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We’ve Moved to a New Web Site
We have combined all of the National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week Blog items and the main site to one site that has blog capabilities. We are trying to update the feed for everyone who has signed up to get it, but so far… no luck. PLEASE pleeeease go to www.invisibleillness.com and you can either [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Tuesday’s Podcast on Setting Boundaries for Adult Children
Have you ever felt like your son or daughter is taking advantage of your generosity and yet you don’t know how to make them less dependent on you? When you live with the guilt of having an illness and not giving them the “perfect” life, it’s easy to become tangled up in the emotions of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Oprah and Dr. Oz Talk to Celebrities About “After the Diagnosis”
Tuesday, March 17th Oprah’s show will feature an interview with Montel Williams about living with chronic illness and they will be joined by the well-known physician Dr. Oz. This is not an endorsement of any kind for Oprah or her television show, but I am eager to see what this episode reveals regarding living with [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Now Accepting Articles for II Week Blog
Thanks so much for the patience many of you have shown while I’ve taken a few months off from the blog. I ended up contracting the flesh eating virus this October and of course… “I didn’t look sick” (at all.)
I’d like to continue to have special guest posts about invisible illness issues; if you hear [...]
GUEST BLOGGER:Will Someone Marry Me, Despite My Multiple Sclerosis?
I recently held a discussion and book signing and during the question and answer segment of our discussion, one of the participants, the only person present with MS, asked “I’m amazed, and excited to know that after all that you have been through, you are now remarried. How did that happen, because as you said, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 5 so far )Guest Blogger: Don’t Forget to Laugh!
Comedy comes in all forms, including the laughable chronic illness. I suffer with fibromyalgia and with it come some of the funniest things I have ever done. I laugh at myself daily; hence I do not sink into the deep pit of “Oh, Woe is me”! One fine example is the fibro fog and the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )GUEST BLOGGER: Why Your Illness Story Needs to Be Told to Change the World
Note from editor: This is a longer post than we usually have for a guest blogger, but the information in it is important for you to know, and also to know what organizations, such as the Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness (who is one of our sponsors!) do to assist individual cases as well [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 6 so far )Do You Scrapbook Your Illness?
Studies have shown that scrapbooking can have a positive therapeutic affect. Here is one article: The Theraputic Value of Scrapbooking
Lisa Copen, founder of National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week is also the designer of scrapbookmyadoption.com . As she was working on the designs for the adopion scrapbook, she read more and more about people who [...]
How to Minister to the Chronically Ill: 20 Ways in 20 Minutes
As is our tradition, we are printing an article on Sunday that we hope your church or other religious organization may find helpful. This article is free to reprint; just keep it “as is” includig the footer at the bottom. Thank you!
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