Essays about chronic illness, ambition and building a life that’s bigger than your diagnosis.
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Comebacks & Coffee with Kelly Holdaway of Flare & Flair — on chronic illness, ambition, pacing, boundaries, and building a life that’s bigger than your diagnosis.
What happens when you know your limits—but you still want a big, full, ambit...
The People Who Get the Best of Me
There are days when I can spend eight hours being articulate, patient, decisive and generally pretty good at my job, only to come home and find that my husband asking me a perfectly reasonable question is enough to make me contemplate divor...
A Room of My Own (With Better Lighting)
I have spent an unreasonable amount of time recently thinking about antique brass.
Not brass generally. I now have opinions about finishes: antique brass, aged brass, brushed brass, things pretending to be antique brass that are actually a...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Writing through chronic illness without making it the whole story. Expect ambitious plans, cancelled plans, great food, beautiful places and the occasional existential crisis.
Wife & mom of one adult son, disabled with SPMS. AuDHD/hEDS/APD/INFP/Bloomscroller Extraordinaire. This explores my housebound life, my joys, and my struggles. New articles every other Saturday morning.
I write about disability, power, and the wisdom of lived experience. My work challenges dominant narratives about disability and explores what those narratives reveal about agency, embodiment, and what it means to be human.
A space for those surviving parenthood with chronic illness & neurodivergence. No inspiration porn - just meeting your body and mind exactly where they are, feral and refusing to give up. 🥄
CEO and Founder of Disability Community for Democracy, Inc. Publisher of Nothing About Us Without Us. Diversability’s 7th annual D-30 Disability Impact List honoree.
40. Newly diagnosed with ME/CFS. Perimenopausal and chronically ill. Disabled mother. Paced permaculture gardener. Teacher. Intersectional feminism. Angryshoutyleftylady.
Your chronic illness big sister, sharing the shortcuts chronic illness forgot to come with. 17 years with lupus & APS. Honest stories and practical tools to protect your energy, advocate for yourself, and build a life you love in the body you have.
I’m Jennifer Cannon, writer, advocate, and creator of Beyond Migraine™. Through honest stories, advocacy, education, and poetry, I explore life with Chronic Hemiplegic Migraine, chronic illness, disability, and everything beyond the diagnosis.
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