Hello and Happy New Year!
Now that we’ve managed to get through the craziness of the holidays, we can focus on the new year, new goals, and new tactics to manage your health challenges. Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Are you tired of your health condition(s) taking over your life? Are you feeling as if there’s no hope of improvement of your personal health challenges?
You’re not alone. These feelings are not only common amongst people like us who battle chronic illness on a daily basis, but they are also markedly increased during this time of year. This is for a variety of reasons, some of which include the inability to get out if you live in cold weather climates, which can lead to a feeling of being even more isolated from friends, family, or even people in general.
Fear not, for one of the focuses this year will be to focus on things we can do to mitigate those feelings, and improve our overall physical, and yes even mental health. No, I’m not about to tout the latest wonder drug for a particular illness or condition. What I plan to share over the course of this year are some simple items that you can undertake in order to empower yourself with positive ways in which you can control how you respond to the challenges you may be facing.
Mind you, there is no one single strategy, tool, or even medication that will necessarily cure each and every one of us regardless of our individual health challenge, even if we were miraculously all facing the same exact challenges. We are all individuals, and as such we each receive, interpret, and implement even the same exact tool, technique, or treatment in varying ways with varying degrees of success. As a result I encourage each and every one to not get discouraged if one or more of these suggestions do not seem to work for you.
First it is important to remember that many things, including medication that offers a cure, take time to work. Do you quit a medication the first few days you take it if you don’t immediately feel better? I highly doubt you do, and if you do you will certainly never achieve acceptable results or improvement as you didn’t give it a chance. Try a technique, treatment, or tool and take notes of how you felt after trying it. Document your journey. In this way you can honestly gauge how you feel after giving sufficient time to see if a technique works for you or not.
In addition to sharing tools to aid you in managing your overall health and well-being we hope to be able to meet with professionals in order to share insights into various treatment programs that may exist for those with a particular condition or illness. There are a great many programs that exist that even some professional practitioners in the healthcare field may not even know exist.
We also hope to gather more insights from you, the visitors to the site. Are you aware of a tip, trick, or tool that helped you personally? Reach out to us via the contact us page, and let’s see if it is something we could share with others. Have you attended a particular program or clinic that helped you with your ability to manage life with your chronic illness? Write to us and share it with us so that others can also learn about the availability of such programs.
Above all else, remember that There is Always Hope!
Let’s make 2018 our best year yet by supporting each other, sharing our experiences with each other, and improving how we manage our day-to-day lives while trying to decrease the negative effects on us, our loved ones, our families, and our friends.
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