Tools for Healing

Frank and I often joke that managing an autoimmune disease is totally résumé-worthy.  All the skills employers love to see are all there: Working with difficult people (aka doctors)?  Check. Critical thinking and problem-solving?  Are you kidding me?  Reversing autoimmune disease is like solving the world’s most complicated puzzle, and the pieces can move! Project…

We are doomed right from the start. The process of receiving an autoimmune disease diagnosis is long, frustrating, painful, and draining. It all begins when our health starts to deteriorate.  We ignore it for a bit, thinking it will pass like a cold or sore muscle.  (It doesn’t.) Eventually, we head to the doctor, hoping…

Here’s what we all want our recovery from autoimmune disease to look like: And here’s what autoimmune disease recovery actually looks like: It doesn’t matter who you are, what kind of doctor you work with, or how much money you have – there is no such thing as a linear healing process.  We all want…