Beautifully Broken

Good evening my Readers. I hope tonight finds you having a low pain evening. In addition, being able to kick back and just relax. Therefore, I am going to throw out a question for you. Do you ever feel guilty for having this illness? Do you ever beat yourselves up for not being who you think you should be .Maybe you think you should be a   better mom to your children, a better spouse , a better daughter or son, or a better friend. I think it’s safe to say, we all have felt this way at one time or another. The Ugly monster of guilt likes to attach itself to us and make us feel, even worse than we already do!   We all know there are stages of grief, when you   experience any kind of loss .I can speak from experience that even though I’ve come to a point in my own journey that I’ve accepted   what is, and I don’t let it define me. I still have moments when the guilt creeps back into my thoughts and I get so angry at myself. I hate IC, I hate all chronic illness a...

  Good evening readers, its Natalie again, I feel like I am talking to an old friend. Tonight’s topic is “Tranquility” and I find tranquility in writing, it gives my heart joy and it gives me the opportunity to step outside of my circumstances and focus on you… the reader….Writing is my comfortable familiar.   I feel like were chatting over hot coco, ohhh that sound so yummy about now. My prayer is you find some form of tranquility in reading my blog, that even for a moment, you can step outside of what you feel and   let your mind take you away, away to a place where there is no pain, and tears are not known.   This entry is not just for those who have IC or Fibro, but also for all chronic pain patients. I’m in pain as I write this, as I know so many of you are right there with me feeling it wish I could reach through this screen and hug you it don’t matter if I know you or not, we are bonded with ties that   cannot   come undone.   Ive rea...