by Kit Caelsto | Feb 5, 2023 | anti-fat bias, chronic wellness, mental health, neurodivergence
One of the most important things you can do for your overall wellness is to think about your internalized messages. There are several components to the messages about ourselves that we take to our subconscious, and all of them deserve examining. Doing this work...
by Kit Caelsto | Jan 29, 2023 | emotions and feelings, mental health, Spiritual Thoughts
I’ve lived in the Ozarks for a decade and though I’ve heard stories about days-long power outages (or even ones that last *shudders* for more than a week), I’d never experienced one. As our well runs on electricity, I admit that it was one of my...
by Kit Caelsto | Jan 22, 2023 | chronic wellness, fibromyalgia
I’ve blogged quite a bit about pain and the various ways in affects our sensory perception, as well as visible and invisible pain. The one question I keep coming back to is this: is it possible to find wellness with daily pain? The capitalist “wellness...
by Kit Caelsto | Jan 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
For those in the chronic pain community, getting dismissed by medical professionals, even with serious issues, is commonplace. There’s the belief, widely held, that those of us with chronic pain of a certain type just aren’t strong enough, that it’s...
by Kit Caelsto | Jan 13, 2023 | chronic wellness, fibromyalgia, health, neurodivergence
In the cartoons when a character like Elmer Fudd gets hit on the head a big bump appears, pulsing red, so the viewer knows the character’s head hurts. It’s a comedic element, the bump an obvious sign of the injury (And far more palatable to Saturday...