That’s so kind, Nan. High praise coming from you. Easing myself back on the horse. Read this in the Substack app and you’ll see I left off the last two paragraphs when I sent the email version! Brain cells still not firing!
I love this Lyn. Thank you for sharing very powerful realizations. I've missed you SO MUCH. Can't wait to visit. Your absence from my life during this time was deeply felt. Sending love and a hug. xo
Beautiful piece. This resonates deeply with my own recent experiences of medical limbo and medical trauma. A “clearing” indeed. You really capture what it’s like ❤️🩹
I hope you find some inner peace and recover your mojo.
This time last year I had a sword of Damocles hanging over me with a strong likelihood of an inflammatory arthritis diagnosis and keyhole surgery in my ankle.
I had the surgery. Thankfully it was a no to inflammatory arthritis but a yes to Fibromyalgia (got in summer)
I’ve spent the last 7 months working through who am I now? Has that changed?
My advice is ask yourself “Who am I to become?” And “how can I take parts of my ‘old’ identity and use them to help refind your purpose going forward?”
I’ve just started writing about my journey with Fibro as a substack publication.
Thanks, Heather. Great advice here. And I agree about the pieces — the pieces you want to carry forward becomemuch more evident as we let go of the rest.
"clearing" : you put a name on a thing, a condition, a state of being. Thank you for finding the word and others to describe the experience of disorientation and perhaps, inshallah, reorientation. Feel better!
That’s so kind, Nan. High praise coming from you. Easing myself back on the horse. Read this in the Substack app and you’ll see I left off the last two paragraphs when I sent the email version! Brain cells still not firing!
I love this Lyn. Thank you for sharing very powerful realizations. I've missed you SO MUCH. Can't wait to visit. Your absence from my life during this time was deeply felt. Sending love and a hug. xo
Thanks, Maureen. Let's connect sometime soon.
Slowly but surely, Sheila. Thanks.
Beautiful piece. This resonates deeply with my own recent experiences of medical limbo and medical trauma. A “clearing” indeed. You really capture what it’s like ❤️🩹
Thanks, Sara.
I hope you find some inner peace and recover your mojo.
This time last year I had a sword of Damocles hanging over me with a strong likelihood of an inflammatory arthritis diagnosis and keyhole surgery in my ankle.
I had the surgery. Thankfully it was a no to inflammatory arthritis but a yes to Fibromyalgia (got in summer)
I’ve spent the last 7 months working through who am I now? Has that changed?
My advice is ask yourself “Who am I to become?” And “how can I take parts of my ‘old’ identity and use them to help refind your purpose going forward?”
I’ve just started writing about my journey with Fibro as a substack publication.
Thanks, Heather. Great advice here. And I agree about the pieces — the pieces you want to carry forward becomemuch more evident as we let go of the rest.
May your recovery continue.
Hope your road to recovery continues!
"clearing" : you put a name on a thing, a condition, a state of being. Thank you for finding the word and others to describe the experience of disorientation and perhaps, inshallah, reorientation. Feel better!
I'm much better, Carol -- thank you, albeit a bit chastened -- and wiser.
L.
Sometimes wisdom comes at a cost! But at least it comes ....