Grief Stories #7: dSavannah on living with, and managing the grief of ME and chronic illness 

Thank you for this conversation. Not only is grieving discouraged, but then the griever is chastised for having a negative attitude and thus perpetuating their illness. Wishing you all the best, dSavannah.

And for the interviewer, I am so grateful to have found this page in the middle of the night having a bad pain night…THANK YOU for what you are doing❣️❣️❣️‼️‼️‼️💚💚💚

Great conversation! I appreciated the description of the immense work of trying to get medical care and hearing you talk about the small worlds we live in and our often, for lack of better words, mundane activities and accomplishments…(Reading poems, folding laundry…) I love Brianne Benness’s work and

Thank you SO MUCH for this interview‼️The not able to read the not being able to travel to the same place I have relatives the loss of work you love the not being able to type A organize anymore the symptoms all your life you worked through until you couldn’t and my couldn’t anymore year was 2013…from being diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis at 13 which I now know was the beginnings of my fibromyalgia and have had ME since I was bedridden from Mononucleosis for the entire first semester of 10th grade…learning how my multiple chronic illnesses interact…I HATE you dealing with all of that at the same time I am feeling so seen heard and validated💚💔❣️😭The rage anger isolation grief…and fear. I am alone with no support and about to lose my home…and still grateful always💚🙏🏽❣️

Wow this is my favourite episode so far!! This lady is great and we have a few things in common. The journal idea is fantastic. I do a sort of gratitude journal. Every day i only write good things in it. Try for three but some days it's just one. Sometimes it's a real struggle to find things and can be very basic. But it's valuable for me. I wrote down that grief quote, it's so true! I know you said you don't want to offer advice but a video at the end of this series with practical ideas would be really valuable. I know you could address that really well. Happy new year from nz. ❤

A gratitude journal is always a good idea. But I feel like what I need more is an Ungrateful Bitch journal. For grief.