Tag: values-based living
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Values and meaning in chronic illness when your plans have changed
A long-term condition can take the future you were planning for. How values and meaning-making work once the body you built your life around has changed, and how to start small.
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Grief and Chronic Illness: The Long Work of Living With a Changed Life
Chronic illness brings a grief no one sends a card for: the loss of the self you were. Here is why that loss is real, and how your values can help you live alongside it.
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What progress looks like in therapy for chronic illness
Progress in therapy for chronic illness rarely arrives as a moment. It looks like the same life feeling different, with the condition still in it. A therapist on what to look for.
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Therapy for chronic illness: when recovery isn’t the goal
The work isn’t about making the condition smaller. It’s about helping you stop fighting your body, so the energy that was going into that fight becomes available for the life you want to live.
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When the struggle itself is the problem: willingness and chronic illness
The fight against a long-term condition can cost more than the symptoms do. Willingness offers a different place to put that energy, so you have more left for the life you want.
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The Globus Sensation: Why Your Throat Feels Stuck
Feel a persistent lump in your throat with nothing there? Learn what globus sensation is, why anxiety makes it worse, and an approach to living well with it.
