Becoming and Homecoming | The joy of turning back the clock, second chances, and rediscovering myself

How does your sense of identity affect your immune system? If we immigrate and force integration without an adjustment period, are we setting ourselves up for a health crisis?

I healed for THIS?! Nah, I'm good.

Trading Diagnoses for Stages and Frameworks in Healing | A big part of healing my nervous system, I believe, was to accept the weirdness, love it, and give myself the freedom to explore it without judgment, without labels, without diagnoses, treatments, or suppression.

The Toxic Spiral of Looking for Purpose in Suffering

It's long and hard and lonely sometimes; no one tells you how to come back from the dead. But I made a promise I intend to keep with every fiber of my being: if I got a second chance at all the things I loved and took for granted, I wouldn’t waste it this time on fear and self-doubt. I was gonna live.

This Tickaversary post is purposely, joyously, and miraculously late. I had a feeling long ago that it might be, and I began so many drafts of this post throughout the year to get a head start, trying to remember my experiences and progress. But so much happens in the meantime that what I wrote (which felt Really Big and Important at the time) always seems so small and insignificant. Or rather, the lessons I learned incorporate so fluidly into my life that they become routi

Can I respect everything in its season – winter, exhaustion, rest, grief? Can I honor Sabbath, transition, liminal spaces, unknowing?

Why I Don't Celebrate (If I Don't Want To)

What remission from chronic Lyme is NOT is a sudden restoration to 100% health. A new life is here. And there’s no road map. Now what?

My Lyme Story: For all the talk of finding the root cause, are we never getting to it: belief systems that perpetuate stress and fear?

My Lyme Story: Digging up dirt on The Chronic Lyme Paradigm

My Lyme Story: How deep does this go? Is Chronic Lyme just the tip of a much bigger iceberg?

My Lyme Story: Here I had it - the brain region responsible for all my problems, past and present: ADD, Depression, & psychiatric Lyme

My Lyme Story: When you are raised since conception with the teaching that you're a guilty depraved sinner deserving of eternal punishment, and the only cure is to die to self and become someone else... how do you NOT become self-destructive; i.e. autoimmune?