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Sabotaging Your Health?
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mpratt
You’re upset over a new diagnosis, and you reach for the package of cookies. You know you shouldn’t eat them; your blood sugar’s been like a roller coaster lately. But it’s as if you’re on auto-pilot. Upset + availability of cookies = inevitable. Or, you’re so lonely that you’ll jump at any invitation to go out,…
Feeling Like a Failure?
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mpratt
At some point in a life with chronic illness and pain, we feel as if we’ve failed. Failed at keeping healthier. Failed at following doctor’s orders. Failed at relationships. Failed at life. No matter how many reassurances we get from friends and family, and no matter how much we tell ourselves that there are “extenuating…
Are You Ever Sorry?
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mpratt
Chronic illness and pain are, well, pains to live with. There are times when we’re angry, snappish, out of sorts. Sometimes, even if we’re at a happy celebration, our conditions can get in the way of feeling completely integrated into the occasion. And, sometimes, in our discomfort, disappointment, pain and angst, we hurt others. It’s…
Palm Sunday for Us
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mpratt
In the Catholic Church, Palm Sunday is also Passion Sunday, and the gospel reading is about the Lord’s arrest, crucifixion and death on the cross. It is hard to hear about how Jesus suffered, and even harder to imagine someone so dedicated to love being so reviled. But it is also amazing to hear of…
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