Lyme

Happy Tickaversary - Year 7: The Monastery of St. Borrelia and The Existential Crisis

Can I respect everything in its season – winter, exhaustion, rest, grief? Can I honor Sabbath, transition, liminal spaces, unknowing?

Hollowgraphy

Post-Coronial dystopia

Skipping Christmas (And Loving Jesus)

Why I Don't Celebrate (If I Don't Want To)

Happy Tickaversary - Year 6: Re-Mission

What remission from chronic Lyme is NOT is a sudden restoration to 100% health. A new life is here. And there’s no road map. Now what?

Where's The Poop, Robin? (Part 1)

My Lyme Story: For all the talk of finding the root cause, are we never getting to it: belief systems that perpetuate stress and fear?

Where's The Poop, Robin? (Part 2)

My Lyme Story: The Mind-Body connection deserves a more prominent look in the causes of chronic illness. Are we hiding the key to healing?

Where's The Poop, Robin? (Part 3)

My Lyme Story: How deep does this go? Is Chronic Lyme just the tip of a much bigger iceberg?

Where's The Poop, Robin? (Part 4)

My Lyme Story: Here I had it - the brain region responsible for all my problems, past and present. ADD, Depression, psychiatric Lyme

Where's The Poop, Robin? (Part 5)

My Lyme Story: Total Depravity. With a mind like that, how could I NOT get an illness that destroys the entire body? Total Autoimmunity.

Where's The Poop, Robin? (Part 6)

If we were raised in a culture of "No Pain, No Gain" or "suffering with Christ", how could we ever accept self-care and rest for healing?

"Yes, and...": Counting All Joy, On One Middle Finger

In my mental health and trauma work, I’ve come to accept the very necessary concept of non-dualistic thinking; yin and yang, "yes, and"

Happy Tickaversary - Year 5: The Weight and the Waste

I’m in a new territory – the “Remission Purgatory” as I call it. A space in between sick and healthy.

The First-and-a-Half Commandment

Hating yourself will literally destroy your brain and body with illness. Hating your self will destroy your view of God and love for others

When God Shows Up

If I want to heal, know God, and be restored sevenfold, what should I expect but a whirlwind? When God sends a plague, it sets people free.

Happy Tickaversary - Year 4

I can’t believe it’s “only” been 4 years since the “Summer of the Ticks.” It seems like a lifetime ago. In many ways it was – I am a...

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