Five Tips for Establishing & Maintaining Healthy Boundaries
March 1, 2012
By Guest Blogger
One of the most common questions I am asked as a mental health professional and someone living with and healing from a “chronic and progressive” neurological disease, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (RSD/CRPS), is how to establish, maintain and enforce (when needed) healthy interpersonal boundaries. This topic is especially important when one is living with chronic, acute and/or terminal illness because unhealthy interpersonal relationships and stressful life events can flare up and even aid… Read More >
5 Lessons Hospice Taught Me About Living
June 30, 2011
By Guest Blogger
I cannot tell you how many times I have been asked, “How can you work in a hospice and be sick yourself? Isn’t it awful?” For those of you who don’t know, I have been living with and trying to heal from a chronic illness, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (RSD/CRPS), for the last six years. I took a second year clinical internship for my master’s degree in a hospice for that precise reason… Read More >
Health Challenges: Ten Tips for Happiness
June 9, 2010
By Guest Blogger
By Maria Mooney Over the past five years, my illness evolution has unfolded exactly the way it was meant to unfold, and I have thoroughly enjoyed the process, admittedly becoming impatient at times. My diagnosis of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy/Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (RSD/CRPS) has been my greatest gift, my teacher, and my master, bringing me closer to my core self, others, and a higher power. I received the message loud and clear in the form of… Read More >
