Archive for July, 2008
Do you think that living with a chronic illness makes you unemployable – because you can’t possibly work the long hours that are expected in America’s workplace?
Not long ago, I blogged on this topic on my other blog, Keep Working Girlfriend. It got some interesting responses. One reader was motivated to research [...]
Sometimes you make mistakes
One of the tenets of blogging is to use real examples so people can see your experience and relate to what you’re saying. The thinking being that’s what brings and keeps readers. But there’s a fine line between using real life examples and lifting someone’s story. And I stepped over the line [...]
What do you REALLY want?
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Plans can help you unstuck
Are you stuck when you think about getting a job? Because, when you do, it seems as if chronic illness shuts every door?
Or maybe you’re wondering if you should stay at your job or think about something else? But chronic illness makes it all seem too complicated?
While working with a client recently, a light bulb went off around [...]
I think these are worth paying attention to because they each uncover information that goes beyond one illness – and might hold some links to how we can live more ‘productive’ lives.
In this recent study ( Mechanism behind Mind-Body Connection Explains How Chronic Stress Ages Immune System), the researchers have identified some factors that might explain [...]
There are times that we can’t help but wonder what our lives might have been if only . .. .
I woke this morning with this thought on my mind: If it hadn’t been for chronic illness, my career would have been very different. Would it have been more satisfying?
Don’t get me wrong. I [...]
Lemonade anyone?
In an interview this afternoon, a reporter asked if my book, Women, Work and Autoimmune Disease: Keep Working Girlfriend! (co-authored with Joan Friedlander) is the result of my own ambition to be a writer. And did I plan to write more? My first response was, “You’re kidding, aren’t you?”
I found writing a book to [...]
For today’s post, I interviewed Diana Lee, Somebody Heal Me: The Musings of a Chronic Migraineur. Diana’s story of living with pain is typical for many of us who have had life altering chronic illness. She’s taken a highly creative and productive path to address it.
FYI: This month’s headache and migraine carnival hosted [...]
Are you using social media?
(I’m posting late this week because I’ve been struggling with wordpress to get an image in – sometimes this system just locks things out. So frustrating.)
You heard it here first: the meteoric rise of social media is the best breakthrough for working people with chronic illness since … the internet. It saves you time and [...]
Independence Day for whom?
Several recent Supreme Court rulings have upset me lately but now I have another court in another country to direct anger towards. (Is that good news? I don’t think so!)
Last week, the Supreme Court of Canada erased what was a landmark decision award to an employee of Honda Canada who has chronic fatigue [...]
