I know everyone’s probably saying the same thing, but can you believe that we’re almost halfway through the ‘new year’ already?! The older I get, the more I’m amazed at how time whizzes by. I even need to pause for awhile as I recount my age, as I can’t keep track anymore 😉 April’s linkup […]
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*Note from A Chronic Voice: Rose Roberts is a lovely lady who can be found on Instagram, @roseroberts54. I am publishing this for her here as she doesn’t have a blog yet, but wanted to join in the April linkup party fun! I’m very grateful that she went the extra mile to email me about […]
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*A Note from A Chronic Voice: Desi Mazdur lives with fibromyalgia, and uses a number of tools to improve his quality of life. He runs a website, “Disabled Messenger”, where he shares many tutorials about “Dragon NaturallySpeaking”, which is a leading voice assistant software with amazing capabilities. In fact, it’s the technology that powers Apple […]
*Note from A Chronic Voice: Many people who live with chronic illness have probably heard of the term ‘spoonie’, if not, the original explanation can be found on Christine Miserando’s site. I personally use it because it’s much more succinct than repeating ‘chronic illness person’ ad nauseam 😉 Sierra is a writer for “XO Faith”, […]
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A Note from A Chronic Voice: I was happy when Tim of Sober Nation approached me and wanted to write a guest post. I’m unfamiliar with addiction as a disease, and knew that he was the right person to share about this issue. We often don’t realise that we’re addicted until it’s too late. We […]
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*Note from A Chronic Voice: Kristin has a herniated disc, and the pain has made life more challenging for her while raising three kids at the same time. Despite these challenges, travelling is still a big part of her and her family’s life. In fact, it was from one of her trips that she realised […]
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What’s This All About? Welcome to this brand new series on the blog! We will be featuring people who live with chronic illnesses, except that we won’t be talking about illnesses at all (plenty of space on our individual blogs for that!). Instead, we’ll be focussing on their natural talents and passions in life. I […]
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*Note from A Chronic Voice: Angela started blogging after she was diagnosed with major depression and general anxiety disorder, which subsequently spiralled into a long list of other mental disorders. She hopes to raise awareness on these highly stigmatised illnesses, and we’re honoured to have her here with us today: Depression. ADHD and OCD tendencies. […]
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*Note from A Chronic Voice: Jeremy and Joanna are both physiotherapists who have been travelling around the world since 2010, working in all sorts of interesting places! They are committed to staying as healthy as possible while on the road. Today Jeremy shares some basic insight into back pain from a physiotherapist’s perspective, and also […]
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*Note from A Chronic Voice: I came across Diana’s website and loved her writing style and tips. Diana strongly believes in the art of storytelling, and we’re honoured to have her share some fantastic tips here! It is my hope that we all learn a thing or two, such that we can share our stories […]
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*Note from A Chronic Voice: Did you know that up to 70% of our immune system resides in our gut? For those of us with autoimmune diseases, a lot of what our medications do is to suppress our immune system as a whole. While this may control painful inflammation, they weaken our immunity at the […]
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