Writing a Book While Managing Chronic Illness Read Post »
Here’s the truth about creating Capturing Hope: From Pain’s Deepest Prison to Freedom’s Dawn: writing became my survival strategy, not despite my chronic pain, but because of it. When Your Body Becomes the Enemy Living with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome—the suicide disease—means every day is a negotiation with a body that interprets room-temperature objects as […]
An American Manifesto Read Post »
Americans, here is our manifesto. Americans are all one people. We aren’t black, white, Asian, or Hispanic. Although we may believe in different political ideologies, we are all Americans first. Recently the morality and compassion of America has diminished, as evidenced by mass murders and the constant barrage of negative news that asserts itself into
Reflect on the Past… Read Post »
When you reflect on your past, how do you feel? More importantly, how can you overcome how you feel about your past? As I child, other children laughed at me because of my clothes. My hand-me-down pants were too short, as were the sleeves of my shirt. Both my pants and my shirts usually had permanent
The Opposite Reaction Read Post »
How can you conquer the ghouls in your life? Be the opposite reaction! Everyone has ghouls in life. Ghouls come at us from all sides constantly in the form of negativity and problems. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by all of the ghouls that attack us at once and are tempted to give up. But we
