living with M.E / Chronic illness -invisible illness

🌸 Working Out with Chronic Illness: My Honest Thoughts 🌸 Let’s be real — working out with a chronic illness isn’t about hitting PRs or chasing that “summer body.” For me (and maybe for you too), it’s about surviving, healing, and learning to trust my body again. 🩷 Some days, my “workout” is s

Hospitals are supposed to be where you go when things get bad. But during my most recent hospital stay… I was reminded that thinking simply does NOT apply when you have a chronic illness. 7 weeks after my last IVIG (far too late, thanks insurance… not), after travel, stress, and weather fluctuat

All credit for the images and written content in this post goes to @chronically.char on Instagram. “Red flags for chronically ill people - friendship and relationship edition ❤️‍🩹🚩 I wanted to make this to go along with my green flags I posted a few days ago! ✨ -they don’t accept or try t

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Chronic illness wardrobe: Sweatpants. Hoodies. Repeat. One thing that changes when you live with chronic illness is how much your priorities shift. Before chronic illness, I had actual outfits. Now my wardrobe is basically: sweatpants, different sweatpants, and my nice sweatpants. Buttons,

I spent a week in the hospital with sepsis so I decided to junk journal about it. I love to make art out of my pain it makes everything feel less sucky when I can make something cute. #chronicillness #artist #junkjournaling #scrapbook #messyjournal

Hi Lovely’s! These are some of my low energy activities I do to still get the most of my day while being stuck at home most often due to my chronic illness! All with music of course! Xoxo #chronicillness #chronicallyill #invisibleillness #invisibledisability #gastroparesis

Hey everyone! Before I dive in, I just want to give you a quick TL;DR of my chronic illness journey for context: In September of 2020, I was diagnosed with a chronic illness called Rheumatoid Arthritis after about 8 months of being bed-ridden because of daily low-grade fevers. I had turned 22 i

I don’t usually talk about my health or personal life publicly, but I felt called to share this. If even one person reads it and feels less alone, that’s more than enough for me. Back in 2023, I caught a string of infections that completely tanked my health — and honestly, nothing has really bee

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