I really appreciate you and your ability to eloquently capture what living with a chronic illness can feel like. As I walk through my healing journey I crave hearing, reading, seeing how others carry this weight. I totally make decisions based off of how I knew my able body of the past and I too have come to realize (via therapist) that the grief stage gives way to acceptance, though at the moment they feel blurred together. Thank you for sharing your experience and shedding light on the journey to know yourself; to know your 'new' self.
Aw thank you for this, Madison. The blurring together that you're feeling is almost like a rite of passage. It took me many years to arrive at a place of acceptance, and even now I still have my days/weeks when I revisit earlier stages of grief. It's a lifelong process. The fact that you might feel even slightly less alone in your experience after reading this means the world to me. Thanks for following along <3
I really appreciate you and your ability to eloquently capture what living with a chronic illness can feel like. As I walk through my healing journey I crave hearing, reading, seeing how others carry this weight. I totally make decisions based off of how I knew my able body of the past and I too have come to realize (via therapist) that the grief stage gives way to acceptance, though at the moment they feel blurred together. Thank you for sharing your experience and shedding light on the journey to know yourself; to know your 'new' self.
Aw thank you for this, Madison. The blurring together that you're feeling is almost like a rite of passage. It took me many years to arrive at a place of acceptance, and even now I still have my days/weeks when I revisit earlier stages of grief. It's a lifelong process. The fact that you might feel even slightly less alone in your experience after reading this means the world to me. Thanks for following along <3