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Diagnosis Process | This Luscious RA
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Missing My Body’s Signals. Or … Why Patient Awareness is Vital to Improving Autoimmune Arthritis Diagnosis. I thought I was a pretty aware patient. I’m a massage therapist, holistic health coach, and a yogi. I know bodies, and thought I especially knew my own pretty well. But looking back, I missed some signals. Now that all may in fact be true … but lately I’ve realized that my RA symptoms started long. Before I even noticed them. Why did I realize this? As well as lifestyle and nutrition changes. W...
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Challenges & Frustrations | This Luscious RA
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That’s the word rolling around in my head today … along with a wicked sinus infection. (Whoever says that stress doesn’t make us more susceptible to illness is wrong! So because I am hurting, maybe the word hurts me a little more than it should. It also hurts because I’m the one in the family who has always been especially conscious of making the healthiest possible choices. And yet that’s what we were told yesterday. I am uninsurable. Why does this matter? Then Tuesday night a friend (who also has a pre...
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diagnosis | This Luscious RA
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Missing My Body’s Signals. Or … Why Patient Awareness is Vital to Improving Autoimmune Arthritis Diagnosis. I thought I was a pretty aware patient. I’m a massage therapist, holistic health coach, and a yogi. I know bodies, and thought I especially knew my own pretty well. But looking back, I missed some signals. Now that all may in fact be true … but lately I’ve realized that my RA symptoms started long. Before I even noticed them. Why did I realize this? As well as lifestyle and nutrition changes. W...
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Medications & Treatments | This Luscious RA
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The Importance of Good Venipuncture. This is a short, but vital, post. If you’re anything like me, you’ve had more than your lifetime’s share of needle sticks. Chronic pain / illness patients get a lot of blood drawn, right? Well, I’ve been getting blood drawn at my family practice doc’s office for the last few years. But the last time one of their nurses drew my blood, I had a 3″ x 2″ bruise AND a huge lump! Instead, I decided to do what I had done some years ago. I decided to make friends with some...
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Business Coaching for Women Coaches and Consultants. Helping coaches, consultants and small business owners speak their way to more clients. COACHING & PROGRAMS. 8221; I have landed the biggest clients I have ever had”. Here is what really happened, the floodgates opened, I learned where I was stepping on my own toes and have stopped. I am getting standing ovations when I give this new version of my talk, I have landed the biggest clients I have ever had, I have booked paid speaking engagements. I knew b...
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feelings | This Luscious RA
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Three Year Anniversary: what are some of my “secrets? This week marks three years since my RA diagnosis. And I’ve been tossing around some thoughts lately. 2012 has been a rough year in so many ways, and as time progresses and the stressors don’t change, I can see how much that stress affects me. I also have had a couple of people ask me lately to share what keeps me going … strategies that help me stay feeling well. Same goes for swimsuit-related self-consciousness …). I have a much lower stress career ...
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The Write Direction - Finding Happiness in the Midst of Chronic Pain
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My Book (Kindle Version). 126; Finding Happiness in the Midst of Chronic Pain ~. Photo by Alex Aronoff. There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts,. But the tongue of the wise brings healing. Ginny hugged her books tightly to her chest taking a slight step back with every angry word that Lindsey shot at her. You’re a HORRIBLE friend, you take advantage of everyone! You never show up to stuff like you say you will, so no one can count on you. I swear you are SO selfish! What did I do? She called...
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