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Like so many of us, receiving a diagnosis took some time for me as well. When I was about eleven or twelve years old I started getting pain in my...

Ten years ago, I became a mom. Three years into those ten, my oldest son was diagnosed with autism. It was not a shocking diagnosis, but it was a life-changing...

As a duo of a Life Coach (Julie) and a Health Coach (Lana), we have decided to write a series of articles together. We want to share our stories with...

Struggling with inflammatory arthritis, I have days where I feel okay and days I don’t. It’s important to tune in to my body and its energy level daily to take...

Before I get into the details of my trip, I just want to say I went on this reset trip back in November, when the virus wasn’t spreading as bad...

I received my vaccine on a Wednesday, and by the evening, I was already feeling sick. I had a headache, fever, and hot and cold sweats. Overall, I felt weak...

One of the things that we talk about the least when it comes to ankylosing spondylitis is the sheer mental exhaustion. Obviously, fatigue is all-encompassing, which means it takes over...

Auldyn and Keegan are no strangers to the difficulties of traveling with ankylosing spondylitis. Traveling can get even more complicated when you're with extended family members who may not understand...

Sometimes I feel like the number of ways AxSpA can affect my body are endless. It’s extremely discouraging. But as a systemic disease, the truth of the matter is that...

A lifelong people-pleaser, I've always tended to be polite and agreeable in an effort to make others comfortable. When a problem arises, my instinct is to figure things out for...

Sitting with injection needles, alcohol cleansing wipes, and cute band-aids… Taking deep breaths and hyping yourself up to prick your skin and let your medication infiltrate your body… Dumping the...

My husband, Keegan, walked with a limp for a long time before he was diagnosed with AxSpa. I remember one night he dragged his leg from where our car was...

Recently, we featured a giveaway promotion of a cane in our weekly newsletter. One of our members brought to our attention that the subject line of our newsletter using a...

When you google AS there is a specific number of symptoms and a definition of what you should feel like. This is incorrect; it is different for everyone. For example, one girl I met...

The Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross popularized the common understanding that humans process grief and loss in stages in her 1969 book On Death and Dying. Kübler-Ross revised her vision throughout her...

I had the most transformative and bizarre and horrible month of March. When Shakespeare's soothsayer warns Julius Caesar, "Beware the Ides of March," the phrase was born and tumbled through...

As the pandemic shows signs of finally drawing to a close, people are talking about what life will be like when things go back to “normal” — how strange it...

Let me just tell you something...It’s hard to be this awesome all the time! I wake up awesome, I go to work awesome, I eat my meals, and go to...

As a duo of a Life Coach (Julie) and a Health Coach (Lana), we have decided to write a series of articles together. We want to share our stories with...

After 16 years of living with a dynamic disability, I am only just scraping the surface of learning what it means to me. Coping with pain is difficult for anyone...