I can see how this world would never have worked for me if I hadn’t recovered, why it was so devastating and isolating to be chronically ill, and how many millions of people continue to be disabled and invisible precisely because it doesn’t work for them either. And it doesn’t have to be this way.

2025/6 | acrylic on canvas | 24cm x 30 cm

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

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

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?

Post-Coronial dystopia

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?

The Power of Validating our Lived Experience | In my health and trauma work over the past few years, I’ve come to explore and accept the very necessary concept of non-dualistic thinking; yin and yang, opposite but essential, both true… “yes, and.” It's usually called "both/and" thinking.

I’m in a new territory – the “Remission Purgatory” as I call it. A space in between sick and healthy.

Maybe the key to violence in our world is the fact that we are all walking around with loaded weapons.

Hating yourself will literally destroy your brain and body with illness. Hating your self will destroy your view of God and love for others