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Chronic illness is disabling, isolating, and often devastating; it also gives us unique insight into grief, community, spirituality, and what it means to be well.
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What the Ocean Can Teach Us About Chronic Illness (opens the original)
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Welcome to Sage Advice, my column where I answer questions about chronic illness. For previous editions, see here, here, here, and here. Have a question? Send me a message!<div
On Chronic Illness and Music Festivals (opens the original)
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Year 1The first time I went to the All Things Go music festival, I had no idea what it was. Even though, as a twenty-something White bisexual woman with a lot of emotions living in the greater DC area, I could not have fit more squarely into the target demographic. So, when my situationship offered me a ticket that was almost certainly not meant for me, I agreed without any sense of what I was in for.I had never been to a music festival before. I had no clue what to wear. I settled on a combinat
What Do Sex, Sleep, and Chronic Illness Have in Common? (opens the original)
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Content note: This post mentions both vomit and sex; if that is upsetting to you, perhaps a different post would be better for you…Recently, I had the concept of surrender forced on me as I vomited again and again. A vicious norovirus had torn through my family, and I’d caught it. As I heaved with less and less in my stomach, I had the thought: this too shall pass. I don’t know when, but eventually it will ease. In the meantime, I just have to let it run its course. The sooner the contents are e
August Healing Circle (opens the original)
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Our August Healing Circle is this Sunday, August 30th, from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm EST. We hope you can join us!Here is the link.This month, we are addressing the concept of shame. It’s a universal experience and one that can be hard to talk about. We hope that the structure, love, and safety of the Healing Circle will allow us to explore this heavy topic that shows up in our experiences of chronic illness.Here are the poems that we will use on Sunday to guid
Grounded: My Life in a Word (Audio) (opens the original)
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This essay was published in Breath and Shadow in Fall 2025, Volume 22, Issue 4. It is an updated version of an essay I published on this blog in January, 2025, with a new audio recording.Part 1When I was 7 years old, I was, for the first and only time in my life, grounded by my father.The incident for which I was punished began when my best friend Ben and I decided to rappel out of his second-story window on a rope tied around a bedpost. Ben and I bothhad parents who
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