Those who know me and/or work with me know that in the past year I have become completely enamored with the power of focusing.
Not just the book, for sure, but the practice itself.  I believe that this technique has tremendous potential for those of us who live with chronic health challenges.  Last week, Ann […]

This morning, I went to a meeting of the Association for Career Professionals - Boston to hear the executive director, Brad Harrington, of Boston College Carroll School of Management, Center for Work & Family, talk about the Protean Career.
Huh? Well for those not up to date on career theory, this […]

Last week I was talking to one of the most trusted members of my personal support team, Janet. I think of her as my spiritual coach; it’s a generic term for the role she’s played on my road to health and healing. She’s intuitive, she’s tuned in, she’s wise and also very down to earth. […]

I’m writing a book with Joan, Keep Working Girlfriend: Women, Work & Chronic Illness (yup the title of the blog). From the first written words, I’ve been engaged in this internal debate about whether to peddle it to a publisher or to “self publish”. I won’t bore you with the […]

Everyone is commenting on the Virginia Tech shootings (in the media and the blogs) and I haven’t had anything new to say. Until today, when the woman who cuts my hair, G., referred to the news, saying, “How horrible. You send your kid to school and you think he/she will be safe. […]

I feel lucky.  I always struggled with that moment when I felt that I had to say to someone I’d just met that I have disabilities from chronic illnesses.  I mean, what’s the right time?  When a new friend asks me if I can attend an event outside on a 100 degree […]

All of my life, I was a morning person. I didn’t pull “all-nighters” in college –I was probably the only one on campus getting out of bed at 6:00am.  But one result of living with chronic illness all these years is that I need a lot of sleep.  Yet, when I couldn’t drag […]

Okay. I could do this. A trip to visit my daughters in NYC for less than 24 hours. I’m finally healthy these days and there’s a good reason to go and no good reason not to go. But, for most of their lives, I was the mom who didn’t attend events unless […]

I’ve had some emails about my last post in which I referred to cancer as a chronic illness. The gist of these emails was that some people think that cancer gets “too much attention” both in funding and in the press.
Now that might not be a politically correct statement and some might even say […]

The big C, cancer, has been getting a lot of press lately. Everyone seems to be weighing in on the good, the bad and the ugly decisions that Elizabeth & John Edwards are making. I think that one encouraging piece of news is that cancer is being discussed as a chronic illness […]