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It's a new day.
Hello all! It's been a long hiatus. Rather than taking up where I left off on Aiming for Grace, this new blog will focus more on ideas around chronic illness and challenges associated with it. I'm...
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The Mental Strain of Making Do With Less - NYTimes.com
This recent New York Times article about Eldar Shafir and Sendhil Mullainathan's new book, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means so Much absolutely blew my mind. It describes beautifully the ongoing...
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Quandary of Hidden Disabilities - Conceal or Reveal? - NYTimes.com
"Discrimination against the disabled is most often an unintended effect of acts or omissions undertaken without considering the impact on people with disabilities. Put bluntly, the problem is not so...
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The Human Trial
2013 Abelcine Documentary Grant - The Human Trial from Vox Pop Films on Vimeo.I found this trailer to a documentary about Type 1 Diabetes, The Human Trial on the OBEY site a couple of months ago. I...
View ArticleIt takes grit to do this well!
Self conrol and the ability to stick to a process or project over the long haul, or grit, as research psychologist Angela Duckworth calls it, seems like a key factor in maintaining good Diabetes...
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art heals.
Art heals. Or at least it reframes the narrative, takes back control of the conversation to some degree, makes it our own. The idea of controlling our own experience with chronic illness continues to...
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