Intro post #1 here. Okay, so you’re keeping dedicated notes and you’ve kind of figured out that there are three basic flavours of Being Stuck In Bed that have nothing to do with lazy or sick: fatigue, mental health, or neurodivergent symptoms (including for people who aren’t typically neurodivergent). Today we’re going to tackle the […]
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A friend of mine asked this question this week. I’ve asked this question this week. Probably, some of you have too, so I decided I wanted to answer it here, where it might be useful to anyone who stumbles across it. I’m also in weird-vibes land because I just watched a return-to-work video by a
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Just some random musings on the state of my life this evening, journal style, because yes, I’m writing this in the evening even though it’ll show up first thing in the morning – not that that matters, because by the time you read it, it could be morning, it could be evening, it could be
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I mentioned Amy Sheppard yesterday in my post, and in browsing back through her Insta feed, I realised she’d released a single with accompanying music vid. As the pioneer of the #kissmyfatass tag, and given her wonderful IS feed, I thought the song would be good – but it’s actually better than I’d hoped. Catchy,
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So I had the fun experience the other day of going in for a routine check of my thyroid (which was irradiated back in 2014, woot radioactive girl!*) and getting the results, which were, essentially, “Hey, your thyroid’s GREAT but LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE IS BROKEEEEENNNNN”. *eyeroll*. * So after the radiation therapy, I had to
Dying Of The Death (And Lack Of Oxygen) Read More »
No one ever said: You must love only perfect things. So when I tell you, “I love my body.” I’m not claiming perfection, or delusion, or illusion. It’s unfit, like a jellyfish with bones; it’s neglected, a latch-key kid in its own skin; it’s flabs-not-abs, scars-not-spas, pores-not-cores. You are telekinetic. Did you know that? (Telekinesis
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I mentioned last week that I want to work on prioritising my sleep in an effort to make it easier for me to reclaim my health; the past few years have wreaked havoc on my body (highlights include two pregnancies, the second of which totally warped my body’s response to hormones, a hyperactive thyroid nodule,
Celebration Food: Reimagining “Junk” Food Read More »
I read this fantastic article the other day by Jane Caro about weight loss and dieting. It’s not a topic I usually do a lot of reading on, but the link was part of a conversation on Twitter that was passingly intriguing, and I rather like Caro’s commentary on life (not that I realised she
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