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 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 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...
by Kit Caelsto | Dec 26, 2022 | chronic wellness, Wellness Tips
We’re coming into the time of year when the fitness equipment goes on sale at Walmart and the commercials change from holiday jingles to discounts as chain gyms. The new year rolls around and when people wake up next weekend, they’ll start thinking about...
by Kit Caelsto | Dec 11, 2022 | chronic wellness, emotions and feelings, physical fitness
CW: Disordered eating, bullying, I look at the picture of the little girl (who so really desperately wanted to be a boy) in the photograph and I just start crying. There’s so much I wish she could have known. The first and foremost that there are words for...
by Kit Caelsto | Nov 27, 2022 | chronic wellness, health, mental health
Although I’ve lived with a chronic illness, and a medically abandoned one at that, for two decades now, I read something on Twitter the other day that’s stuck with me. The gist of the post was that for those of us with chronic illness (and I’d argue...