Midlife is not a crisis. Midlife is an unraveling. By definition, you can’t control or manage an unraveling. You can’t cure the midlife unraveling with control any more than the acquisitions,…

— “Quiet Madness” After Becoming Severely Disabled, and

If you've tried every planner and system and still feel like you're failing, this post is for you. The exhaustion you feel around planning runs deeper than the planning itself — and understanding why…

As someone who has lived with chronic illnesses for over twenty years, I know that ‘good days’ often come with people assuming I am well. People saying I am looking better, or I seem well today do…

A personal journey of living with a dynamic disability, navigating mobility aids, imposter syndrome, and finding resilience in daily life.

Part 2 of “If You Could See MS” drags you deeper into the neurological horror of living with multiple sclerosis. Raw, furious, and darkly funny—this isn’t feel-good fluff. It’s blood, spoons, and…

How to create micro moments of joy to support your nervous system, build resilience, and feel more alive in hard times.

Researchers devised a series of tests to measure your furry friend's laterality, which can be associated with behavior, emotion and cognition

From stronger relationships to deeper purpose, research finds that midlife may come with unexpected gains.

Pastoralists are experts in managing extreme variability. In a volatile world economy, bankers should learn how they do it

Introduction I never imagined I’d become fluent in medical language. I never thought I’d know the ins and outs of NHS referral systems, or that I’d learn to navigate clinics, symp…

An exploration of living with disability, where anger is both a shield and a source of grief and how it feels to have a body that betrays you

The late Thich Nhat Hanh emphasized the practice of mindful walking as a profound way to deepen our connection with our body and the earth. Read on and learn how to breathe, take a mindful step, and…

A filmmaker tries to reconstruct her brother’s faltering experience of time: adrift and without continuity

It’s the puny things that get the attention.

Approaching, Dreading, Naming, Depending, Regaining

Understanding Was the Easy Part

When effort doesn’t lead to ability

July is Disability Pride Month. During the month of July, we celebrate Disability Pride Month, which is an opportunity to break barriers, educate people on ableism, and celebrate the uniqueness and…

A ball suspended in mid-air meets an athlete’s determination: in the traditional Inuit one-foot high kick, competitors must defy gravity

Researchers found that just 20 minutes of comfortable walking can rapidly stimulate the gut. Within one to two minutes after exercise, bowel sounds became stronger, more frequent, and lasted longer,…

When your body doesn't give you clear signals, pattern recognition feels impossible. This post is about why most tracking attempts fall apart, what you're actually looking for when you pay attention…

Doctor-CEO Oliver Kharraz explained why healthcare keeps humbling corporate giants.

It was living on a diet of rice, noodles, and eggs

When you have endometriosis or any kind of chronic pain, doctors often recommend that you do some kind of exercise because movement can help improve pain levels. Exercise is important when you live…

Living with chronic illness has taught me that life can change without warning. Cruising has taught me to find hope in the unexpected.

Real Strategies for Moving with Chronic Illness in Wild Spaces

Sometimes the longest journey isn’t across oceans. It’s finding your way back to yourself after illness, trauma, and the stories you’ve come to believe about who you are.

In the bustling landscape of today's work environment, where demands are like tectonic plates — constantly shifting and overlapping — mastering the art of

Chronic illness doesn't erase who you are, but it does make "finding yourself" a lot harder than the usual advice admits. This post names what actually gets in the way and offers small, honest ways…

We all have parts of ourselves others know but we don’t. Gain greater self-awareness by seeing yourself from the outside in

It's often presented as something productive, aesthetic, or aspirational, but let’s try the softest version of self-care on low energy days.

If pushing through with chronic illness is costing more and delivering less, you're not failing... your strategy is. Here's why it stops working, and what to do instead.

Practice is at the heart of Korean philosophy. In order to lead a good life, hone your daily rituals of self-cultivation

Managing multiple chronic conditions isn't just harder than managing one — it's a different kind of problem. When your diagnoses interact and your baseline shifts depending on which thing is loudest…

Far from being a waste of time, the regrets that haunt you reveal more about who you are than your successes ever could

The loss of identity with chronic illness is an inevitable trauma experienced with a new diagnosis. Here's how to regain your self-worth.