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The cost of living in stress, fear and overwhelm

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020

Confession: I am not taking good care of myself and my adrenals are suffering. Remember a few weeks ago how chilled out and relaxed I was? Yep, that is all gone now! And that calm has been replaced lately with near constant stress, anxiety, fear and overwhelm. Every day I wake up stressed and overwhelmed and go to bed even more stressed, fueled by adrenaline. Every day I am running around juggling a million different tasks and to-dos involving work and care-taking. Every day I fall behind with doing basic selfcare things like eating and sleeping because I am running around …

Slow living is healing my body

May 5, 2020May 5, 2020

Life has changed a lot over the past several weeks, hasn’t it? Here in NYC we are still on lockdown in the outside world. For me though, this is just more of the same, as I enter my 9th month of being housebound due to chronic illness. I don’t mind being at home all the time, as odd as that may sound. Do I want to be able to do more outside? Of course! I would especially love to be able to see my family or go on a hike in the forest. But these days with most public places closed …

Day in the life healing from eczema

May 5, 2020April 8, 2020

I thought I’d take you through a day in my life to show what it’s like having a chronic illness (eczema) and the ways I’m trying to heal and get through. I have improved a lot over the past few months and this is where I’m currently at in my healing – not totally debilitated anymore (thank god!) but not fully functioning yet either. Sort of at a weird halfway point. If you’d like to see where I was a few months back when things were extremely BAD you can check out my other eczema posts here. So at this point …

Recovering from Severe Hand Eczema

May 5, 2020December 27, 2019

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 …

Eczema Flares and my Session with a Medical Intuitive to Heal

May 5, 2020September 27, 2019

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, …

This is my story – What eczema is really like

May 5, 2020August 21, 2019

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 …