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 […]
What Chronic Illness and Pain Teach About Survival Read Post »
Yes, there is a path forward that takes you to the other side of chronic illness and pain. I used to think hope was something that just happened to lucky people. People with easier lives. Stronger bodies. Gentler stories. I thought hope was a luxury I couldn’t afford—a privilege reserved for those who hadn’t been
Why I Wrote Capturing Hope Read Post »
They call it “the suicide disease” for a reason. Complex Regional Pain Syndrome doesn’t just hurt—it steals your life one excruciating moment at a time. When a room-temperature teapot sent my nervous system into complete meltdown in October 2019, I thought my story was over. I was wrong. From Counting Pills to Crossing Oceans Capturing
How can you protect yourself from invisible threats? When I was in the third grade, my teacher gave us an assignment to write about the biggest way that life would be different when we’re thirty years old. I wrote that everyone will have access to a device that allows him or her to communicate with
