Earlier this year I announced that I have become a spoonie entrepreneur, meaning I was starting a business with a chronic illness. It has only been about 6 months since I started but I definitely feel like I've learned things along the way that I want to share with you all. Working with a Chronic Illness It's extremely difficult holding down a job when you suffer from a chronic illness. The unpredictability of chronic illness makes it sometimes impossible to maintain a work[...]
Guess who has mastered her perfect green smoothie recipe and technique? Me- well almost. I’ve never been a smoothie drinker. I’ve tried them a few times from a few places in the past and was left underwhelmed. If you all recall I scratched my throat back in July with a fish bone. It was super uncomfortable to swallow things. My nutritionist veered me towards green smoothies instead of the Ensure I was chugging to get by. After a couple weeks of following other people’s[...]
Today, I want to discuss the idea of returning to work during COVID when you're chronically ill. I've had the luxury of working from home since March when COVID first ramped up. As the world around me started to open back up, I knew it was a matter of time before I'd get pressured to return to work. Does Having a Chronic Illness makes you a Vulnerable Individual to COVID I think it's important to first establish that the chronic illness community is a part of the vulnerable indiv[...]
This is the announcement post for the 10 Day Affirmation Challenge. Those interested are going to practice positive affirmations for 10 days. When I first started practicing affirmations, it felt weird. The more I've practiced affirming, the easier it's gotten. So this month, I invite you to join me on a 10 Day Chronic Illness Affirmation Challenge. The Power of Affirmations Each one of us affirms, whether you believe it or not. Have you ever heard the saying there is power i[...]
Even though it’s COVID, it’s still summer. People are slowly spending more time outside, soaking up the sun. So it’s the perfect time to discuss sunscreens for black women. Do Black Women need sunscreen? Yes. Yes, you absolutely do need to use sunscreen as a Black woman. Contrary to popular belief, Black women aren’t immune to common skin cancers. Melanin is beautiful but it does crack if you don’t take care of your skin properly. While White women are more[...]
I recently started working out again. Exercising with a chronic illness can be difficult, especially working out with myasthenia gravis because it affects the muscles. After years of stewing on what my illness dictates I can’t do. I decided to focus on figuring out what I can do. One of the first things on the list was figuring out how I can start working out with myasthenia gravis without ending up in the hospital in a crisis. Exercising with a Chronic Illness I u[...]