Can We Stop Auditioning for "Guess My Weight"?

Dear Stranger, My Body Isn’t a Before-and-After Photo. Somewhere along the way, society decided that the most exciting thing about a chronic...

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Can We Stop Auditioning for "Guess My Weight"?

Dear Stranger, My Body Isn’t a Before-and-After Photo. Somewhere along the way, society decided that the most exciting thing about a chronic...

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A Toy Story Winter Tale

If Woody & Buzz had Fibromyalgia in winter, even getting out of bed would require a rescue mission. Winter arrives like an unexpected villai...

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A Toy Story Winter Tale

If Woody & Buzz had Fibromyalgia in winter, even getting out of bed would require a rescue mission. Winter arrives like an unexpected villai...

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Scared of Letting People In

Scared Of Loving  Living with fibromyalgia doesn’t just live in my body—it lives in my mind, my heart, and the way I move through the world....

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Be Your Own Team

Your Always Have Been Some days… the hardest place to exist isn’t even in the outside world. It’s inside your own mind. Because when your b...

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Not a Before and After, But a Becoming

My Body Keeps The Score, but I'm Learning To Rewrite The Story I'll be honest with you the last few months have felt like a quiet kind of ...

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Be Your Own Team

Your Always Have Been Some days… the hardest place to exist isn’t even in the outside world. It’s inside your own mind. Because when your b...

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If Fibromyalgia Was a Movie

Version of My Life If fibromyalgia were a movie, it wouldn’t politely introduce itself. It...

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How I Learned to Bloom in the Dark

Something In The Orange There’s something in the orange sky that tells ...

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If Fibromyalgia Was a Movie

Version of My Life If fibromyalgia were a movie, it wouldn’t politely introduce itself. It...

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How I Learned to Bloom in the Dark

Something In The Orange There’s something in the orange sky that tells ...

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Falling Didn’t End Me

It Rewrote Me There was a time when that sentence felt impossible. Years ago, while I was studying teaching, my neurologist told me someth...

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Falling Didn’t End Me

It Rewrote Me There was a time when that sentence felt impossible. Years ago, while I was studying teaching, my neurologist told me someth...

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A Storm In a Teacup

My Nervous System Is Holding the Spoon Some days my life feels like a storm in a teacup. Tiny cup. Big feelings. Absolutely unnecessary a...

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A Storm In a Teacup

My Nervous System Is Holding the Spoon Some days my life feels like a storm in a teacup. Tiny cup. Big feelings. Absolutely unnecessary a...

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Living with Fibromyalgia and Mental Health: A Daily Struggle

Living with fibromyalgia and mental health challenges feels like an ongoing battle. It’s as though I’ve lost the person I used to be, lookin...

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Friday, Fibro, and a Little Bit of Magic

Friday arrives like a soft knock instead of a loud alarm. No rushing. No demanding. Just a gentle hey… you made it. Fibromyalgia doesn’t car...

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Friday, Fibro, and a Little Bit of Magic

Friday arrives like a soft knock instead of a loud alarm. No rushing. No demanding. Just a gentle hey… you made it. Fibromyalgia doesn’t car...

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I Only Want Daylight

Depression Had Other Plans Let’s clear something up: I don’t enjoy being sad. I don’t thrive in darkness. I want daylight. I want peace. I...

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I Only Want Daylight

Depression Had Other Plans Let’s clear something up: I don’t enjoy being sad. I don’t thrive in darkness. I want daylight. I want peace. I...

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When My Body Shrinks but My Pain Grows

Am Not Losing Weight, I Am Losing Pieces of Myself Fibromyalgia and losing weight is not a glow up. It is not discipline. It is not a sec...

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When My Body Shrinks but My Pain Grows

Am Not Losing Weight, I Am Losing Pieces of Myself Fibromyalgia and losing weight is not a glow up. It is not discipline. It is not a sec...

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I Move Slower So I Can Stay

How I Pace My Life Without Losing Joy My body has a smaller battery than the world expects. Some days it drains before morning coffee. Som...

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I Move Slower So I Can Stay

How I Pace My Life Without Losing Joy My body has a smaller battery than the world expects. Some days it drains before morning coffee. Som...

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Only Me Trying

I wasn’t gold, wasn’t glitter, wasn’t shine Just a name they used when the stars aligned But I got sick, and silence hit the line They ghos...

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Only Me Trying

I wasn’t gold, wasn’t glitter, wasn’t shine Just a name they used when the stars aligned But I got sick, and silence hit the line They ghos...

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Fibromyalgia and Its Weird Little Games

A Body That Collapses,A Spirit That Refuse To Well… let the games begin. Do you ever feel like a Lego tower? Perfectly built. Carefully st...

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Fibromyalgia and Its Weird Little Games

A Body That Collapses,A Spirit That Refuse To Well… let the games begin. Do you ever feel like a Lego tower? Perfectly built. Carefully st...

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