specific, Large, photo album folder titled “Perspectives” that Of Course I will be sharing with you in my group titled Resilience and Mindfulness)

To anyone seeing this post outside of my group - here is the direct link Resilience and Mindfulness and Join Us for So Much & because literally Everyone needs to learn both Resilience and Mindfulness (and, I don’t stop there with what goodies I share To Help YOU 😁🙃)

#MightyTogether #MentalHealth #ChronicFatigue #ChronicIllness #Disability #Anxiety #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #MajorDepressiveDisorder #DepressiveDisorders #Selfharm #SocialAnxiety #ADHD #Agoraphobia #MDD #MoodDisorders #MultipleSclerosis #IfYouFeelHopeless #MyCondition #CheerMeOn #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #OtherMentalHealth #MotorDisorders #ChronicPain #Mindfulness #Selfcare #FamilyAndFriends #Relationships #AnorexiaNervosa #EatingDisorders #BingeEatingDisorder #Arthritis #BipolarDisorder #BipolarDepression #Fibromyalgia #Caregiving #Cancer #CrohnsDisease #DownSyndrome #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #Epilepsy #Addiction #Lupus #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #CerebralPalsy #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder

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Resilience and Mindfulness | An Online Health Community

I am going to break down into pieces a lot of notes I have to share from Positive Psychology: Resilience Skills Course Audited -by University of Pennsylvania + More Supports For Wellbeing Some concepts I hope to add to your cognitive skills toolkit and vocabulary are: *Learning how to incorporate *resilience interventions*-*protective factors*, *cognitive strategies*, *develop mental agility*, increase positive emotion, *decrease anxiety*, and *take control of thinking traps*, and *learning the critical skill of optimism, as well as *taking a deeper dive into the cognitive skills and wellbeing mindset of mindfulness living. Resilience can help protect you from mental health conditions, such as depression and anxiety. Resilience also can help you deal with and be better prepared for other truly hard things in life. Research has also shown the effectiveness of mindfulness as an intervention in recurrent depression and there is so much more to this state of mind.
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