Do What You Can

When I started this blog with the new theme, I expected to be actively fighting sex trafficking. Having survived four years of living in my sneakers and child sexual abuse from toddlerhood, God has brought me so far; from uttermost to uttermost. Yesterday, I received...

When I Fight With Everything

It’s been one of those days. Every inanimate object is my enemy today. I haven’t even seen any people yet; not even a digital interaction and I am frustrated and exhausted. I wake up in pain. That’s just my life with Lyme, but some days...

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

In the work of healing, there are often setbacks. As I write and compare living with Lyme Disease to living with the traumatic experiences of child sexual abuse and child sex trafficking, I’m struck at the incredible similarities. Lyme is nebulous. There is currently no...

Have You Heard of a Recovery Graph?

My doctor drew this graph for me. I thought you might relate. Recovery from any kind of stress or trauma is really the same. Once free from abuse, we think it will be easy, but that’s not usually the case. We are fearfully and wonderfully...

5 Ways to Navigate a Rough Road

Everyone’s got stuff, right? Everyone who knows me, has heard me say that. The fact that I have had a fair amount of difficulty in my life makes me a little more compassionate for the suffering of others. There are ways to navigate the rough...

Medicate, Mask or Master

I have Lyme disease. Sometimes I medicate, which may alleviate the symptoms at the root or it may just mask them. Other things are under my direct control. My diet and supplements affect pain levels and disability or ability, as the case might be. In...

Are You Pro-life or a Pro-life Speaker?

Advocates are important, but without tangible help, words become a clanging cymbal and an irritation. I speak often about the value of every human life. I believe, with all my heart, that our Creator wants to have a personal relationship with each of us individually....

How Do You Stay Positive?

I have been sick off and on for as long as I can remember. Disseminated joint pain, severe fatigue, stomach aches, head aches and essentially feeling like someone with a twisted sense of humor is holding a voodoo doll with my name on it, varying...

Treating Symptoms vs Curing Disease

My doctor wants to treat the disease, I just want to address the symptoms. I have  written before about the struggles I have with chronic fatigue and pain.  I have been told by doctors for years that there isn’t anything wrong with me physically.  It’s...