First Revive, Then Thrive: 5 Core Pillars
Find Your Voice
- Learn how to talk to loved ones about your diagnosis in a way that INCLUDES them rather than EXCLUDING yourself.
- Gain confidence in talking to your boss, coworkers, or HR to get the support you need at work.
- Be able to say NO and create boundaries without feeling guilty or being seen as unreliable.
- Feel empowered to open up about your illness and know that you’ll be accepted.
So that you can finally communicate your needs, feel understood, and have closer relationships WHILE supporting your health.
Embrace Self-Trust
- Uncover and validate the anger, grief, guilt, and shame that come with having a chronic condition.
- Stop feeling consumed by those emotions and start experiencing happiness and joy again.
- Stop disassociating from your body and learn to feel comfortable in your own skin.
So that you can be present in your life, honor how you’re feeling in the moment instead of always anticipating, and know that you’ll be able to handle whatever comes.
Rekindle Your Energy
- Discover where your energy leaks are coming from.
- Develop proactive strategies to direct your energy where you want it to be — instead of constantly having to cancel, reschedule, and juggle at the last minute because you are drained and in pain.
- Regain confidence in making plans and knowing you’ll have the energy to keep them most of the time so that when you do need to cancel you don’t feel so guilty.
So that you can shift from constant energy-scarcity to feeling renewed, cared for, and in control.
Build Balance
- Learn which appointments to say no to.
- Understand how to educate providers so they can better serve you.
- Build a care team that actually supports you instead of sending you to endless appointments with no concrete results.
- Assess which specialists, exams, and appointments are actually worth your time and energy.
- Integrate the necessary and helpful appointments into your life without taking it over.
So that you can spend LESS time at the doctor’s office, feel exponentially less drained, gain confidence in and control of your care plan, and stop dreading the medical system.
Live Life on Your Terms
- Make decisions (both big and small) based on what you ACTUALLY want rather than what you feel you “should” do.
- Let go of perfectionism around meeting arbitrary expectations.
- Discover new possibilities for living in harmony with your condition that you didn’t even know existed.
So that you have the FREEDOM to care for yourself AND be happy at the same time.