The Ongoing Chronicle
This chronicle grows with every new moment I choose to share. If you’re looking for the most recent piece of the journey, you’ll find it here — the latest story, fresh from the road I’m still traveling.
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Fingers Crossed: Part Two
addiction, career, chronicillness, chronicpain, community, counselling, curiosity, diagnosis, disabilities, disability, entrepreneur, family, gratitude, gravedigger, gravesdisease, grief, groundskeeper, health, hoarding, hoardingdisorder, hope, inspiration, kindness, life, love, mental-health, positivity, recovery, relationships, relief, rheumatoidarthritis, service, sharing, smallbusiness, support, therapy, uncertainty, unconditionallove, understanding, volunteer, workFor those that have read my first “Fingers Crossed” blog entry, I thank you. I wrote it a very long time ago and it describes the beginnings of my diagnosis journey with Rheumatoid Arthritis and my experience with Fibromyalgia. When I wrote it, I was a bit younger. My conditions were not as well managed…
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Magoo – I’m sorry I didn’t see it.
anxiety, books, chronic, clutter, clutterer, compassion, depression, disorder, dsm-5, fear, fiction, friendship, grief, help, hoarder, hoarders, hoarding, hoarding behavior, hoarding disorder, kindness, life, mental-health, mindfullness, motivational, short-story, support, therapy, trauma, unconditional love, wellness, writingThis blog is dedicated to the memory of someone I knew and loved. It involves a traumatic personal experience and is a real life example of mental illness. The story is explicitly written from my personal perspective and I purposefully avoided the use of the names of the other people in my life at the…
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As one does, I’ve been having weird conversations with friends. I speak a lot about recovery and my chronic illnesses but honestly that’s not who I am as a person, they are afflictions or parts of me that I focus heavily on because they are important to me. I have a very difficult time gauging…
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