Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness
How to Stay Sane and Live One Step Ahead of Your Symptoms
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Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness
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Narrated by:
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Lori Prince
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Written by:
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Ilana Jacqueline
About this listen
Popular blogger Ilana Jacqueline offers smart and savvy advice, humor, and practical tips for living with an invisible chronic illness.
Do you live with a chronic, debilitating, yet invisible condition? You may feel isolated, out of step, judged, lonely, or misunderstood - and that's on top of dealing with the symptoms of your actual illness. Take heart. You are not alone, although sometimes it can feel that way.
Written by a blogger who suffers from an invisible chronic illness, Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness offers peer-to-peer support to help you stay sane, be your own advocate, and get back to living your life. This compelling guide is written for anyone suffering with an illness no one can see - such as postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia, multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), Lyme disease, lupus, dysautonomia, or even multiple sclerosis (MS).
This book will tell you everything you need to know about living with a complicated, invisible condition - from how to balance sex, dating, and relationships to handling work and school with unavoidable absences. You'll also learn to navigate judg-y or skeptical relatives and strangers and - most importantly - manage your medical care.
Suffering from a chronic illness doesn't mean you can't live an active, engaged life. This book will show you how.
©2018 Ilana Jacqueline (P)2018 Vibrance PressWhat listeners say about Surviving and Thriving with an Invisible Chronic Illness
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- Annie Blaney
- 2020-10-30
Excellent resource
I loved this book. I think that's a very helpful resource for anyone suffering from a chronic illness in need of needs of ways to improve their quality of life, their ways to go by their day, to accept what they have to live with daily.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-06-12
A Well-Intentioned CBT Fantasia
First-hand books about living with chronic illness are so needed, and there are some nice tidbits in this one. It’s also an unnecessarily chipper take on positivity through illness with facile CBT tips for reframing your attitude. Many of the suggestions for explaining illness and garnering support from family and friends involve a level of emotional and communicative labour that is unrealistic for those low on spoons, and experts are consulted to frame the ableist behaviour of family and friends in excusatory terms. If a hyper-rationalist non-structural perspective is for you, one that jets by the dark twisty experiences in order to arrive at fixes without suitable acknowledgement, so is this title.
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- #Addicted2Amazon
- 2021-07-18
Best book I have ever read
I have and continue reading this book. Now on my 6th time re-reading it. It just makes me feel so good about myself, it helps me on my worst days and reminds me life does go on.
I especially love that it’s read with humour but still very real. I haven’t been able to find another book quite like it. 5+ stars
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