Acquiring a chronic health condition isn’t easy. With it comes loss and with loss, the process of grieving. Stages of grief may be:
Disbelief (shock that the loss has occurred)
Denial (refusing to accept the loss)
Bargaining (making deals with deity, doctors, etc. )
Guilt (If I had done ______ maybe this never would have happened to me.)
Anger (towards the loss, illness, deity, etc.)
Depression (may run throughout the entire process until the loss is accepted)
Acceptance and Hope (Life has changed but it will continue and be meaningful. Acceptance doesn’t  mean you have to like …

            This morning I read the words: If I created my week with my body as my ally, taking into consideration its needs, I might… (Jennifer Louden’s book The Life Organizer).  Being in a place where I view my body as my ally and not my enemy has taken me years to experience. Illness has highlighted a sense of my body as enemy, and illness has brought me to feeling my body is my ally. It has not been an easy path to this position and arriving here has been …

Of course I don’t have to tell all of you how difficult PMDD is to live with, but adding work in the mix is a killer when you feel in the dumps for 2 weeks.
It’s difficult to get out of bed and once you do, you sure don’t want to put on a smiley face when you get to work and deal with the added stresses it brings.
Can you do it?
Heck ya’!  We can do anything we set our minds too!
Do you want to do it?
If you are reading this …

This is a very close subject to me, not because I have actually tried to commit suicide, but a close friend of mine did, and succeeded.
This is a touchy subject for some, but because I am ‘all out there’ with the things I write and that’s what makes this site so much different than most, and mostly more helpful, please keep some things in mind.
Whatever your feelings or thoughts are on suicide or on what I write regarding this post, please feel free to comment, I sincerely hope you will.  …

I sometimes feel guilty for feeling down when everything is so good. I know there are people in the world that have it a lot rougher than I do.
Maybe this is why I share so freely everything about my PMDD. It feels wrong to me to feel down in the dumps when I think of all the good I have in my life. So, if the people around me understand, or at least realize, I am not down because of bad things, but because of hormonal problems, it just feels …