When there are a number of things that are feeling raw and exposed, where to start?
We have conflict in my marriage over where I spend my time and energy when I have some to give.
If I think about my energy like the bars in a battery, I have to be judicious about how to use my energy bars.
The decisions I make about my energy, have impacts on and implications for my wife.
Should I use my energy helping around the house?  Being intimate with her?
When I make decisions about my energy without including her, I take those decisions away from her.
Communicating together rather than unilaterally deciding is part of our "bare root" work.

Episode 265: Chronic Disease Awareness

Are you one of the millions living with a chronic illness or pain?  Our diseases may be very different, but we have many of the same experiences, obstacles and frustrations.   We are all working for a better quality of life knowing that pain and limitations will be our traveling companions.  My name is Annette and I'm the host of Chronic Wellness, a brief, weekly, podcast where we talk about it all: sex, self-care, mental heath, loss of identity, anger, how to navigate health care and have less days that suck so hard.

I have this belief that: If health is the absence of disease, and wellness is the presence of wholeness;  whether or not I'm ever "healthy" again, I can work work toward my wellness, my wholeness.  

Curious?  Join me where you listen to Podcasts, for a few moments of Chronic Wellness.