What I Wish I Could Have Told My Newly Diagnosed Self
Hey. I know you’re feeling a lot of emotions right now, a lot of emotions that might not make sense for a while. You probably don’t want to listen to anything else because you feel like you’re drowning in new words and the world you once knew is breaking into pieces. But I need you […]
Denial and Acceptance After a Chronic Illness Diagnosis
For a really, really long time, I hid who I was and what I was going through. I hoped that playing pretend could somehow just make it all go away. I loved playing pretend when I was little. In my mind, I could be anything I wanted – a school teacher, a broadway star, a […]
