LISTENING IS A HEALING ART

Listening is an art. It requires focus, curiosity…and a great deal of heart. To listen well, to listen actively, you have to ground yourself, harness your own rambling and perseverating thoughts, park your own personal worries and concerns, care genuinely and deeply about the other person, and give them your full and undivided attention––until they…

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THIS IS YOUR BRAIN…ON LYME

The brain is a complicated organ––it is, in fact, the most complex structure within the human body. With one hundred billion nerve cells and a million new connections formed every second of our lives, our brain––with its billions of neurons, synapses, grey matter, white matter, dendrites and axons––is the driving force behind our thoughts, memories,…

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THE ‘SICK SHAMING’ HAS TO STOP!

There is a term in clinical psychology known as gaslighting. Its origins are the 1938 play and 1944 film Gas Light. Gaslighting is “a form of mental abuse in which information is twisted or spun, selectively omitted to favor the abuser, or false information is presented with the intent of making victims doubt their own…

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Life in the rabbit hole

“I fell down the deep, dark rabbit hole of chronic Lyme disease sometime during the summer of 2014. My headlong descent was not by choice. No awakening ever is. Without warning, I was forced into a painful and unending journey into the abyss of a disease I knew nothing about … [one] that had invaded our…

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Time to get loud; time to get heard

Time to get loud; time to get heard For four years now, I have been working hard — every day — to advocate for my son. I have helped him determine the cause of his illness, no thanks to the willful neglect and sheer ignorance of the allopathic medical community. And I have helped him…

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Lyme Madness in a Nutshell

I am often asked ‘WHY’? Why is it so difficult to get treated for Lyme disease? Why don’t we have proper testing? Why do doctors know so little about this illness? Why do we, as Canadians, have to cross the border for treatment? Why do we hear that there are no ticks in this city, province,…

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Lyme and the need for hope

We in the Lyme world have little to depend on but the ever-elusive, hard to hang on to, slippery concept of hope. Proper and reliable testing methods and clinical diagnoses are difficult to come by. There are few doctors who will recognize let alone treat those with chronic Lyme. And when you do find a doctor who says…

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Lyme and outrage are inextricably paired

What is outrage but a powerful, often overwhelming feeling of resentment and anger triggered by what we experience as an injury, an insult, or an injustice. Those of us in the chronic Lyme world are indeed outraged — chronically outraged — Lyme sufferers and advocates alike. Find out more about why we are outraged and how we…

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Calling all media — please do a deep dive

May is Lyme disease awareness month and the media has been doing its job, covering this subject world-over. Lyme sufferers and advocates have been kicking up a serious fuss, protesting, rallying, holding conferences, presenting to congress, engaging politicians, challenging doctors, researchers and scientists, desperately trying to get the world’s attention. Find out how you can…

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Canada – let’s lead the Lyme charge

After a full day and a half of the first ever Canadian Lyme disease conference, I have a few impressions that I feel compelled to share. First and foremost…….Click here to read this full blog post.

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