Blog Articles About #ChronicChristmas

Chronic Christmas Goes Down Under!

Chronic Christmas has been a little North America-focused. Until now, that is. Thank you so much to Arthritic Chick for my first Australian review! “Lene Andersen describes her new book ‘Chronic Christmas : Surviving the Holidays with a Chronic Illness’ as “an Advent calendar full of self-care tips to help people with chronic illness savour…

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Chronic Illness Advocacy and the Holidays — #ChronicChristmas on WEGO Health

Once an advocate, always an advocate… Creating awareness for and about chronic illness is a year-round job. In my new guest post for WEGO Health, I share tips for how you can include some subtle advocacy for your condition during the holiday season: “Advocating for chronic illness is a year-round job, one we do with…

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How to Enjoy the Holidays with Chronic Illness — #ChronicChristmas on CreakyJoints

I used to contribute posts to CreakyJoints and was very happy to be part of the community. Alas, when my workload increased, something had to give. I’ve missed that community, which is why I was thrilled when they asked me to write a guest post about the holidays and chronic illness (and perhaps mention Chronic…

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How Hygge Can Help You Cope with the Stress of Chronic Illness

To help you and your family hygge this season, take a look at The Danish Way of Parenting’s hygge oath.    

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Chronic Christmas Giveaway on A Rheumful of Tips

Marianna a.k.a. the genius behind A Rheumful of Tips has kindly written a review of Chronic Christmas: Surviving the Holidays with a Chronic Illness: “Chronic Christmas: Surviving the Holidays with a Chronic Illness by Lene Andersen is an advent calendar-style book that is brimming with common-sense and humour, and is also infused with personal stories…

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Thoughts on Advent Calendars, Chronic Illness, and Holiday Stress

Updated November 29, 2021 And so it begins. When I was a child, we would start every day in December by lighting an Advent candle. It cast a warm glow over the breakfast table, contrasting with the darkness outside the windows. In Denmark, so much of December is so very dark. Burning down the space…

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Chronic Christmas on RheumatoidArthritis.net

Reading a review of the book you’ve written is always a nerve-racking moment. It doesn’t matter if you know the reviewer and figure they’re not going to cut you to shreds because they are a nice person. It is still a nerve-racking experience. Mariah Leach of From This Point. Forward has written a review of…

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4 Ways to Use Respect and Dignity in Caregiving for Chronic Illness

When you have a chronic illness — or know someone who does — help can be part of your relationship. More commonly, the word caregiving is used when there is an element of caring for someone who has physical limitations, such as chronic illness. Giving and receiving care is much more than just the physical act…

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The Gift of the Holiday Season

I am (seasonally appropriate) so grateful for the incredible support my HealthCentral family is giving me and Chronic Christmas: Surviving the Holidays with a Chronic Illness! David Mendosa of the HealthCentral Diabetes site reviewed my new book and asked some insightful questions about it: “ If you have a chronic illness that limits your activity,…

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Chronic Christmas on RADiabetes

You’ve heard me mention the amazing Rick Phillips before — he is the man behind #RABlog Week, an important addition to the RA conversation, now in its second year. And he was kind enough to review Chronic Christmas: Surviving the Holidays with a Chronic Illness: “I was so excited to hear about Chronic Christmas Surviving…

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Chronic Christmas Goodies

I’ve mentioned before how very much I love the cover for my new book Chronic Christmas: Surviving the Holidays with a Chronic Illness. It makes me giggle. It makes other people giggle. So I decided to have some fun with it and created a pile of products using elements of the image. Best of all,…

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Chronic Christmas on Cateepoo’s blog

I develop traditions easily. In fact, I’ve been known to say that if I do something twice and I like it, it’s tradition. This means that it’s now tradition that I start my blog tours for a new book on Cathy’s blog. Hopefully, she’ll think that’s fun, too. Just before the weekend, Cathy posted her…

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