Tag: the trifecta

• My body is ripping apart at the seams but at least my dog is doing great!

  

  My baby girl is making me so proud with the progress she has been making! The last couple weeks she has seemed to TAKE OFF in her self regulation skills, which has always been the root of and largest piece of our challenges since day one! We have finally started to be able to co-sleep…

  Dani

  September 23, 2024

  aisling, all topics, animal care, animal hospice work, disability, mental health, chronic illness, & neurodiversity, ehlers danlos & the trifecta, epilepsy / seizures, grief, medical grief, medical updates, service dogs, sorrel, the grief of loss

  aisling, disability, grief, service dogs, sorrel, the trifecta

• In defense of “un-joyful” movement, and the demoralization of “personal choice” : (part 1)

  

  When a doctor decides to talk about my weight, exercise, or diet, I know I have to remain aware that systemic, medicalized fatphobia will likely impact even the most self-aware doctor out there. This fact made me extremely aversive to trusting and following any advice I was given about my weight and adjacent factors. I…

  Dani

  February 2, 2024

  all topics, disability, mental health, chronic illness, & neurodiversity, eating disorders, ehlers danlos & the trifecta, harm reduction, main works, medical trauma

  chronic illness, disability, eating disorders, Ehlers Danlos, medical trauma, the trifecta

• September 12th, 2023 – kitchen sink soup

  

  I make a lot of “kitchen sink” type dishes – I rarely follow an exact recipe and am always trying to experiment, especially if I have excess ingredients I need to use up quickly. This is a butternut squash soup I made! I roasted all my ingredients in a sheet pan for easy, hands-off work.…

  Dani

  September 12, 2023

  all topics, ARFID, eating disorders, ehlers danlos & the trifecta, kitchenwork

  ARFID, chronic illness, disability, Ehlers Danlos, food, kitchenwork, neurodiversity, paralytic ileus, the trifecta

• My Body My Box – why some people may gravitate towards “labels”(and some may not!)

  

  “…my full diagnosis list is a relatively lengthy 30+ conditions that have been diagnosed by healthcare providers. It looks daunting, even more so if you want to get nit-picky and split every symptom that could be its own condition from its correlated diagnosis. Even when I try to pare it down as best I can,…

  Dani

  June 13, 2023

  all topics, ARFID, disability, mental health, chronic illness, & neurodiversity, eating disorders, ehlers danlos & the trifecta, main works, medical trauma, published works

  chronic illness, disability, Ehlers Danlos, medical trauma, neurodiversity, the trifecta