Embracing our Imperfections

Is your goal to better manage your symptoms and to shift the relationship you have with your pain and/or chronic illness? Do you want to have an identity outside of your illness?

Sign up for the Embracing our
Imperfections Online Class Today.

I have over two decades of experience navigating the challenges that come with living with and parenting to chronic illness which led to creating the Embracing our Imperfections course!

Throughout my medical journey I’ve gained a wealth of knowledge and experience from interacting with countless medical specialists and have distilled this knowledge into a short but comprehensive course that provides you with the most vital life skills necessary to help you live a fulfilling life despite your illness.

Through the Embracing our Imperfections course, you will learn how to navigate the complexities of life with illness and acquire skills to help you develop a positive mindset. We do this by learning about how our bodies respond to chronic pain and illness, how we make decisions, how we find peace with the overlapping disorders, acceptance, personal growth and who we want to be outside of our illness.

The format of this course is a combination of short introductory videos, short lesson plans and reflection worksheets. I understand that managing a chronic illness can be challenging, which is why I’ve designed this course to be self-paced so that you can learn and grow when it is most convenient for you.

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EMBRACING OUR IMPERFECTIONS

Online Course – Self Paced

Includes 4 self-paced modules with twelve lessons total. Each module has a brief video introduction, and each lesson includes a self-reflection worksheet that I highly encourage all participants to do.

$349

As my daughter best put it at age fifteen, “most of us living with a chronic illness must learn how to manage financial stress, accepting change, planning, managing appointments, social isolation, learning medical terminology and navigating the healthcare system. These aren’t even the symptoms of your illness!”

Module 1

Lesson 1 – The journey to getting an accurate diagnosis. Understanding our brain as it relates to chronic pain and illness.

Learning to be our own best advocate. Most living with chronic and/or rare disorders have to go through a myriad of appointments, procedures, tests and doctors before they get an accurate diagnosis. This takes patience, self-advocacy and great doctors. Whether you have been through this journey already or are in the process of getting an accurate diagnosis, this course will provide encouragement and remind you that you are not alone.

You will learn about your brain and autonomic nervous system. I will teach you the basics of how the stress of an illness and/or living with chronic pain can change your brain and the way our autonomic nervous system functions.

Lesson 2: Decision making with chronic illness and how to move forward.

Here you will learn how to best make decisions going forward that support your health, both physically and mentally.

Lesson 3: Overlapping disorders and how to find peace during the midst of it all.

Most of us have them, what are they, why do they overlap and how do we manage when it all seems too much.

Lesson 4: Accepting the diagnosis.

Here we will discuss the stages of acceptance and the emotions that come with this process. You will learn how to acquire the art of acceptance and how to handle these emotions as they come.

Module 2

Lesson 1: How to overcome setbacks; my body isn’t working as it should, what now?

Lesson 2: Managing the endless doctor appointments and related stress.

Lesson 3: How do we adapt to receiving bad news and the affects our illness has on family, friends, and work

Module 3

Lesson 1: Changing our perspective and breaking away from negative thinking.

Through acceptance, learning how to embrace your illness.

Lesson 2: Gratitude for all things, even on the bad days.

How to find gratitude even on the bad days.

Lesson 3: Growing and glowing in grace and mercy.

Don’t want to wilt and wither, here you will learn how to grow and glow despite your circumstance.

Module 4

Lesson 1: Our identity is not the illness.

What is our identity and who do we want to be? Here we will be discussing what our values and strengths are, illness and all.

Lesson 2: How to see beyond the illness; managing expectations and worry about the future

We all have fears and doubts about how our bodies will be functioning in the future. Here we will focus on how to see beyond this fear so that we can coexist with our illness while also finding joy in the present.

Lesson 3: Moving forward in acceptance and love for all things, even on the bad days.

Finding strength and purpose in the present and our future.