This will be my first Mother’s Day as a mom, and I am bursting with thoughts and feelings. So much work, energy, healing, and luck went into making this possible. I have been open about my journey of motherhood with chronic illness – my fears of not being able to conceive, but also of getting pregnant and […]
I taught for years in alternative schools and found that too often the students found themselves in my programs because their needs were simply not being met in school. For many, it was because they didn’t quite know what their needs even were. Some were on the cusp of a medical diagnosis, were working through […]
Being sick is hard. There are many times when I look at my life, at all the joys I’ve had to forgo and the thankless work I put in to simply make it through the day, and I wish I could change it all. I wish I could have energy, that I could eat whatever […]
One of the best perks of working with other chronic patients is the authenticity of conversations that come up around the products we create. Nothing makes me feel so seen and valued like hearing my lived experience from someone else’s mouth! This struck me recently at a brainstorming session about Mighty Well’s newest product, the […]