Blog Articles by Month: October 2016

Rewrites Suck

Oh, hi there! I miss you. I want to write blog posts, but am yet again stuck in editing hell. I am really excited about this next book. You didn’t know I was writing a book? It has come together kind of quickly and I am having a great time. Well, I had a great…

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How to Nurture Self-Worth When You’re Not Working Because of a Chronic Illness

Work is an important — even essential — contributor to self-worth. But what do you do if you cannot work because of a chronic illness or disability? I take a look at this issue and share tips on building self-esteem without work in my new post for HealthCentral: “‘What do you do?’ It is often…

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Don’t Let the Flu Send You to the ICU

In my new post for Mango Health, I revisit the medical adventure and some of the factors that brought me to the ICU: “In early March, I got the flu. For the first five days, it was pretty miserable, but it was just the flu. And then things got interesting. The influenza went to town…

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