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Strengthen Your Relationship with Your Body With These Six Blogs

Strengthen Your Relationship with Your Body With These Six Blogs

Having a strong relationship to your body helps your health holistically. It helps you tune into your physical and your emotional needs, and tend to them consciously and intentionally. But getting there isn’t an easy journey and it can be hard to know where to start. These six blogs are our starting point for you if you’re looking to strengthen your relationship to your body.

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What Does it Mean to Engage in Self Care When You’re Chronically Ill?
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What Does it Mean to Engage in Self Care When You’re Chronically Ill?

While self soothing often focuses on things that make you feel good in the moment, self care is more about the long term maintenance of your wellbeing. It can mean using up a lot of energy, both physical and mental, which is something chronically ill people don’t usually have in excess.  So how can you realistically engage in self care when you’re also managing a chronic illness?

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How to Be There for A Friend with Chronic Pain
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How to Be There for A Friend with Chronic Pain

If you don’t experience chronic pain, it can be hard to understand just how much it can impact someone’s life. While for most people, pain is unusual, a sign that something needs to be tended to immediately, for folks who manage chronic pain, it is a constant state. If you’re looking for ways to support a loved one with chronic pain, here are 6 ways to be there for them.

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