Simplifying Life

Hello Dazzle! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I want to talk about how I went about simplifying my life. By this, I mean how I reduced the amount of energy I needed to spend every day in order to accomplish everything that I need to. For those of us with chronic illness, we often find that there are more things that we are expected to do then we have energy for. This means that we need to take a close look at our lives and decide what we need to cut away and what needs to remain.

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The “Good Enough” of Health Choices

Hello Dazzle! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I want to talk about the vast area of grey that exists in the world of being healthy and making healthy choices for yourself. Generally speaking, when people talk about things being healthy or not, they tend to consider things in an all or nothing fashion. But the truth is that nothing in life or in your health works in an all or nothing fashion.

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My Biggest Complaint: Othering

What do you complain about the most?

Hello Dazzle! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. Today I want to talk about complaining. Just like everyone else, I find myself complaining about things in life. Truth be told, I probably complain about things in life more than other people do. My list of complaints is rather long and complex. When I was given this writing prompt I found that I am finding it rather hard to determine which is my biggest complaint.

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Seeking Change?

Hello Dazzle! Thanks for coming and hanging out with me today, I’m glad that you are here. A question that I am frequently asked is: “Would you want to change the way you are?” And this is a complicated question. When people ask me this, they think that it has a simple answer. They think that it can be answered with a “yes” or a “no”. But it really doesn’t have that simple of an answer.

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