Mindset shifts and emotional strategies for coping with chronic illness. Navigating grief, identity, and mental strength to keep moving forward.
It’s late at night, and I’m lying in bed while the world keeps moving. My phone lights up with photos of friends at dinner, coworkers celebrating, people living lives I can’t touch. My body aches, but what really crushes me isn’t the pain. It’s the guilt. Because in the world we live in, where worth…
At 7 p.m., I’m staring at a blinking cursor, my body screaming to stop, but fear of disappointing others keeps me typing. That’s what living with chronic pain often looks like: silence, not screams. For years, I thought boundaries were walls. Saying “no” felt like pushing people away. But over time, I learned the truth:…
When you’re 25, you think you have time. You think your body will bounce back, that working harder will eventually pay off, that one day you’ll arrive at a version of your life where everything feels stable. But chronic pain has its own timeline. It doesn’t care about your plans. I was 25 when I…
Most people think living with chronic pain is about endurance. For years, I thought so too. I woke up ready to fight my body, convinced that if I just pushed harder, I’d win. But pain isn’t an opponent. My body wasn’t the enemy, it was an exhausted ally. Dragged onto a battlefield I created by…