Last month I did an experiment. Can I take a break from my greens for maybe a day? I was at Whole Foods when I hit the wall. Hard. I thought, What’s going on? I haven’t felt this bad in ages! Then I remembered the experiment and ordered some freshly made green vegetable juice. You wouldn’t believe how quickly I began to feel better.
So the number one thing I can’t live without is greens! A.k.a. green vegetable juice, or green vegetable powder in alkaline water. Continue reading
This morning I looked in the mirror and thought, “Doesn’t look like you pulled off giving up sleep deprivation for Lent.”
But my progress is not to be discounted. I’ve found yet more ways to make bedtime easier for myself (I’ve had some kind of weird phobia around this for much of my life. Not helpful in dealing with Chronic Fatigue.) Continue reading
This is sung to the tune of the first two verses and chorus of We Are the World by Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson. It’s inspired by the events surrounding a dream I once had, as is described in an earlier post.
FIRST VERSE
Stressful time, didn’t know what I should do
When the choice was parents’ wants or mine
There were bodies packed on ground
In the dream that came to help
It was clear
Their lives were not for me Continue reading
My dear 16-year-old Bola,
I have not come to tell you what lies in the future. I have come to help you see that in the present, you are worthy. You don’t have to do anything, or become anything to be worthy. You are intrinsically, inherently worthy, just as you are.
Your confusing experience with your parents and with your extended family has left you feeling as though your very existence is wrong and unwanted. I am so proud of you for somehow continuing to know that you deserve to be you. Thank goodness for all those cousins and family friends. It feels damaging to have to rely so heavily on them but at least they are there.
The following poster was inspired by words which I have been reading every day lately. Please see some of those words quoted beneath the image.
Please see pictures of this conversation’s results at the end of this post.
“Have you got any organic, eco-friendly Easter eggs?” I asked.
“Let me get you someone,” the man replied. Moments later, a woman had joined us. Continue reading
Dear Blog Challenge Reader,
How are you getting along with reading these daily posts?! If you’re also writing in this blog challenge, please say where in your comment.
There is going to be one more Health Activist Choice before the 30 days is over. What is your suggestion for that post?
Thank you and see you tomorrow!
Relevant Realitynibs links: Please Join Realitynibs on Health Activist’s Challenge and, Realitynibs is on EndFatigue.com!
WEGO prompt for this post: Health Activist Choice! Write about whatever you want today. (Maybe try a bonus prompt!)
This is post 7 of 30 in the Realitynibs.com series for WEGO Health’s Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge 2012.
True recovery
Is awakening chosen
– Life’s timeless purpose
Relevant Realitynibs links: These two posts tell of events that profoundly influenced my understanding of the journey of life and my own sense of purpose: Amazing Coincidence and Chance, Fate & Chronic Fatigue.
WEGO prompt for this post: Write a haiku about your health focus. 5 syllables/7 syllables/5 syllables. Write as many as you like.
This is post 6 of 30 in the Realitynibs.com series for WEGO Health’s Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge 2012
Ekphrasis … a rhetorical device in which one medium of art tries to relate to another medium by defining and describing its essence and form –Wikipedia
Please see the art in question at the bottom of this post.
I am beautiful in my serenity. I am still. And as I close my eyes in the stark, black and white of memory recall, I recognize my beauty gone unappreciated. Inner and outer, past and present.
The stillness of fatigue has brought me to this. Jewelry and makeup are not superfluous after all. It is a time to make those shorter moments in front of the mirror count for more. Celebrate my presence. Celebrate the universe that created me.
At first I wrote about my health because it was clear I was on some sort of frontier. It had taken more than two years to get diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and even that doctor wasn’t sure how to proceed. “Find an internist who understands Chronic Fatigue,” he’d said.
Sure, no problem. I found just such an internist. Two years later. Continue reading
