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This post features my interview with Laurie Erdman, holistic health and wellness coach and founder/president Chronic Wellness Coaching LLC. Q: Please share with us how you landed in this place, doing the work you do? Ans: After many unhappy years climbing the corporate and law firm career ladders, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. After [...]
Chronic illness adds complexity to even a normal life experience, like a job interview. In fact, most people find it a nerve-wracking experience. But when you have health issues that impact how you do your job, a seemingly harmless question can make you squirm. But you can be prepared and minimize the unexpected. I [...]
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 [...]
Lessons from your grandparents
Being young and living with a chronic illness – – whether it’s multiple sclerosis, ulcerative colitis, diabetes, cancer, you name it – means that you can have a lot more in common with your grandparents than your friends. At age 30, I could relate too easily to my 80 year old grandmother’s complaints about her [...]
You know that moment when the lightbulb goes on ? I know, too often it feels like it’s getting darker, not lighter (LOL). But reading Laurie Edwards, achronicdose, describe a recent bout with illness (On Work and Chronic Illness), was such an “ah hah!“ moment. In my zeal to encourage people to keep working while [...]
There was a problem with the blog and I am resending yesterday’s email. My sincere apologies for sending two emails to subscribers — in a row! Are you stuck on ONE ISSUE that keeps you up at night? One issue, caused by chronic illness, that keeps you from work success? Working with chronic illness is [...]
Are you delegating enough?
Pain or fatigue, common symptoms when you live with a chronic illness, can make working difficult or nearly impossible. My clients living with chronic illness have held jobs from one end of the employment spectrum to the other — people who work in call centers, secretaries, truckers, self employed, not employed but looking, teachers, lawyers, [...]
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 in a recent [...]
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 [...]
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 at [...]
