My Life Works Today!

Knowing how stress and creativity tends to negatively interact, I realized today just how out of control my days have become lately. A dear friend of mine, and one of the MLWT Advisory team members, Douglas Franklin, recently gave me a homework assignment in researching my signature strengths often used in learning about authentic happiness and the evolving field of Positive Psychology. Being a...

How often have you heard others, some well-meaning and some not, say that you need to look more on the "brighter side of life"? There is a great deal to living with lupus, or any illness, than just changing your perspective, changing your behaviors or just putting on that happy face when you're around someone. When you have your health, its so much easier to play the role you are expected to...

As I read Rosalind's (aka cicoach) latest blog entry (http://workingwithchronic illness.com/) about a Hollywood producer, I couldn't help but notice some points that we will be applying to our blog topics this week. First, Rosalind's words expressed a tone - what seemed to be a sense of frustration and confusion that resolved into gratitude and purpose. Writing our thoughts down has long been...

So often we forget that, even though Lupus tends to affect women most often, there are many men who are facing the same challenges. In fact, lupus can sometimes be even more severe for men in terms of symptoms and coping. Although it isn't easy for some of us women to ask for help or accept the changes in our lives, men are often inclined to prefer not to acknowledge or seek support in this...

As we have been working on getting the site foundation set, we have been meeting and learning from so many individuals with strong, encouraging and inspiring stories. Recently, I heard from Leslie (http://gettingclosertomys elf.blogspot.com/ ) who's story was similar to my own with one exception being that she has had to live with illness (lupus and R.A) at an earlier age than I did. I can only...

We wanted to be sure and note for all of you that the Events Calendar on our blog shows the Portland Lupus Symposium is still scheduled to be held tomorrow. As we are knee deep in making some changes here, the event changes will have to be posted in the blog until we get things revised. As mentioned in our previous post on May 14th, there will NOT be a symposium here in Portland tomorrow (May 7th)...

As this month of awareness-building winds down for skin cancer, fibromyalgia, lupus, etc., we being to ponder the question: now what? Being informed or aware of lupus gives us a sense of camaraderie- sharing the challenges in our lives with other silent soldiers. We spend a great deal of energy ( energy we don't always have available) in trying to educate and console each other as our way...