65 Self-Care Ideas For Autoimmune Diseases
Most people with an autoimmune disease are go-getters, high-achievers, and helpers. How did I form this opinion? I’ve spoken with over 100 people affected by an autoimmune disease and noticed that high-achieving traits are common among us all. We are go-getters until it catches up with us and gets us. We love to help and …
Emotional support for autoimmune disease
“We couldn’t find anything wrong with you. Your lab work is normal. Set up an appointment to come back in six months.” I remember standing outside my office building where I had gone to take the doctor’s call in private. I just stood there, frozen in time, feeling lost and in a void. After months …
Sleeping Well With A Chronic Illness
It felt wrung out and hung to dry. My arms and legs felt like I was walking through cement. Even though I had slept seven hours and woken up at 6:00 AM but by 9:00 AM, I wanted to go back to bed. I felt awful, and the thought of facing my day and doing …
The Best Diet For Autoimmune Disease
I asked my autoimmune specialist doctor what is the best diet for autoimmune disease? Should I go gluten-free? Or should I go paleo? He said the “best diet for autoimmune disease is to eat healthy, nutritious foods. The same diet I would eat, the same diet I would tell my family to eat. But, unfortunately, …
Autoimmune Disease: The Benefits of Exercise
The look on my face showed the pain. Just taking the three steps into the therapy pool hurt my knees. The instructor asked, “What part of your body hurts?” I said all of it! The gym I just joined had an aqua class called Gentle Joints held in a 90-degree therapy pool. Some people in …
Manage Stress and Live a Peaceful Life With These 7 Tips
Late on a Tuesday afternoon in December, I told my employee the good news, “we got you a raise!” She gave me a cold stare and turned her chair and back to my face. I walked away. Every day at my new job as manager of a toxic department jolted my nervous system and stress …
Autoimmune Disease and Mental Health
Why healing the mind is essential to win the war in your body A moment of awkward silence followed as Nadia asked, “Who has gone to therapy (mental health) since their diagnosis?” Silence. Nadia was hosting a large Zoom meeting of people who suffer from a debilitating autoimmune disease, this isn’t what she expected. Nadia …
Why daily Bible study is the foundation of a healthy lifestyle
Daily Bible study aligns you with God and provides a firm foundation for your mind, body, and spirit. Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do. –Joshua 1:8 NLT …
Autoimmune Disease: How to be healthy in six simple steps
If I was completely honest with myself, I knew that I had adopted an unhealthy lifestyle that had resulted in chronic stress, depression, and autoimmune disease. Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. -John C. Maxwell My coaching logs were growing weekly, and I finally realized there was no better way to start the day than …
Am I Good at Heart?
I did a lot of inner work in 2019, and through it all, I ended up with questions about my heart. Am I good at heart? What’s really in my heart? Is it right, good, decent, positive, moral, honorable, true, and sweet? Or is it wrong, bad, critical, negative, judgmental, hardened, and bitter? What I …
One Simple Act of Kindness
One simple act of kindness can create an endless ripple It was a sweltering hot day in August 1984. We’re driving down the road with the windows open singing along to the song from The Police – “I’ll be wrapped around your finger.” There was no air conditioning in her 1970s era Chevrolet Vega. The …
Has God put A Big Dream In Your Heart?
Has God put A Big Dream In Your Heart? Do you have a big dream in your heart that has been nagging at you for years? No matter what you do, or what you try, you always come back to your dream, goal, vision, or idea. Whatever you call it, “it’s” still there. God has …