by Missy O | Jun 21, 2024 | Disability
If you have a chronic illness, you may have heard the term pacing before. If you’ve been around long enough, you may have even tried to implement it. While thinking about pacing is easy, putting it into practice is harder. Mastering pacing can transform your life from...
by Missy O | Jun 14, 2024 | Disability
The first hope most spoonies have when they get a diagnosis is that when the doctor figures out the diagnosis, they can make a full recovery. The truth of the matter is that full recoveries are a lot of hard work and time, if they are possible at all. But it is...
by Missy O | Jun 4, 2024 | Disability
As much as we want to control our environment, times come where we need to embrace change. Whether moving to a different home or going on a trip, packing is a task that is unavoidable. While packing can be exhausting, there are ways to budget your spoons better to...
by Missy O | May 28, 2024 | Disability
Spring is ending soon and if you’re like me, the change in weather comes with a desire to make your surrounding space better. Maybe it’s the expectations of spring cleaning, maybe it’s my minimalist tendencies, but regardless, I thought I’d share some of my tips for...
by Missy O | May 21, 2024 | Disability
One of my first coping strategies I learned was making my life function out of a single bag. The bag in question I started with was my school backpack. I didn’t have to worry about my ADHD forgetting homework if my homework lived in my bag when I wasn’t working on it....
