A health, wellness and chronic illness blog that aims to articulate lifelong illness and disabilities from various perspectives.
Featuring Sarah Frison, a Pastry Chef from Belgium Sarah is our first interviewee from Belgium, and she’s also a trained pastry chef! While she is unable to continue on this career path due to chronic illness, she now uses her knowledge to help others by using a stepped nutritional approach. When people approach her for […]
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The Wonderful Randomness of the Internet To tell you the truth, I hardly know a thing about Roy; he isn’t in my usual online circle. In fact it was another stranger who linked us up with a few quick words on Twitter and voilà, I have a new, interesting person to feature in this series! […]
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Featuring Katarina Zulak of “Skillfully Well” Katarina strikes me as an artistic and intelligent soul, and I picked up a few hobby tips while interviewing her! She’s into calligraphy, writing and reading. She also started a creative bullet journal to organise her todo list, which can be tricky with brain fog. With meditation as part […]
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Featuring Jayne Baily of “The Daily Manic” Jayne runs a great series on her blog called “Living Well with Chronic Illness”, which I’m always eager to read. The perspectives provided by other people are always useful either for future application, or reflection. She works as a life coach and gets a lot of satisfaction from […]
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Featuring Kelly Hodgkins of “moonglotexas” Having followed Kelly’s blog for a few months now, it’s obvious that she’s an avid reader. She does lots of book reviews, and I’m always amazed by how much this girl can read. Apart from reading, her horse, dog and job bring her great joy in life. Her upbeat personality […]
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Featuring Shannon Giroux of “MSnubutterflies” Multiple Sclerosis affects the brain and spinal cord, and can cause permanent damage or deterioration of the nerves. Whilst Shannon lives with Multiple Sclerosis, her creativity and passion for life can be seen with all the personalised touches around her home! She goes from whipping up new recipes in the […]
Featuring Carole Griffitts of “Navigating the Storms” & Her Passions in Life We’re impressed with Carole’s numerous hobbies and passions, especially for computers, considering that many her age shun or struggle with them! In fact, she was game for trying out a couple technical things while collaborating for this post, which was amazing! Apart from […]
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Featuring Cheyanne Perry of “Hospital Princess” Cheyanne is one of my favourite chronic illness bloggers out there who lives with a number of chronic illnesses: Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Dysautonomia, Gatroparesis and Mast Cell Disease. Because of that, she can’t quite eat food the usual way, and needs to be fed through a tube or IV line. […]
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Featuring Sarah Poitras in Our First Edition! What do people with chronic illnesses do every day? Do they even get any enjoyment out of life?! I think there’s no better way to kick off this brand new series than to feature Sarah Poitras of “Travel Breathe Repeat”! Despite having a progressive lung disease, she travelled […]
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*Note from A Chronic Voice: Lucy first interviewed me for her blog, which inspired me to conduct a couple of them myself. My hope is to expand this blog to include many other voices other than my own. Every life story is unique, and the way we experience it is also very different. While Lucy […]
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