Recovering from Severe Hand Eczema

I’m getting better! If you haven’t read part 1, part 2, and part 3 of my healing journey with severe eczema so far, you can read them here. When I last left off, I was determined to embark on a thorough healing routine, similar to the one I had put myself on when healing my feet 6 years ago. This was proving to be very difficult though, for a few reasons: 1) Having severe eczema on my hands is a LOT worse than what happened with my feet – yes, 6 years ago I wasn’t able to walk but other than …

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Eczema Flares and my Session with a Medical Intuitive to Heal

Usually I like to write blog posts that are useful/helpful and contain lots of tips for others on their wellness journey. However, with everything going on with my skin right now, this is not something I can really focus on. So instead, I’m choosing to write personally about what I’m going through. It helps me process things better and is my therapeutic outlet that at the same time lets others into my world. I believe stories hold a lot of power. So at least for the time being, my blog posts are going to be more story-like, chronicling my healing journey, …

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This is my story – What eczema is really like

I want to be completely transparent. The last 2 months of my life have been a living hell. Physically and emotionally torturous, the worst form of suffering by far I’ve ever experienced in my life. It’s hard for me to explain because you might be thinking, “How can a rash be THAT bad?” Before developing eczema on my hands, I never would have been able to imagine how a skin condition like this could affect you so much or be so debilitating. Traveling to see my family at the end of June this summer resulted in a MASSIVE flare up of …

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Life update – eczema health struggles

I’ve gotten some emails from readers asking about my health after my last post (I know it’s been super quiet on the blog lately – mostly because of various life crazies going on which you’ll hear more about below). Can I just say really quick, you guys are so sweet 🙂 I’m grateful to have such loyal readers checking in on this blog even when I sometimes go months without posting! One thing about me that tends to surprise people is I have no problem dropping pretty much everything else in my life if need be, to focus on health and …

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How to not let health ailments bring you down

Ever since my dad passed away in December, my health has been kind of a wreck. I’ve gotten hit with so many strange and debilitating health ailments over the past 3 1/2 months, most of which I’ve NEVER experienced before. First there was the cold that turned into severe bronchitis – two weeks of nonstop coughing and hacking and choking and almost zero sleep because of it. I got a doctor’s note and had to reschedule my trip to Florida. Then several weeks later there was the mysterious chest condition. It came on out of nowhere and literally felt like I …

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Leaving NYC: How to deal with the fear of moving

The new year is all about setting big goal and intentions for ourselves, yeah? Well, I’ve got a big scary goal that I’ve been sitting on for a long time… could this be the year it’s finally brought to fruition? I’m talking about moving away from New York City. Not just to travel for a series of months. But permanently. Scary!!!!! Maybe I should backtrack a little. I am originally from NYC – born in Manhattan, partially raised in Brooklyn. As a child we moved all over the east coast so I also grew up in other places but ever since …

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