Have you ever felt like screaming and it's like nobody would hear you if you did?
This holiday season, while many are wrapping gifts and gathering with loved ones, I find myself walking through a different kind of transition — one filled with endings, beginnings, and a quiet, steady determination to choose faith over fear.
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We have to learn not to entertain negativity in our lives, because misery loves company and we can't give them that much energy.
Your fellow human beings can turn into your Judas Iscariot at any moment in this lifetime. Having friends who are pretenders and when a situation changes, immediately they switch you off.
Through the hospital visits, the medication changes, the frustrations, the prayers, the tears — I am still here. I am smiling as I write this blog post.
Your life may be so noisy, so dark, trying to figure out how you got to that part. Walking back and forth wondering if you're coming or going.
I've learned that being the center of my care team doesn't mean I have to do it all alone — it means I get to lead the conversation about my body and my healing.
I do not associate with victimhood. Yet, in these moments, the victimization of a careless Congress and presidential administration may leave me vulnerable with an inability to pay for medical care and manage my disease.
Help and healing are possible. It starts with one act of surrender and one conversation with someone you trust.