Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. If you’ve lived openly with a chronic illness for any length of time, you probably have enough unsolicited advice to fill three garbage bags. Invisible illnesses,…
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Morning Routines for those with Chronic Illnesses
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. Some days, getting out of bed is one of the most difficult tasks. You’re far warmer under your blanket fort and the world is filled with…
Why Anger is Okay for People with Chronic Illnesses
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. Oftentimes, people who suffer from a chronic illness are encouraged to accept their limitations. They’re expected to lower their expectations for life, learn to juggle their…
How to Tell your New Partner about your Chronic Illness
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. Dating seems to be portrayed as navigating a minefield of expectations and disappointments these days. Everyone seems to be looking for rules about when to talk…
How a Chronic Illness Can Make You A More Efficient Person
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. This one might seem a little counterintuitive, given the emotional and physical fatigue that often comes with a chronic illness. Those same symptoms, however, often lead…
How to Talk to Coworkers about your Chronic Illness
Peer Health can connect you with a personalized peer community to share provider recommendations, treatment options, and define your best life. Sign up for our beta and newsletter today. People who live with a chronic illness often fear discovery where they work. Though disability is, in general, a protected status at your place of employment, it can…
Parenting Advice for Chronically Ill Moms and Dads
Parenting is one of the most challenging yet rewarding jobs on the best of days. Between responsibilities inside the home and out, children certainly require more than it seems any one human could have time for. Throwing the difficulties of a chronic illness into the mix can make even the more simple day-to-day tasks feel…
Five ‘Unpopular’ Things People with Chronic Illnesses do
Self-care is pretty popular these days. It’s not uncommon to see images floating around the internet touting the amazing sensation of canceling plans out with friends to instead stay in and curl up with a good book. While we can all certainly agree from our own perspective, it’s often much more difficult to be the…
New Year’s Resolutions for those with Chronic Illnesses
With the new year right around the corner, many people are starting to think about their resolutions. From career advancement to romantic endeavors, it’s easy to look at January as a fresh start. And while these lists can get a bad rap, capitalizing on that sensation of newness isn’t a bad idea. In the spirit…
Spending Time with the Kids (and Grandkids) while Coping with a Chronic Illness
With the holiday season upon us, family time is likely a big part of your days and weeks. And while this is a wonderful thing, it can also be a bit difficult for people struggling with a chronic illness. Parents of exuberant toddlers can suffer the exhaustion that comes with fibromyalgia while grandparents might be…
