My Lyme Story: If we were raised in a culture of "No Pain, No Gain" or "suffering for Christ", how could we ever accept self-care and rest for healing?

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

If I want to heal, know God, and be restored sevenfold, what should I expect but a whirlwind? When God sends a plague, it sets people free.

2020 | installation | medical paraphernalia | 24" x 69" x 45"

I can’t believe it’s “only” been 4 years since the “ Summer of the Ticks. ” It seems like a lifetime ago. In many ways it was – I am a...

To those with Lyme, depression, or grief at Christmas: You are not damaged. You are not a Grinch. You are the very embodiment of Christmas

People think of recovery as tomorrow being better than yesterday, every day, every week, a little stronger. But Lyme-MSIDS recovery, like th

Watching my faith fall to pieces, in the hypocrisy of the Christian church toward those who are suffering

Instead of lamenting the weekend I found the tick that changed it all, I will celebrate surviving thus far!

There is a time to break down. There is a time to weep. There is a time to mourn. There is a time to be silent. Take it, and have peace.

I need to realize the self-fulfilled purpose of merely existing. I was created. I lived. He was glorified. It is finished.

Somewhere out there is a young woman whose life has just been derailed by Lyme, unsure if life is still worth living. For her, I write.