Skip to content
Logo
Subscribe
  • Home
  • Food & Cooking
    • Experiences
    • Explorations
    • Ingredients
    • Reflections
    • Techniques
  • Health & Wellness
    • Mental Health
    • Physical Health
    • Chronic Illness
  • Businesss Operations
  • Podcast
    • Season 1
    • Season 2
  • Art
    • CATHARSIS – 16/16 Lagos
    • The One Eyed Kings
    • Colorful Pain
    • Prescription Pain Pills
    • Ancestral Fingers
Logo

Category: Chronic Illness

Occasionally our bodies give up on us. That can usually be noticed in times of sickness. What then happens when the body never fully heals and we are left in a new body that does not work?

  • Chronic Illness
  • Health & Wellness
  • Mental Health

Are you taking care of yourself?

June 28, 2020
Are you taking care of yourself?
If you had to rate yourself from 0 to 10 on how well you are taking care of yourself, what score would you get? Today I woke up tired. Actually, exhausted would be a more honest word. The reality is that I have been some iteration of exhausted all of this year. I do not […]

Keep reading

  • Chronic Illness
  • Health & Wellness

Should I rest or push myself? Reflections from bed

June 2, 2020
Should I rest or push myself? Reflections from bed
On most days, I am able to hold it together and push through the task of the day. Today was not one of them. When I woke up I had to ask myself “should I rest or push myself?” Ultimately I decided to rest and that led me to feel lazy. I am finding that […]

Keep reading

  • Chronic Illness
  • Health & Wellness

Reconciling Dreams & The Reality of a Chronic Illness

May 16, 2020
Reconciling Dreams & The Reality of a Chronic Illness
The older I get, the more I am convinced that life becomes hard because of memory. On the days when I feel low it is because I compare myself to who I once was. The reality of a chronic illness is that you will observe your body change from day to day. Depending on how […]

Keep reading

  • Chronic Illness
  • Physical Health

What do chronic illness and spoons have in common?

May 14, 2020
What do chronic illness and spoons have in common?
Often times when we think of a chronic illness the image that comes to mind are older people. You may also think about conditions like high blood pressure, diabetes or cancer. Though these observations are both valid, that limits the definition and leaves out a large demographic of people. Until I developed a chronic illness, […]

Keep reading

  • Chronic Illness
  • Mental Health

I think I am having a flare up! Will I die?

May 14, 2020
I think I am having a flare up! Will I die?
I woke up today having flare up. To make it clear, a flare up refers to an exacerbation of chronic illness symptoms. In many ways I think I caused it because I started experimenting with fermented wheat again. When I did an elimination diet a few years back it was revealed to me that wheat, […]

Keep reading

Footer Logo
Thank you for stopping by 2020 Curious Findings
Logo
  • Home
  • Food & Cooking
    • Experiences
    • Explorations
    • Ingredients
    • Reflections
    • Techniques
  • Health & Wellness
    • Mental Health
    • Physical Health
    • Chronic Illness
  • Businesss Operations
  • Podcast
    • Season 1
    • Season 2
  • Art
    • CATHARSIS – 16/16 Lagos
    • The One Eyed Kings
    • Colorful Pain
    • Prescription Pain Pills
    • Ancestral Fingers