Archive for June, 2010
A new client, I’ll call her Judy, is in the 3rd “flare” of Hashimoto’s disease in 5 years. She told me that she learned about me when a friend forwarded my article, 5 Things I Want You to Know About Working While Living with Chronic Illness. Judy told me in our initial conversation that she [...]
Getting out from under chronic
This week’s post is part of the Monthly Career Collective Bloggers. This month’s topic is: How to Heat Up Your Job Search. Scroll down to see what my fellow writer’s suggest! Is being unemployed feeling like a chronic condition? Chronic — it’s not sexy, exciting or fun. Worse, chronic means it’s not changing and won’t [...]
What follows is an interview of Therese Borchard, blogger and author of Beyond Blue. This interview was done by Christina Gombar. Therese Borchard struggled with manic depression during college, earned a master’s degree and established a stellar career in journalism and book publishing. But the hormonal shifts of motherhood, a geographic move, as well as [...]
My Dad died last week, a month before turning 90. Please. Hold your comments of sympathy. I’m not writing for that (although I’m sure your intentions are kind). I’m writing to share what I’ve learned and to create discussion that helps us learn from each other. Dad’s first “small” stroke, at age 72, was the [...]
